Astrid Pill

Astrid Pill is a performer/theatre maker who has worked with numerous companies and collaborators spanning a 20 year career in the performing arts. She has worked with numerous arts companies including Restless Dance Theatre and Patch Theatre Company and has a 20-year collaborative relationship with Ingrid Voorendt and Zoe Barry. She has worked with Brand X, Yashchin Ensemble, The Border Project, Maude Davey, Vitalstatistix, Ingrid Voorendt, Ladykillers, Daisy Brown/Cabaret Festival, Windmill and State Theatre…

Cat Jones

Cat Jones is an artist, writer and researcher thinking across social, biological and metaphysical realms. Known for her immersive experiences and socially engaged artworks she works with neuroscientists, biologists, entomolgists, gastronomists to create live art, performance, installation, text, audio-visual multi-media, edible and olfactory art. Her work explores inter-sensoriality and incongruence as sites for transformation, subjugated knowledge and the subversion of science, history, language. Her research and methods are informed by queer, feminist, accessible practices and…

Lily Potger

Hailing from Garlambirla (Coffs Harbour), Lily Potger trained with Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London. Their personal exploration exists in the body and its experience. They seek to explore the limits of dance within community and commons and investigate how movement as a medium can be a modality for social systems and place — using the findings of these investigations to negate and challenge the traditional structures of formalised contemporary dance. During…

Mirabelle Wouters

Mirabelle Wouters is a Belgian/Australian designer, educated in industrial design with 23 years’ experience making work for large-scale outdoor and indoor theatre with her signature use of found space, recycled costume and light.

Branch Nebula

Branch Nebula is one of Australia’s most adventurous arts companies. For the past 23 years, our nimble ensemble of creators has forged bold new audience experiences at the intersection of theatre, dance, sport and street cultures. From the intimate to the large-scale, we make performances in regional skate parks, abandoned shopping malls, as well as for international festivals and contemporary art centers. http://branchnebula.com/

Rachael Guinness

Rachael Guinness is a Sydney-based creative whose career spans the corporate and creative sectors. She designs and delivers large-scale activations for brand functions, fashion shows, music festivals, corporate events, music videos and product launches. Her career has evolved from creating playful installations to pursuing understanding of complex problems within our society. Her works have spanned large-scale event production designs (Sydney Marathon, Gold Dinner), original scenography for theatre and live artworks (Epoch Wars and The Queer…

Niki Johnson

Niki Johnson is a percussionist and composer-performer whose experimental musical practice incorporates interdisciplinary collaboration, improvisation, contemporary classical repertoire, and performance art. She collaborates with fine-artists and musicians to create new artworks existing in the liminal spaces of art mediums. Her current PhD research at Monash University explores percussionists' collaborations with sculptors and designers, and the process of co-creating, and composing for new sculptural musical instruments. Materials of particular interest to her are glass and ceramic,…

Solomon Frank

Solomon Frank is a queer improviser, composer and educator living and working on Cammeraygal land, whose inter-disciplinary practice straddles cross-species musical collaboration, vacuum cleaners and time travel. Solomon receives emails from the future including music and musical instructions written by future humans and entities for Frank to perform and carry out in the present. Solomon’s works and those received from the future have been performed by Ensemble Offspring, Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows, Kirkos Ensemble (Ireland),…

Sascha Budimski

Sascha Budimski (he/him) is an Adelaide based sound artist whose style of music generally involves mashing electronic beats, glitched acoustic instruments and textured ambiences. He developed his interest in sound art and electronic music whilst studying dance at the Adelaide College of the Arts, and he is heavily drawn to designing and creating sound for theatre, dance and art installations. Sascha is a fully qualified sound engineer, studying at the School of Audio Engineering (SAE)…

Sarah Peters

Dr Sarah Peters (she/her) is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Flinders University and book reviews editor for Australasian Drama Studies. Sarah is a playwright and theatre practitioner specialising in verbatim theatre and community-engaged theatre making, most recently with youth arts organisations in South Australia such as D’faces of Youth Arts (2019), Expressway Arts (Carclew) (2019-2021) and Prospect Theatre for Young People (2022). She was a commissioned writer on STCSA’s and ActNow’s 2020 Ruby Award winning…

