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SCORING THE COMMONS (2021-)

Gosford Regional Gallery; University of Helsinki; World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Avant Project (Poland)

Ongoing sonic research and performance activity exploring the relationship between shared lives and livelihoods across working-class social spaces derealised by precarity, and development working with local ensembles, brassbands, community volunteers and interviews with youth in low-SES regions.

POOR OPERA(TIONS) TRILOGY (2022-)

PACT CENTRE; LIQUID ARCHITECTURE (MONO-POLY); LIVING ROOM THEATRE

POOR/PARA OPERA(TIONS) is an exploratory ‘poor’ opera trilogy concerned with making ‘cheap performances within one’s means’ across the three ecologies. The first iteration B(Z)LOOM ANONYMOU$ was performed as part of Liquid Architecture’s MONO-POLY; the second iteration THE MARINE ROOM, was performed and developed at PACT Centre with mentorship from choreographer Martin Del Amo.

CLASS ACTION$ COLLECTIVE (2022-)

Carriageworks, CEMENTA Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Ethics Centre

https://carriageworks.com.au/events/sleeplessness-2022/

Collective comprised of: Gadigal/Bidgigal/Yuin Elder, Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor, Kaz Therese, James Hazel
(concerned with intersecting, lived experiences of poverty - across micro-geographies in an era of radical change) with a host of collaborators to articulate what ‘class’ means within the contemporary world and arts landscape through sound, text, and experimental performance.

POOR ACOUSTICS: CLASSED VOCALITIES (2023)

GUEST-EDITED EDITION OF LIQUID ARCHITECTURE: DISCLAIMER JOURNAL

https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/poor-acoustics-classed-vocalities

A collection of performance, video, scores, poetry, and essays that foregrounds working class vocalities/legacies using un(common) sonic dissonance to foster sharp commentary and working class solidarity and sociality.

PRE(CARE)IOUS SCORES (2020-)

Livedreams/Performance Space, ADSR ZINE, RTM.FM

(exploring classed/trauma’d embodiments through working-class vocality text, voice and utterence)

i. hidden injuries (for voice and fixed media)
ii. transposing aspiration (for voice and field recordings

Introduction to
POOR ACOUSTICS; CLASSED VOCALITIES

(2022)
DISCLAIMER JOURNAL
LIQUID ARCHITECTURE

Introductory essay to collection of essays and creative works on the subject of working-class art practice

https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/poor-acoustics-classed-vocalities

CLASS ACTIONS/
CLASS WORK

(2023)
The Ethics Centre

Political pamphlet produced by CLASS ACTIONS Collective on classed-pedagogies and participation in the arts. Designed by SEPT. Design Studio

(de)Ghosting the Archive

(2022)
Carriageworks Journal
07–15–24

https://carriageworks.com.au/journal/deghosting-the-archive-kaz-thereses-sleeplessness/

Critial response to Kaz Therese’s ‘Sleeplessness’

The Big C Word; Class and Classical Music

(2020): Limelight Magazine
02–26–24

Sociological Research into the lack of cultural accesibility in classical music culture - accompanied by images from Elia Bosshard’s Assembly of Arenas series

Link to article

ADSR ZINE: SURVIVE AND THRIVE

(2023)

Political pamphlet on the exclusionary state of arts publishing in so-called Australia.

some things i should have told you (2021)

for cello quartet, electronics and voice memos
Performed by Quartetto Zuena
at the highSCORE Festival 2021 (Italy) Supported through CREATE NSW

tryin’ to find a way thru this malaise (2023)

for Solo Double Bass, performed and commissioned by Will Hansen

'tryin' to find a way through this malaise' explores the phenomenon of 'waiting' in late-Stage capitalism - drawing on plain-chant, no-wave, and working-class colloquialism(s).