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 |
Photo left: Council's Visual Arts and Public Programs Leader Joanna Davies with Destefano's winning work. Photo courtesy of Lake Mac News
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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. Chelle Destefano has won the inaugural Lake Art Prize for her work Navigating to Safe Space. The textile and video performance work will be acquired permanently into the Museum of Art and Culture collection. See more about the art award and the winning work at this article link here and at the Lake Art Prize website here. 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 |
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This artwork creation was supported by a grant from the Australia Council of the Arts |