Isobel Marmion

Isobel Marmion (she/her) is a writer, performer, storyteller and arts worker based on Kaurna Country. Her practice includes traditional theatre, comedy, and experimental cabaret. Her work frequently focuses on the intersection between science and communal experiences, and she often uses humour to explore class disparities, loneliness and mental illness. Her work has included Bonk: A Romantic Comedy About Science and Sex (2013), People Piss in Here (2015), It's My Funeral and I'll Throw Glitter if…

Ingrid Vranken

Ingrid Vranken (BE) works as an independent dramaturg, curator and artist, and is a member of FoAM, a transdisciplinary laboratory at the interstices of art, science, nature and everyday life. Her curatorial and artistic practice focuses on enabling a systemic ecofeminist transition in the arts, through engaging with the knowledge and labor of other-than-human beings, and in particular plants. For this, she creates collaborative curatorial frameworks and speculative lecture performances under the umbrella of Rooted…

Roman Berry

Born from Cebu City, Philippines, Roman Berry migrated with his family to Ceduna, South Australia, where he discovered his love for community theatre and the arts. He trained at Flinders University Drama Centre (Acting) and Centre for Performing Arts (Dance). Performance career highlights include playing the role of Ernie, in Jordan Shea’s Malacanang/ Montgomery (Part of the Cybec Electric 2023 program for Melbourne Theatre Company); Cameron Mackintosh’s Australian Premiere of Miss Saigon; Harry Miller’s Pageant:…

Max Brading

Max Brading is an artist working on Kaurna Land specializing in interactive and real time visual arts, immersive media and artistic integration with multimedia systems. With a diverse range of skills including photography, digital design, music and sonic art, large format projection of visual works, and lighting design, Max's experience allows them to connect and create using technology across disciplines. http://badmax.tv

Elizabeth Hay

Elizabeth Hay is a graduate of the Flinders Drama Centre, and lives and works as an actor on Kaurna land. Her theatre credits include Girl From The North Country (GWB and Damien Hewitt), Hibernation, The Gods of Strangers, Red Cross Letters, Volpone and Jesikah for the State Theatre Company South Australia, Baba Yaga, Grug and Grug and the Rainbow for Windmill Theatre Company, Yo Diddle Diddle and The Lighthouse for Patch Theatre Company, and the…

Mat Morison

Adelaide based musician and community arts facilitator, Mat Morison (he/they), is always looking for new ways to forge connections between disparate styles and ideas. Originally training in jazz piano, Mat has since taken their skills in improvisation and applied it to a wide variety of pursuits, from film and theatre composition, to coding, Auslan interpreting, performance art, and language making. Mat performs regularly with musical outfit Slowmango, and performance art group The Bait Fridge, and…

Bianka Kennedy

Bianka Kennedy is a designer and maker with a diversepractice, working across the stage, screen and gallery settings. She has designed and/or made for Warner Brothers, Windmill Theatre, Windmill Picture + ABC, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Theatre Republic, Kinetik Collective. Crossover (London) + Adelaide Fringe, Largent Studio (New York)+FOMO, Fox Creek + Garden of Unearthly Delights, SA Water, SA Tourism Commission, SA Power Networks, Adelaide City Council, independent theatre and private commission. Bianka…

Clara Solly-Slade

Clara Solly-Slade graduated from the acting stream of The Adelaide College of the Arts (2013) then undertook further training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London, where she completed an international Acting Shakespeare Course (2016). In 2017 she trained in Italy with La Mama Experimental Theatre Company at their International Directors Symposium. Clara was awarded the Helpmann Academy’s Neil Curnow Award (2018) where she interned in the USAwith The H.E.A.T Collective, Working Classroom and…

Anthony Nocera

Anthony Nocera is a writer and theatremaker based on Kaurna Land. His plays have been performed at Melt Festival and Sydney Mardi Gras. His writing has appeared in The Age, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, Vice, Metro Film, Archer and Krass Journal among many others. He has been included in collections published by Black Ink and Wakefield Press.

