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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. 

(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