Artist Bios
Kate Brown
Kate Brown is an Australian based artist and vocalist working across mediums, spanning performance, sound and installation. Kate is a currently focusing on experimental performance and voice in relation to how bodies and architecture carry and collect sound. Specifically how a performing body practices, produces and projects sound out, to be placed elsewhere.
Brian Fuata
Brian Fuata is a writer and performance maker. Brian Fuata’s improvisational practice is grounded in conversation, text and movement. Using a range of sites for his work including theatres, galleries, mobile phone text messages and the internet, he frames himself as ‘a performance that is responsive to its immediate environment’. The cultural contexts of performance, the way it is read and integrated into wider art practice forms an important part of his work.
Spence Messih
Spence Messih is an artist currently based in Sydney, Australia. Their work has been exhibited at ALASKA Projects, Sydney Guild, Firstdraft Gallery, MOP Projects, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Horsham Regional Gallery, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Stills Gallery, among others. Messih has also presented lectures and performances at Artspace, The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and Underbelly Arts Festival. They have undertaken artist residency programs with Bundanon Trust; Wildfjords, West Fjords, Iceland; and at NES, Skagaströnd, Iceland. They were awarded the Australia Council Artstart Grant in 2014 and was a Co-Director of Firstdraft Gallery in 2015/16. They are a recent recipient of the Freedman Foundation Scholarship and a current PhD candidate at The University of NSW Art and Design.
Emma Size & Sabella D'Souza
Emma Size is a writer and practice-based researcher currently interested in sincere and subversive performances of masculinity and the politics and ethics of pornographic, autotheoretical and post-digital writing. In 2016 she started writing erotic institutional critique during a writer’s residency at Firstdraft and this year she founded theorotics, a publishing press specialising in critical erotica.
Sabella D’Souza is a Sydney artist whose performance based practice considers notions of ownership, virtual identity and the use of public and private spaces, in particular, cyberspace. D’Souza’s work is a response to representations of “authentic” and “traditional” cultures within cyberspace, with reference to her own diasporic heritage. Her work is an unpacking of what it means to occupy a “bodily” space online.