Alison Currie

Alison Currie is an independent choreographer and performer based on Kaurna Land, in South Australia. She holds a Research Masters in Choreography and Performance from University of Roehampton, UK and a BA in Dance Performance from Adelaide College of the Arts. Currie makes works that connect the individual with universally shared humanity through live performance and video, and often works with inanimate objects alongside dancers to highlight the human, personal, and emotional within the work.…

Ade Suharto

Ade Suharto is a Tarntanya (Adelaide)-born artist of Indonesian heritage. Studying aspects of the Javanese dance canon in both Indonesia and Australia frames her interest in the complexity of lineage and the sustainability of the dancing body. Her collaborations have been presented across Australia, Indonesia, Belgium and the UK. Currently, Ade is sharing practice with Alison Currie and Ranjana Dave, and in sustained conversation with Padmini Chettur. Ade is a PICA Interdisciplinary Lab Artist (2021-2023),…

Indira Storm

Indira Storm is a performing artist based in Boorloo, Whadjuk country of the Noongar nation. She is a interdisciplinary artist specialising in contemporary dance, pole dance and theatre. She was awarded Edith Cowan University’s Higher Degree by Research scholarship to support her Masters by Research project, Voice in Motion: Connecting voice and movement in contemporary dance. She completed her degree in 2021 and has been working independently since. Most recently she has been working towards…

Rebecca Riggs-Bennett

Rebecca Riggs-Bennett (she/they) is an Anglo-Australian artist, electronic music producer, composer, sound designer based in Boorloo on Whadjuk country. They work with sound as a device that transmits, transports and transforms, often through forms of live art, installation, and spoken text. Through what can be termed as interdisciplinary, socially-engaged and experiential practice, Rebecca examines systems, entangled histories, ecological networks and personhood to generate immersive and participatory possibilities. Her sonic work includes: Punkaliyarra (BighART/Perth Festival), Painting…

Sam Watson Wood

Since 2004, Sam Watson Wood has worked across curation, programming, producing, strategy, development and communication in the arts and cultural sector with projects spanning Australia, UK and Europe. Her expertise & specialty is in artistic development, partnership strategy, audience development and the ideation and delivery of public programs and festival, civic, and commercial commissions.

Amala Groom

Amala Groom is a Wiradyuri conceptual artist who employs a Wiradyuri based ontology and embodied research-based methodology that considers traditional cultural practice and ‘academia’ with ‘formal research’ as a whole of person approach as both inquiry and investigation in the actual and literal sense. Her practice, as a collaboration with her Ancestors is driven by the philosophies of Yindyamarra, Kanyini and Dadirri which lay the foundations for a feeling centred approach in the delicate balancing…

Lee Wilson

Lee Wilson mainly works with Branch Nebula, but does do other things, such as working as a dramaturg on productions like Nick Power’s dance pieces Deejay x Dancer, Cypher and Between Tiny Cities. He leads the odd workshop (Body of Ideas at Critical Path), and speaks on the occasional panel or in lecture type environments. In the past he has performed in other peoples’ work and directed some pieces, but that was a fair while ago. Some past collaborators include: Nick…

Skye Gellmann

Skye Gellmann works with themes of queerness and its entanglement with power structures. They are an Artist based in Marrickville, Australia on Gadiagal-Wangal land. Skye studied Contemporary Circus from a young age in Adelaide and graduated from NICA, Melbourne in 2006. They took their acrobatic skills into contemporary performance creating original work, before moving to Sydney in 2013. They have created nine full length performance works that have toured Australia, Europe and Asia to stages…

Fleur Green

Fleur Green is a musician and creator with many strings – literal and otherwise – to her artistic bow. In her early life and career, Fleur was a prodigious, classically trained multi-instrumentalist, playing piano, violin, and a range of percussion instruments – ultimately to award-winning, orchestral standards. From these beginnings, Fleur moved towards her passions, reinventing herself as a composer, singer, and songwriter. She wrote and performed an acclaimed debut album When the tide rushes in with…

Annabel Matheson

Annabel Matheson is a queer performer, maker, and arts worker based on Kaurna land. She completed her acting training at Flinders University Drama Centre, graduating with First Class Honours and a University Medal (2014), and has a Master of Arts and Cultural Management from the University of South Australia (2022). Onstage credits for State Theatre Company South Australia: The Bleeding Tree (Theatre Republic), Terrestrial, Machu Picchu (Sydney Theatre Company), and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.…

