Navigating to Safe Space - an Auslan poetry performance with textile as water
Winner of the Lake Art Prize
This work is now permanently in the Museum of Art and Culture collection
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Navigating to Safe Space The communication and oppression of the Deaf community remains to be a barrier and as the seas of communities move, we try to find our safe space among those waters. This work is critical idea on finding safe space, an exploration of informing through performance and textile practices the safe spaces for Deaf people, the use of Auslan, finding culture and identity in our Deaf community. A finalist in the Lake Art Prize Winner of the Lake Art Prize |
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Shown in the Museum of Art and Culture permanently. This work is shown, on the right, as an installation of the textile work acting as the screen for the performance work. The fabric used as water in the performance then became a poem textile, the poem sewn onto the fabric, and in installation, set up like a wave, movement as a wave The process of sewing the poem into the 'water' fabric sheet |
