Meet the 2024 Artists
Eugenia Lim & Eva Otsing
Eugenia Lim is an artist of Chinese-Singaporean ancestry who works across body, lens, social and spatial practice to explore how migration and capital cut, divide and bond our interdependent, planetary commons. An ongoing strand of practice considers work, collectivity, technology and ethics—and art and capital as strange bedcohort. Based on unceded lands in the Kulin Nation, Lim has exhibited, screened or performed at the Tate Modern (GBR), LOOP Barcelona (ESP), FIVA (AR), Recontemporary (IT), Kassel Dokfest (DE), Museum of Contemporary Art (AUS), ACCA (AUS), FACT Liverpool (GBR), EXiS (Seoul) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK). EOS (Eva Otsing Studio) produces film, video and content for documentaries and art organisations. EOS collaborates with musicians and artists, and creates documentation for various dance, theatre and charity organisations in Australia and internationally.
Tully Arnot & Chris Luscri
Tully Arnot and Chris Luscri are a new creative team, bringing together a rich intersection of praxis around moving-image, installation and emergent technologies. Chris and Tully met at the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) EXPAND Lab 2023 and developed their initial project concept "Infinite Terrarium" through the Lab.Tully’s interdisciplinary creative practice explores models of plant-based and non-human multisensory perception as well as how technology mediates our relationships with the natural world, through areas including plant robotics and the simulation of nature. His multi-sensory virtual reality work Epiphytes was recipient of the Mordant Family VR Commission, and was exhibited at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in 2023. Chris is a producer & moving-image artist working primarily in documentary. His work intersects mortality, spatial absences and the archive, with an increasing focus on expanded documentary practices, VR/XR and immersive media. He recently co-produced artist Allison Chhorn’s major moving image installation Skin Shade Night Day for the MCA in 2022, as well as the end of life documentary Man on Earth (Sheffield Doc/Fest, 2022) for acclaimed Australian auteur Amiel Courtin-Wilson.
Sarah Walker & Roslyn Oades
Roslyn Oades and Sarah Walker are inventive documentary-based artists working at the intersection of performance, sound and installation. They harbour an ongoing fascination with innovative forms of creative non-fiction storytelling. Roslyn is known for her pioneering work in headphone-verbatim and audio-driven performance, with commissions by RISING, Malthouse, Sydney Festival, Belvoir, Utp, Windmill, Vitalstatistix, Hothouse and the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and a special Green Room Award for Technical Achievement in acknowledgement of her body of audio-theatre works. Sarah works across writing, art and installation and collaborates across live art, participatory performance and theatre, with a particular interest in sound as a modality to explore the collision of affect and data. Recent commissions have included works for Platform Arts, UNESCO City of Design, Chamber Made, Experimenta, The Unconformity, the NGV, Blindside, Geelong Gallery, MoreArt and councils around Victoria. This project sees them deepen their shared thematic interests in sonic worldbuilding and recontextualised found sound.
Lichen Kelp & Luna Mrozik Gawler
Lichen Kelp and Luna Mrozik Gawler are artists working to envision habitable worlds through kin-making, interspecies collaboration and collective actions. Their transdisciplinary work utilises live-art, media, art, science and futures thinking to traverse artistic and curatorial practices to create the conditions for collaborative survival and equitable planetary futures. Their award winning work has been shown and collected both locally and internationally, with work most recently appearing at the Centre for Projection Art, Unconformity Festival, SCA Gallery, The Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, The Australian Network of Art & Technology, Blindside Gallery and the Sydney Institute for the Environment. Lichen is one half of performance duo Kelping, alongside Dylan Matorell, and her curatorial projects include Seaweed Appreciation Society international (SASi), School of Untourism-East Gippsland and the travelling residency program; Forum of Sensory Motion as well as her performance picnic series MULCH. Complementing their artistic research, Luna regularly publishes eco-critical fiction and non-fiction text with work most recently commissioned by Art + Australia, Kings Run ARI and Next Wave.