James Smith

Graduating from Flinders University Drama Centre in 2013, James Smith has been involved in various stage and screen productions. Credits include Neighbourhood Watch, Othello, This is Where We Live, Volpone, Gorgon, Vale, Jasper Jones, Limit, Euphoria and Hibernation (State Theatre Company South Australia), Emily Loves to Bounce (Patch Theatre Company), Grug, Hans and Gret (Windmill Theatre), The Young King (Slingsby Theatre Company), The Aspirations of Daise Morrow (Brink Productions), Lines, How Not to Make it…

Sarah-Jayde Tracey

Sarah-Jayde Tracey is a neurodivergent and chronically ill theatre maker, performer and Accessibility Consultant based in Naarm. Growing up in public housing and being raised by a young single mum has given them a desire to make and perform works that delve into class politics unashamedly, from lived experience perspectives that have been historically excludedfrom participating in the arts. They have created and performed in several theatre and experimental works, notably, Hedda GablerGablerGabler at La…

Cher Tan

Cher Tan is an editor, essayist and critic based in Melbourne, via Adelaide and Singapore. Her work centres her experiences as a queer, working-class, non-tertiary educated autodidact and first-generation migrant in a globalised world, and how this intersects with technology, politics and/or pop culture. This includes the various thematic inheritances that diaspora entails, and the many ways it informs identity politics, settler colonialism, late-stage capitalism, and class mobility. Her work has been published in The…

Carly Sheppard

Carly Sheppard is a cross-disciplinary performance artist based in Naarm (Melbourne) whose work negotiates across dance and theatre performance, sculpture, drawing, voice, and installation. Carly’s recent performance credits include Chase (A Daylight Connection), A Nightime Travesty (A Daylight Connection), Set Piece (Anna Breckon and Nat Randall), Considerable Sexual License (Joel Bray Dance), Anthem (Performing Lines/Arts Centre Melbourne), and Love (Cornelius and Dee). Carly received a Green Room Award for Production In Experimental Theatre for her…

Sam Roberts

Sam Roberts is an Adelaide-based shooter capturing stills, video and time-lapse. samroberts.photo

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Erwin Maas

Erwin Maas is a New York based theatermaker, curator, educator and international arts advocate from the Netherlands with extensive international experience across a variety of creative and community contexts. In New York, he directed numerous productions Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway as well as Site Specific. He is especially passionate about developing new or existing works with local artists and/or communities and has done so all around the world. His directing work ranges from plays…

Sue Grey-Gardner

Sue Grey-Gardner is an experienced stage electrician with a demonstrated history of working across the performing arts industry. Skilled in set electrics and Lighting Design, also mentors young designers and presents lighting workshops for schools and community groups. Strong operations professional with half of a Bachelor of Interior Architecture focused in design from University of South Australia. www.instagram.com/susangreygardner/

James Dodd

James Dodd exhibits regularly across Australia in publicly funded institutions, commercial galleries and artist-run spaces. He works across a range of mediums with particular interests in painting, DIY, adventure and public space. He maintains a curiosity in suburbia as landscape and also the creative activities and transgressions that occur in suburban and regional spaces. Dodd has undertaken a number of projects that firmly locate themselves in suburbia and its creative potential. Dodd is active as…

Kirsty Martinsen

Kirsty Martinsen is a painter, designer and performer and filmmaker based in Adelaide, South Australia. She has a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the South Australian School of Art and a Diploma of Painting from the NY Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Her lived experience with MS continues to provide her with new insights into and an outlook on her work, included in her approach is the use of a power-wheelchair as an…

Jingwei Bu

Jingwei Bu is an artist who lives and works on Kaurna land in Tarntanya/Adelaide. Her practice utilizes a range of modalities, from moving image to performance to explore the notion of time as a collaborator through duration based artwork, as the subject of her work enacting ritual and repetition; and through media itself. Influenced by Buddhist Chan philosophy, Jingwei’s work is responsive, experimental and participatory. www.jingweibu.com/

Matthew Adey

Matthew Adey is a production designer and theatre artist based in Melbourne, Victoria. He works under the name House of Vnholy; an experimental, multi-disciplinary art collective based in Melbourne. HØV is known for their dark and macabre performance art style driven by the neo-gothic. HØV’s experiences evoke transcendence, meditation and contemplation of the theatrical and the spectacle through darkness and illusive perception driven the ephemeral possibilities of light. HØV have naturally migrated into creating new-media and…

