FREAK OF NATURE

Invited to perform for local site-specific performance event 'Circling the Brink', situated in Telopea Gardens, Emerald, I created Freak of Nature with textile artist and co-performer Kiki Ando and sound maker Myfanwy Hunter.

A garden is already a contrived version of nature. Climate change has rendered nature unreliable through human manipulation. We imagine possible futures where, through interweaving and cross-breeding between natural and synthetic worlds, something new emerges, whilst other forms of life can no longer survive.

Photos by Laki Sideris
I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi wurrung and neighbouring Bunurong and Boon wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands on which I live, work and dance. I pay deep respect to their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. I extend that respect to Traditional Owners of the many Countries on which I undertake my work and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. I pay deep respect to First Nations elders past and present, who have listened to Country and danced, sung and told stories in and about their places for millennia.