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.
18 November Showcase
Quinn Franks
Quinn Franks is a Narrm-based 3D artist and animator who uses emerging technologies across film and interactive media to create surreal character driven work. Quinn’s work often explores themes of isolation, interpersonal tension, delusion and identity through a combination of new media, bizarre imagery and unhinged characters, in particular creatures.
He is currently developing an experimental video game BRINE POOL which is being informed by a series of video works.
Cohen Dix
Cohen Dix is an artist working across an expanded practice based in sculpture, video, performance and installation. Often combining these mediums, his work explores the theoretical spaces of pre-renaissance mysticism, esotericism, ritual and materialism.
His work seeks to explore the unlikely harmonies that exist between seemingly disparate logics; those of the purely physical, and those of the emotive, tonal and spiritual.
Alfons Wiberg
Alfons Wiberg is a Melbourne based audio engineer and sound enthusiast. His work aims to translate ideas and emotions into an immersive audio experience, drawing inspiration from Minimalism & Musique concretè.
Using fragmented dialogue from old personal VHS tapes and electro-magnetic field recordings, he creates abstract soundscapes exploring memory, grief, and the passage of time.
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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