Shian Law

Shian Law is a Malaysian born Chinese Queer dance practitioner based in Naarm. They graduated from the Victorian College for the Arts with a Bachelor of Dance, and began their professional dancer career with independent choreographer Jo Lloyd in 2009. Shian taught extensively for professional companies and tertiary education institutions including their alma mater The Victorian College for the Arts, the University of Melbourne. They have also mentored Embittered Swish, an art ensembles of queer…

Kim Munro

Kim Munro is a documentary maker living on Kaurna land. Her practice includes film, sound and installation. Her films have been screened on television and film festivals, as well as galleries. She is currently working on a video projection commission in regional Victoria. Kim is also a lecturer at the university of South Australia.

Jason Sweeney

Jason Sweeney (he/him) is a composer and sound artist based on Kaurna Yarta. Since 1999 he has composed for leading performing arts companies and organisations (State Theatre Company SA, Restless Dance Theatre, Patch Theatre, Chunky Move, Closer Productions, pvi collective) and international companies and centres (TED, SPILL Festival, SOIT, Banff Centre, NADINE).

Fiona Sprott

Fiona Sprott (she/her) is an artist and research academic with an extensive history of writing for stage and screen. She holds a PhD (Flinders University), and MCA (UTS) earned through ten years of dedicated research into the cultural representations of heterosexual female fear and desire, ghosts and haunted spaces forged through trauma/intense grief.

Jacob Boehme

Jacob Boehme is a critically acclaimed theatre maker and choreographer, from the Nharangga and Kaurna Nations, creating work for stage, screen, large-scale public events, and festivals.

Boehme is currently the inaugural Director First Nations Programs for Carriageworks, one of Australia’s largest multi-arts venues for the development and presentation of experimental and
contemporary arts.

Alumnus of NASIDA College of Dance and the Victorian College of the Arts, (MA in Arts – Playwriting, MA in Arts – Puppetry), Boehme was the founding Creative Director of Yirramboi Festival, recipient
of the 2018 Green Room Award for Curatorial Contribution to Contemporary and Experimental Arts and has led the artistic direction for opening ceremonies of major festivals and events: Tanderrum (Melbourne Festival), Thuwathu (Cairns Indigenous Arts Fair), Opening Welcome Ceremony (Cricket World Cup, Dreamtime at the G, FINA World Swimming Championships, Dreaming Festival).

Boehme is the writer and performer of the critically acclaimed solo performance work Blood on the Dance Floor, recipient of the 2017 Green Room Award Best Independent Production.

Boehme is an Australia Council for the Arts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellow and has been a member of International Advisory Committees for the Calouste Gulbenkian UK Inquiry into the Role of Arts Organisations, the Ministry of Culture Taiwan South-East Asia Advisory Panel, the Global First Nations Advisory and Bibu Festival International First Nations Curatorial Committee.

Samorn Sanixay

Samorn Sanixay is a Canberra based textile designer and weaver with more than twenty years experience in textiles and natural dyeing. From 2002 to 2005, Samorn was as an apprentice under the guidance of Master weaver Khaisy Sophabmixay, who was born in Sam Neau in north eastern Laos, an area known for some of the most exquisite weavings in the world. In 2004, the Eastern Weft weaving cooperative was established to support disadvantaged young Lao artisans of…

Melody Ellis

Melody Ellis is a writer and artist and lecturer in creative writing and is a member of the non/fictionLab research group. Her work is informed by fictocritical approaches to writing and scholarship, as well as to a commitment to collaboration and to collective thinking and making. Melody was a founding co-director of the artist run initiative, Gallery WREN (2001-2004). She has worked for numerous artist-run initiatives and Biennales including un Magazine, West Space, The Biennale of Sydney and the Athens Biennale. Her most recent curatorial work includes a collaboration with Sandra Bridie at Bus Projects entitled ‘Walking in the configuration of infinity’ (2021).

