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 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.
28 October Showcase
Gabrielle Skye Nehrybecki
Gabrielle Skye Nehrybecki is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist working across sculpture, installation, sound, moving image and performance. Her practice explores ecological transformation, cycles of life and death and relationships between human and more-than-human worlds.
She is a recipient of the Majlis Travelling Scholarship and an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Emerging Artist Grant.
FILTH Collective
FILTH is Andrea Meacham, Anna Schwann, Lewis Gittus and Sarah Walker.
They work across sound, video, installation and sculpture, making works that sit in the realm of the strange, the sloppy, the spooky and the surreal. They draw ravenously from high and low culture: from Gothic literature, schlock cinema and messed up televisual nostalgia to the occult, the inane, the operatic and the obscene.
Irtiza Malik
Irtiza Malik is a Kashmiri artist and researcher, currently living in Narrm. With a background in history and visual arts, her practice explores how time operates within the contested territories, tracing the entanglements of occupation and resistance. She uses the moving image as both document and inquiry; to reimagine ways of witnessing and to question the authority of the visual in representing lived histories.
Her ongoing work examines how visual and sonic practices can reclaim temporality and narrate resistance from Kashmir .
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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