Alex Wisser is a socially engaged artist and creative producer who lives and works on Wiradjuri Country in Kandos, NSW. His practice involves large-scale, long-term projects within a cross-disciplinary, community-engaged practice exploring the potential of art to participate in everyday cultural contexts.
Wisser co-founded Cementa Contemporary Arts Festival and the Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation, both regionally-based, socially-embedded arts initiatives that work to adapt and engage contemporary art culture to real world contexts with social as well as cultural benefits.
He has participated in delivering five successful Cementa festivals, giving over 200 artists the opportunity to explore the socially engaged form and works to constantly refine and rethink the capacity of art to function in cultural contexts other than the gallery or artworld.
Wisser recently raised $180K to purchase the premises of WAYOUT Artspace in Kandos (2022); The Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation (of which he is a founding member) won the Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize (2021); and he won the Regional Arts Australia Creative and Professional Development Fellowship (2019).