Aunty Margaret Brodie

Aunty Margaret Brodie is the Kaurna elder for Port Adelaide, this culturally important project is lead and guided by her. She is a daughter of Auntie Veronica Brodie, and great-great-granddaughter of Lartelare, a senior Kaurna woman who was born by the Port River, Kaurna Country in 1851. Over the last 10 years, as a certified Tour Guide, Margaret has shared culture and story with schools and community thru walking tours and workshops. Recently, she was…

Jennifer Eadie

Jennifer Eadie is an artist, writer, and academic living on Kaurna Country in Port Adelaide. Her creative work is interdisciplinary (text, installation, and audio-visual) but always grounded in place. Methodologically, her practice is fictocritical, involving collaboration and drawing on site-based material. Currently, she is a Research Fellow in the Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame. Her recent art and words have been shared in UNRAVEL, her on-going collaborative project with Adrianne Semmens, and in…

Ali Gumillya Baker

Ali Gumillya Baker is a Mirning woman from the Nullarbor on the West Coast of South Australia. She is a visual artist, performer, filmmaker, and a member of the Unbound Collective, that brings together four Aboriginal artists, activists, and academics. Ali is a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University. Her areas of research interest include colonial archives, memory, and intergenerational transmission of knowledge.

Gabrielle Nankivell

Gabrielle Nankivell is a South Australian director and performer with formative ties to Europe. Working independently and commissioned by leading dance companies and training institutions, Gabrielle also maintains a collaborative creative practice with composer Luke Smiles. Gabrielle’s work has been widely presented across Australia, Europe and Asia by Adelaide Festival Centre, Arts House, Cankarjev Dom (Slovenia), Carriageworks, Esplanade Theatres (Singapore), Festival d’automne (France), High Fest Yerevan (Armenia), Klapstuk (Belgium), Lyric Theatre (Hong Kong), Roslyn Packer…

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Steph Daughtry

Steph is a cross-disciplinary Creative Producer, Director and Artist working across live performance, film, installation, and experience design. She is co-Artistic Director of multi-sensory design company Post Dining. Steph currently lives, works and plays on Kaurna Country.

Arran Beattie

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Arran Beattie worked professionally in theatre, film and television with The BBC, UK Theatre School at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He appeared in Falstaff (Scottish Opera) and memorial film Auschwitz (RedSnappa, 2010) before migrating to Australia in 2013. Arran graduated from Flinders Drama Centre in 2018 and is an actor, writer, drag performer, singer, guitarist and clown. Most recently, he appeared in Neale Irwin’s Parlour Games (The Green Guys Company)…

Peter Beaglehole

Dr Peter Beaglehole is a playwright.

Dan Thorpe

Dan Thorpe is… a pianist and performer with a special interest in queer work, and work with a focus on the theatrical and performative. He trained classically through his teens, before injury gave him an out from playing dead white men. The work he performs now celebrates his broken and queer body, rather than further battering it into a ninteenth century mould. He has been described as having “no respect for the culture of pianism”…

Mary Angley

Mary Angley (she/they) is an award-winning theatremaker and a recent graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts’ Master of Directing program. A child of The Internet, in her work she reveres the unique properties of both live and digital performance. Her practice spans writing, directing, dramaturgy, and performance, with sporadic forays into design. She received First Class Honours from Flinders University for her practice-led research project: an immersive adaptation of Timon of Athens. For her…

Daley Rangi

Daley Rangi is a Māori antidisciplinary artist generating the unpredictable - speaking truth to power, reorienting hierarchies, and investigating injustice. They’ve made a lot of art - not all of it good, but most of it interesting. They are neurodivergent, which appears to infiltrate their work. Speaking of, their practice has, thus far, tackled ecological sovereignty, disability ethics, ideological virality, contested histories, and queer labour. For them, self-biographies are all-at-once discomforting, superfluous, and crucial; in…

Shan Turner-Carroll

Shan Turner-Carroll (b. AUS 1987) is an Australian artist of Burmese descent. Shan’s practice responds to both site and situation specificity, and integrates mediums including photography, sculpture, performance and film. The subjects his works have related to include both human and non-human nature, alternative forms of social exchange and interactions between art, artist and viewer. Looking towards the multiplicity of connections between body and landscape, site-specificity is key to his work. Not only in making,…

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Kuba Dorabialski

Kuba Dorabialski is an artist, writer and educator originally from Wrocław, Poland. He works primarily in video installation. He's interested in mysticism, political history and the personal poetic; his tools are geography, language and cinema history. Kuba's work has been exhibited in the US, Europe and Australia and several of his videos are in the Artbank collection. In 2017, he won the John Fries Award with the video installation Floor Dance of Lenin's Resurrection. In…

Katy B Plummer

Katy B Plummer makes video, sculpture and installations. She looks for the moment that fervent conviction and striving either ascends to glory, or tips into bathos. Basically, she likes high drama with its pants around its ankles.

