A monthly forum for artists to present experimental video and performance works-in-development and receive guided audience feedback.
Modelled on the format of an art school ‘crit’, this monthly program invites four guest artists to share works-in-development across experimental video and performance practices.
Guided by moderator Tanya Cubric, the audience is encouraged to watch attentively before collaboratively unpacking what they have observed. The discussion focuses on visual and sonic choices, form and rhythm, as well as the emotional and conceptual impressions of each piece.
This program offers emerging and established artists a supportive space to test ideas, hear genuine audience responses and return to their practice with deeper insight. For audiences, it offers a rare window into the creative process and an invitation to engage closely with ambitious, exploratory work.
Everybody is welcome to attend! You can register to attend as an audience member via the link on this page.
Artists looking to present work can submit an application here.
March 18 Showcase
Katherine Laterna
Katherine Laterna is a movement-based artist exploring the intersection of grace and rebellion. Existing between these realms, her practice merges grit with poise to investigate themes of self-contradiction, irony, and vulnerability. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Katherine received the Orloff Family Trust Award and a Graduate Artist Residency at Lucy Guerin Inc, where she developed her first choreographic work, At the Hands of Men.
She has since performed for Melanie Lane and Joel Bray, and continues to collaborate across music, visual arts, film, and fashion.
Jasmin Seale
Jasmin Seale is an artist working across video, print, and installation to explore the motivations and mechanisms behind acts of documentation. Her practice examines the individual as collector, the tension between purpose and obsession, and the DIY forms of archiving born from the urge to hold on to what might be lost.
She has completed a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University and holds a Bachelor of Design from Swinburne University of Technology.
Leon Rice-Whetton
Leon is an artist who works with sound and vision and installation. They are interested in the poetics and politics of infrastructure, cities, ecology and the time in which change happens. Leon lives and works on Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri country.
Emma X Zhang
Artist Emma X Zhang creates immersive light installations and audiovisual performances that bridge the digital and physical. Transforming source materials from microscopy and landscape archives across varying resolutions, she builds experiential works through hyper-colour and compressed abstraction. Recent exhibitions include Sorse Gallery and Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, with live audiovisual performances for Platform Presents and SIRC-UIT. She is currently developing a new body of work for an upcoming exhibition at Whitehorse Artspace.
Tanya Cubric
Tanya Cubric is an artist and curator based between Naarm/Melbourne and London, working across experimental video, performance, and installation. Drawing on her background in film and theatre, her practice creates playful and absurd scenarios that explore power, otherness, and self-authorship.
She has presented work with Firstdraft, RMIT Galleries, Kings ARI, SET Studios (London), Cambridge Junction, Teatro Medresesi (Izmir), and Earl Lu Gallery (Singapore). She is currently an ACMI X artist in residence and has received support from Arts Council England.
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