Artists

Antoine Razouk is a dramaturg and actor based in Sydney, participated in acting roles since 2019, he studied theatrical studies at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus and Acting at the Lebanese University.

Hajer is an Iraqi-Australian writer, actress and founder of the Iraqi Diaspora Creatives Network.

Nicole Barakat works with deep listening and intuitive processes, with intentions to transform the conditions of everyday life.

daniel ward is a poet and musician based in naarm.

Lou Garcia-Dolnik is a writer and editor working on unceded Gadigal land whose practice focalises diaspora, genderqueerness and rage.

Melody Paloma is a poet, editor and critic currently living in Naarm (Melbourne).

As a music and arts collective comprised of BIPOC, ANTE aspires to create spaces and events that allow for non-western histories, cultures and knowledge to take primacy.

Lost All Sorts Collective is a multi-disciplinary collective of Independent First Nations Artists from many different Nations.

Jamila Main is a trained actor and self-taught, award-winning playwright living and working on unceded Peramangk and Kaurna land in South Australia.

Daniel Savage is an artist, disability advocate, and curator working across photography, video and performance.

Georgia Morgan works with thresholds: an open window, a hole in the fence, a pause for thought in conversation.

J Bi Li Chan is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, writer and researcher based in Sydney. For many years she has been an academic sociologist, researching on topics such as policing, culture, creativity, and technology.

Julia Bavyka is a Kazakhstan-born interdisciplinary artist, writer and community organiser interested in the intersection of artistic and everyday research.

Shireen Taweel is a multimedia installation artist whose work broaches issues of the construction of cultural heritage, knowledge and identity through language and the constantly shifting public space of the social, political and religious axiom.

Riana Head-Toussaint is an interdisciplinary disabled artist who uses a manual wheelchair for mobility. Her work often crosses traditional artform boundaries, and exists in online and offline spaces.

Harrie McKay’s practice is oriented around the personal and collective memories we house within ourselves and hold physically within our body.

Spence Messih’s practice speaks broadly to sites of pressure, power structures, materiality and language and more specifically about these things in relation to their own experience.