Cinzia Schincariol

Cinzia Schincariol is an expert beginner who loves dancing her way through the world. "I love meeting people, embodying stories, memories and landscapes. I am addicted to experiencing, to learning. I want to explore the artistic potential of the intersection of all my passions. I want to question what it means to be an artist. I seek vitality, joy, growth, enlivenment and deep internal reforestation. I seek peace with ‘time’. I want to show up to…

Dianne Reid

Dianne Reid is a performer, choreographer, camera operator, video editor, writer and educator. She has created dance for a range of live and screen contexts. Hipsync is her dance video production company established in 2002. Dianne has created over 50 screendance works, many of which have screened internationally. Dianne trained in Adelaide in Communication Studies (Drama), then a BA Dance under David and Simi Roche (South Australian College of Advanced Education). In 2001 she completed…

Catherine Ryan

Catherine Ryan is an artist, writer and performer from Melbourne. Catherine works in media including performance, sound, text, video and installation. She has exhibited at galleries and festivals in Australia and Europe, including Gertrude Contemporary, MUMA, the Royal College of Art (London), the Vienna Biennale and the Melbourne Art Fair. She has written accompanying creative and philosophical texts for a number of art projects, as well as miscellaneous pieces in academic and not-so-academic publications. Her…

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James Nguyen

James Nguyen works with installation and performance, often collaborating with members of his family to examine the politics of art, representation, and decolonisation. "Drawing out conversations with family, friends and strangers through poetry, sculpture, film, music, and other shared experiences, I try to understand the profound creativity and humour of migrants and our relationships."

Katie Sfetkidis

Katie Sfetkidis is a multidisciplinary artist living and working on lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people. Her feminist practice is interested in exploring feminist and political histories and their impact on contemporary lives of women. Sfetkidis is keenly interested in exploring the role of the artist in public life and often working outside traditional art institutions, Most notable public artworks include; PRESENT/MEMORY: Women's COVID-19 Time Capsule (2020-2022); The Feminist Poster Project (2020-2021); Dear Minister…

Jennifer Mills

Jennifer Mills is the author of the novels The Airways (Picador, 2021) Dyschronia (Picador, 2018), Gone (UQP, 2011) and The Diamond Anchor (UQP, 2009) and a collection of short stories, The Rest is Weight (UQP, 2012). In 2019 Dyschronia was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s most prestigious prize for literary fiction, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and the Aurealis Awards for science fiction. Mills’ fiction, essays and criticism have been widely published, including in Best Australian Stories, Best Australian Essays, Griffith Review, The Guardian, Heat, Island, the…

Tilly Lawless

Tilly Lawless is a queer, Sydney-based sex worker who utilises her online platform to speak about her personal experiences within the sex industry, in an attempt to shine a light on the everyday stigma that sex workers come up against. Growing up in rural NSW, her writing is often a bucolic love letter to the countryside that she comes from, and also a deeply intimate insight into queer romance and relationships. You can read…

Motus Collective

Returning to South Australia after touring and performing in Europe throughout 2018, Felicity Boyd and Zoe Gay recognised South Australia needed new artistic energy and grass-roots opportunities for local dancers. As a result of this need, Motus Collective was formed in January 2019. Throughout 2019 Motus Collective held its Interdisciplinary Jam Sessions at The Mill, to which artists of all disciplines were invited. This created a space for artists to meet, move, collaborate, explore…

Monte Masi

Monte Masi is an artist who makes performances, videos, and text works which examine and reflect on economies of visual attention: the labour of looking and the ways we look together. He explores the way bodies are conditioned by various spaces of visual display, from the cool contemplation of the gallery space to the hot stare of the browser session to the complexity of encounters in the social sphere. Recent exhibitions and performances have…

eDuard Helmbold

eDuard Helmbold’s practice explores the roles of nostalgia and shame in the negotiation and production of cultural identities beyond myths of origin and language. He is a white, Afrikaans speaking South African immigrant living in Australia. His exploration of nostalgia and shame in identity production is as much about research as it is about self-discovery and personal emancipation. Drawing on Susan Best’s notion of ‘Reparative Aesthetics’ has served as a conceptual vessel whereby he engages…

