“The place we do not know is the place we are looking for”
Laura McLean, Suvani Suri, Priyanka Chhabra, Uzma Falak, Merve Ertufan, Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Shareeka Helaluddin, Aarti Jadu & Claire de Carteret, Mochu, Rahee Punyashloka, Hayden Ryan, Thomas Smith, Joel Sherwood Spring, Aarti Sunder and Aasma Tulika
1 Feb → 29 Mar 2025

Laura McLean is a curator and researcher based in Naarm/Melbourne. As Associate Curator at Liquid Architecture and Artistic Director at Blindside, she works with experimental practices and critical ideas engaging sound, listening, and media technologies across Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

Suvani Suri is an artist, writer and curator in New Delhi, India. Suvani works with sound, text, and intermedia assemblages that think through modes of listening and voicing. Her artistic, research, and curatorial inquiries plumb the gaps, cracks, and leaks found within the technological processes of production, mediation and perception of sound.

Priyanka Chhabra is a film director and editor exploring themes of memory, landscape and relationships of people to places. She articulates her practice as an archaeology of silences, digging at sites characterised by trauma; physical and emotional. Her recent work focuses on reconciling memories and experiences of the Partition of Punjab (1947), Iqraar-naama being her most recent work on the subject.

Uzma Falak lives and works from Srinagar, Kashmir. She deploys mediums of film, sound, essay, memoir and reportage, poetry, subversive embroidery practice, ethnography and auto-ethnography, and found materials as forms of inquiries.

Merve Ertufan makes installations, videos and sounds. Her practice engages with what might be called the microphysics of the mind, observing inconsistencies, gaps and dead-ends in language and habit. Minor autobiographical fictions are made in the process, entangled in riddles and impossible stories.

Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker is a Nyungar technologist, writer, and digital rights activist living on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar. Their work explores custodial approaches to data management, interrogating systems of surveillance, and using creative technology to explore coding as a liberatory practice.

Shareeka Helaluddin is an experimental artist, radio producer and community facilitator; currently working on unceded Gadigal Country. Creating under the pseudonym akka, her sound practice explores temporality, drone, dissonance, memory, ritual and a pursuit of deeper listening. Her work is often grounded in notions of healing and reciprocity, attempting to use soundscapes as a place to find connection.

From a background of group devotional singing and folk tradition, Aarti Jadu seeks to integrate participatory work into contemporary composition and interactive works of art. Claire de Carteret is a ceramicist exploring clay chemistry, technologies, and resonating sculptural form. They share an interest in how listening rather than hearing, cultivates intimacy, subjective interpretation and reflection.

Mochu is an artist based between Dehli, India and Berlin, Germany. Mochu works with video and text arranged as installations, lectures and publications. Technoscientific fictions feature prominently in his practice, often modulated with anxiety, futurity and weird selfhoods, interspersed with cameos from art history and philosophy. Recent projects have explored cyberpunk nostalgia, corporate horror, mad geologies and psychedelic subcultures.

Rahee Punyashloka is an artist, writer, researcher, and experimental filmmaker based out of Bhubaneswar and New Delhi. Working across disciplines, he seeks to illuminate the vastly underrepresented artistic history of the anti-caste struggle and the Dalit identity.

Hayden Ryan is a Yuin First Nations sound scholar and spatial audio artist from the south east coast of New South Wales, currently in Naarm/Melbourne. His work centres Indigenous sonic and spatial practice, a concept that realises the inextricability of land, body sound and culture within Indigenous knowledge systems.

Thomas Smith is an Eora/Sydney based artist, musician, educator and researcher. His practice combines performance, video, electronic music, speculative fiction, websites, curatorial projects and critical writing. Thomas’ work is concerned with the social effects of computational systems, the politics of creative economies, emerging digital subjectivities and electronic music as a mode critical inquiry.

Joel Sherwood Spring is a Wiradjuri man raised between Redfern and Alice Springs who works across research, activism, architecture, installation and speculative projects. At present, his work focuses on the contested narratives of Sydney’s and Australia’s urban culture and indigenous history in the face of ongoing colonisation.

Aarti Sunder is an artist living and working in India. She works with moving image, writing, drawing and painting. Her interests lie within techno-politics, focusing on the study of infrastructure and society – from contemporary labour practices, fictional edges of protest, myth, and digital-terrestrial play to expanded platform politics.

Aasma Tulika is an artist based in Delhi. Her practice engages with moments that disturb belief systems, and their intersection with technology and social relations. She works with unwritten codes, fictional events and peer networks that appear in the form of video installations, sound albums, performances and publications.