PICA welcomes artists from local and international locations as part of our expanded Residencies Program. Hear from Boorloo-based artist David Attwood about his Hyper Local Residency and Makassar-based artist Azimah Fada as part of BREEZE: Perth-Makassar Residency Exchange. Learn more about their research, practice and the development of their project as part of their residency at PICA in conversations facilitated by Rachel Cieśla, Lead Creative of the Simon Lee Foundation Institute of Contemporary Asian Art at The Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Attwood and Fada will also be joined by the School of Critical Arts, a not-for-profit association from Boorloo that promotes critical approaches to ideas, art, and society in a friendly environment of enquiry, reflection, and debate.
With food and drink on us, it’s a chance to celebrate the vibrant arts ecology at PICA which brings together artists from all disciplines, providing space, time and support to create work, explore new ideas and experiment with their practice.
Hyper Local artist-in-residence David Attwood is developing a series of sculptures using domestic appliances. His work is informed by the ideas of Frances Gabe, an artist and inventor who spent much of her life exploring the possibilities of a self-cleaning house and the writing of Helen Hester, a theorist interested in post-work alternatives to housework.
Azimah Fada is the inaugural exchange artist visiting PICA as part of BREEZE: Perth-Makassar Residency Exchange, which forges connections between WA and Makassan artists with a particular focus on the relationship between Aboriginal Australian and Makassan cultures since pre-colonisation. She will research the similarities in cultural musical instruments in Australia and Indonesia to examine the connection between music and storytelling.