Ben Eltham

Ben Eltham is a writer, journalist, researcher and trade unionist. Currently based at Monash University's School of Media, Film and Journalism, he teaches in the innovative Masters of Cultural and Creative Industries. He frequently writes about Australian culture for publications including Meanjin Quarterly, Sydney Review of Books, Overland, ABR, Kill Your Darlings, Jacobin, Crikey, ArtsHub and The Guardian. He is a member of the National Freelancers Committee of the Media, Arts and Entertainment Alliance and is…

amira.h.

amira.h. is a queer Lebanese Muslim performance artist, currently living in Naarm/Melbourne, who works extensively in the areas of endurance and body art. Her practice has employed ritual performance, object-making and installation, and most recently, performing to audiences via online platforms (Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Periscope). Themes of transgression and failure are explored in her work, as well as the binaries of joy and sorrow, celebration and mourning, and the spaces in between. The…

Nat Randall and Anna Breckon

Nat Randall is an artist working at the intersection of contemporary performance and video.

Anna Breckon is an independent filmmaker, editor, and critic based in Sydney.

Amrita Hepi

Amrita Hepi is an award-winning First Nations choreographer and dancer from Bundjulung (Aus) and Ngāpuhi (NZ) territories. Her mission as an artist is to push the barriers of intersectionality in form and make work that establishes multiple access points through allegory. Her work is characterised by hybridity and engages in extending choreographic practices by combining dance and movement with other domains such as visual art, language and participatory research. Her work has taken various…

Kate Power and Sarah Rodigari

. Kate Power Kate Power is an artist and writer based in Adelaide. Her practice embraces video, performance, textiles, sculpture, text and installation to investigate coexistence and enforced social constructions that can complicate the way people relate to one another. Kate has presented work at the Art Gallery of South Australia for fineprint magazine, West Space, Ace Open, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, BLINDSIDE, Seventh Gallery and FELTspace among others. She has undertaken residencies…

Alison Currie and Alisdair Macindoe

Alison Currie has a BA in Dance Performance from Adelaide College of the Arts, Australia and a Research Masters in Choreography and Performance from Roehampton University London.

Natalie Harkin

Natalie Harkin is a Narungga woman and activist-poet from South Australia.

Mish Grigor

The work of Mish Grigor is situated in the performing arts as a maker, writer and performer. Using autobiographical tools, humour, and fiction, she is intent on problematising the frames of power from which art and identity emerge. In 2019, with APHIDS, Mish toured The Talk to Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and premiered Exit Strategies at ArtsHouse. Based in Melbourne since 2017, Grigor is also co-director of POST, formed in 2003, a company who work between popular…

Jason Sweeney and Em König

Jason Sweeney’s interdisciplinary practice in the last 17 years has been in the emerging, risk-taking and constantly developing fields of digital art and technology, music, sound installation and performance art, among others. Em König is a queer poet/ fiction writer, lyricist and creative writing honours student at the University of Adelaide.

REBECCA CONROY

Rebecca Conroy works in an interdisciplinary manner as a director, curator, producer, researcher and writer across community, site-based events, discursive practices, and intercultural collaborations.

Paul Gazzola

Paul Gazzola operates an interdisciplinary practice of over 20 years across art, architecture, performance, curation, installation, choreography, scenographic design, video and theory. He creates and curates works for galleries, museums, stages, site-specific settings, print and projection, in Australia and internationally.

Emma Beech

Emma Beech started making shows for her mum in her bedroom when she was 6. Since then, she has graduated from Flinders Drama Centre and gone on to become an actor, theatre-maker and stand-up documenter. Emma finds the seemingly banal and everyday endlessly fascinating.

Jason Sweeney

THE RABBLE

THE RABBLE (Kate Davis and Emma Valente) was formed in 2006 from a desire to make work that wasn’t being produced in Australia: visually ambitious, political, feminist and formally experimental.