“West Space Commission”
Tina Stefanou
14 Feb → 11 Apr 2026
Gallery

9-10 people wearing different coloured t-shirts gesturing outward with one hand toward the camera, gazing downward. They are standing on a pathway in a tropic green space surrounded by trees.
Tina Stefanou, 'Dance the War of Proximity' performance featuring young people as part of the '18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum', 2024, Art Gallery of South Australia. Photography by Andrew Kaineder and Wil Normyle

West Space presents the second chapter in a two-part project by Tina Stefanou, across two independent experimental arts organisations in Naarm/Melbourne, beginning with You Can't See Speed at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).

With a focus on relationality, knowledge sharing and impactful collaboration and innovation around questions of access, Stefanou works with an array of collaborators with different art and non-art backgrounds, across rural and urban Australia.

Stefanou contemplates how neoliberal-humanism and social class dynamics infiltrate our day-to-day lives as well as our sense of self, bodies, and relationships — affecting how we connect, communicate, and create liberation for one another and the planet. Her expansive practice holds the potential for other forms of sharing, making, and contributing to the cultural commons beyond the rat race.

"Tina Stefanou is an iconoclast—an artist who is tender yet uncompromising in her explorations of sound, community, collaboration, 'the rural' and settler-coloniality. In a strong field, the West Space Artist Committee was impressed by Tina's proposal for her most rigorous yet convivial body of work so far." —Eugenia Lim

This West Space Commission is supported by Creative Australia as part of their VACS Major Projects Commission. Presented in partnership with the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

Tina Stefanou is a Greek-Australian visual artist, performer, researcher, and filmmaker. With a background as a vocalist, she works undisciplined, with and across a diverse range of mediums, practices, approaches and labours: an embodied practice that she calls voice in the expanded field. As a means to seek more inclusive ways of making and to frame tangled relationships, she engages in multi-species performance with a family of local others, friends not-yet-made, and poet(h)ic meetings of matter. Informed by diasporic and working-class experiences, Tina engages in sound, filmography, and research as social practice, exploring with and beyond all-too-human and more-than-human vocalities. She works with multiple communities over long periods of time and locations through para-ethnographic field work, vocal workshops, performance making, and filmic traces.