I had the opportunity to undertake a six month artist’s residency with ACAVA during which I was able to spend time deepening my participatory practice, and create a solo show spanning six pieces and two rooms. 

The work explored communal archiving practices and collective action through speculative near-fiction. The residency culminated in a public exhibition and a community event bringing together artists, game-makers, movement practioners and activists to share their experience and knowledge. 

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I’d like to take some time soon to write about the residency and how it has shaped my thinking, but for now you can see a bit about some of the pieces that came out of it using the links below.

Water Slides: A room scale object poem that invites the audience to interact, gently shifting the text and the landscape it evokes. 

The Bottleneck: A poem and map-making game told through 55 playing card sized collages. 

The Archive Artifact: The core of the exhibition. A local digital library and archive for participants to share knowledge. It asks how we can form our own networks separate from the seemingly inevitable infrastructure we are presented with.

We All Go Together: A sharing event styled after the unconference format. An exercise in gathering as a medium.

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