Target Practice

Target Practice is a performance lecture that celebrates the history of Pelting (the throwing of food/objects) as protest. Part history lecture/part instructional tutorial, this work will invite audience members to be active members of a pie-ocracy, engaging in the act of pelting throughout the duration of the performance.

Mixing humour and sincerity, Target Practice grapples with the artist’s own feelings of frustration, rage, and helplessness in the face of rising fascism. The lectures tell the fascinating history of pelting through the ages from Eggboy, the Bionic Baking Brigade and Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at George W. Bush, unpacking the legacy and consequences of these actions.

Katie is known to Vitals audiences after bringing We The People x Port Adelaide to us last year, following its development at Adhocracy in 2022. She is the lighting designer for another work developed and commissioned by Vitals, The Act.

This project is part of Vitals’ URGE Development Program.

URGE is a development stream supporting artists and projects from early ideas through to presentation-ready performance, with developments, residencies, workshops and laboratories taking place both locally and in partnerships across the country.

About the Artist

Katie Sfetkidis

Katie is a multidisciplinary artist working across live performance and visual art. Her practices focus on history, feminism, politics and the role of the artist in civic life. Katie’s work takes many forms, civic interventions, performance and drawing. Katie is the current artist in residence at the City of Melbourne Art & Heritage Collection and the 2026 recipient of the Frank Van Stratten Fellowship at Arts Centre Melbourne. Katie has presented works with Queen Victoria Women’s Centre where she was the Feminist Emissary (2020/21), The Substation, Vitalistatistix, Melbourne Fringe Festival and various local councils and artist run spaces. Major works include We the People (2022- 2025) and The Women’s COVID-19 Time Capsule (2020-2022). In 2018, she ran for Mayor in the City of Melbourne By-election. She is an active member of the Women’s Art Register she was the Guest Editor of their bi-annual Bulletin #77 (2026) and was commissioned to create their 50th Anniversary poster (2025). Alongside her art practice, Katie is an awardwinning lighting designer, working with companies including ILBIJERRI, Joel Bray Dance, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, State Theatre South Australia and Aphids. She has won Two Green Room Awards and was the chair of the Theatre Companies Panel (2022-2024).

About the Artist

Other Projects

Mortified

Ride Or Die

Birdwatching: An Australian Story