Aarushi Zarthoshtimanesh is a passionate artist, student, writer, and mango lover. She identifies as an Indian-born queer woman, raised in Mumbai, India. Aarushi’s practice now thrives on Bidjigal and Gadigal land, where through the poetics of painting, installation, performance and moving image she wishes to materialise and spatialise the felt reality of displacement and re-examine what shapes and forms our social identities.

PACT Lab: PPE artist 2023

Agustin Elaskar is a queer Northern Rivers based emerging artist whose experimental performance and dance work is centred around the investigation of Queer identity, sex positivity, nostalgia, embodiment and expression using flavour as a novel stimuli. Immigrating from Argentina in 2019, he began his dance training on Gadigal and Bundjalung Country. After engaging in ‘Body/Landscape’ practise, his curiosity for embodied expression was reaffirmed.

PACT Lab: PPE artist 2023

Lakatoi is an acclaimed experimental producer and musician based in Naarm Melbourne. Leading various projects through the years, such as Kandere and FAMILI, he has been hailed as a forward-thinking innovator who weaves his own unique sound into all he touches. Lakatoi has performed at several festivals around Australia alongside international acts such as Leonce, Nozinja, Asmara, Lotic, Moor Mother, Elysia Crampton and Gaika.

PACT Lab: PPE artist 2023

Lucy Doherty is a dance artist, choreographer, and filmmaker. Trained in multiple styles of dance, she has made her mark on both stage and screen, captivating audiences with her compelling presence and emotionally charged performances. Lucy's work, shaped by personal experiences, explores themes of grief, mortality, and divinity.

PACT Lab: PPE artist 2023

A self-proclaimed local Icon & staple of nightlife and queer parties, Stelly G is a Gadigal-based Fijian performance artist with an anti-colonial practise that brings to the forefront the Pacific-diaspora experience.

PACT Lab: PPE artist 2023

Sabrina is an emerging dance artist interested in contemporary and experimental movement. Hailing from Northern NSW, Sabrina moved to Sydney, attending The McDonald College and completing a Bachelor of Dance (Academy of Music and Performing Arts). As a Scottish Highland dancer, Sabrina uses her Scottish heritage to inform her artistic practice and is currently examining the intersection between visceral movement and Highland dancing.

PACT Lab: PPE artist 2023

Vishnu Arunasalam is a Sri Lankan (Eelam) born Australian-raised emerging art-maker exploring the traditional dance medium of Bharatanatyam with a developing contemporary dance and multidisciplinary practice. His work explores his Queer South Asian diaspora identity within the contemporary Australian landscape.

PACT Lab: PPE artist 2023

Natalie Tso’s practice investigates bodily boundaries as metaphors for political boundaries through sculptures, installations and performances. She often performs acts driven by embodied knowledge that activates bodily dispersions. She then collects these bodily materials, including saliva, hair and skin to form sculptures. Her process is guided by layers of the body as a meeting of timelines and histories.

PACT Lab: PPE artist 2023

James Hazel is a composer, (sometimes artist) and researcher. As someone who lived in an underclass (social-housing) community for 14 years, James uses sound, language, and (re)performance to explore what it means to live, love, and listen under capitalist precarity - via a politics concerned with classed-labour, trauma, intimacy and care.

PACT Artist in Residence 2023

As a multidisciplinary artist, Savannah explores the broader practice of creative nonfiction writing, poetry, soundscaping and movement that synergises their experiences across time.

Savannah prioritises the body as a foundation of inherent knowledge, exploring the liminal space between mediums and how they communicate with each other.

PACT Practise Access Practice artist 2023, PACT Lab: IBTM artist 2022

Daley Rangi is a Māori antidisciplinary artist generating the unpredictable, speaking truth to power and reorienting hierarchies. For them, self-biographies are all-at-once discomforting, superfluous, and crucial, and in constant dialogue with colonial systems.

PACT Practise Access Practice artist 2023, PACT Lab: IBTM 2022

Cynthia Florek is an artist with Peruvian and Polish heritage. Her practice involves dance, movement, image making and holding space for community. Being nurtured by spaces that encourage collective healing and collective joy, Cynthia gravitates towards softness and care, but also resilience and urgency as themes in her practice.

PACT Practise Access Practice artist 2023, PACT Artist in Residence 2022

Jacqui O'Reilly is a Pākehā artist, researcher and musician from Aotearoa New Zealand, now based in Sydney. Her practice explores relations between people, place, media and perception within contexts of the ‘more-than-human’ world. She is interested in the creative act as acknowledgement of past happenings and as reparative futuring.

PACT Practise Access Practice artist 2023, PACT Lab: PPE artist 2022

Alex Craig is a Queer Blind dance artist and maker. Alex works collaboratively, opening and holding space for a collective experience of dance and storytelling not centred on the visual. Alex utilises choreography, poetic and score based texts, sound and creative Audio Description to create inclusive experiences that invite audiences to participate.

PACT Practise Access Practice artist 2023

Digby Webster is a Sydney-based visual artist with a career spanning 10 years. Digby works across a range of disciplines, and approaches art making as a part of his everyday life. He works in the mediums of oil pastels and acrylics. His work reflects strong evocative colours together with an expressive visual language of his own.

PACT Practise Access Practice artist 2023

M. Sunflower is a culturally diverse First Nations (Warmuli). Australian with disabilities. Her interdisciplinary practice encompasses photography, video, multimedia and installation, which she deploys to bring visibility to issues and experiences related to identity, trauma and disability.

PACT Practise Access Practice artist 2023

Adeeb Razzouk is an actor, theatre maker, voice performer and experimental artist unpacking memory as a tool for healing. While living and leaving Syria and Lebanon, Adeeb produced Forum Theatre works as an act of community resistance during the war.

PACT Artist in Residence 2023

Eliza Cooper has danced with Opera Australia, Catapult Dance Company, Dance Makers Collective and worked as a performance artist for Justene Williams, Nick Cave and Offerings. Eliza’s interests are ancestral movement, animal movement, embodiment practices, character play and improvised performance.

PACT Artist in Residence 2023

Eliza Scott is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, drag, sound and film. Their practice investigates the use of movement, technology and sound in live performance - through the use of loop pedals, live-feed and audio-trickery. Eliza is looking forward to co-creating and debuting their new show Eugene with Force Majeure in October this year.

PACT Artist in Residence 2022

Frank Dwyer is an emerging composer and sound designer exploring the sounds of human activity, and the relationships between these sounds through electro-acoustic soundscapes and installation-based work. He is interested in acoustic approaches to placemaking that may help foster sustainable urban ecosystems.

PACT Artist in Residence 2022

Charlotte Salusinszky is an actor, writer and theatre-maker who draws from devised and autobiographical performance practices as a starting point for exploring identity, place and memory. Central to this work is the body, whose lived experience she uses to talk about, and to talk back to, both dominant and forgotten histories.

PACT Artist in Residence 2022

Em Size is a writer and performer living on unceded Gadigal land. They’re currently writing an erotic novel and training to be a physical comedy jock. They are interested in the transformational and political aspects of desire and humour; worldburning in comedy, erotica, and everyday speech acts; and queer and trans aesthetics.

PACT Artist in Residence 2022

Béatrice Barbeau-Scurla is a writer, producer and comedian, their work focuses on finding humour in mental illness, inter-generational trauma and queerness; offering a varied and extremely personal body of work. As a comedian they have opened for acts such as Will Anderson.

PACT Artist in Residence 2022

Katya Petetskaya is a visual artist working across performance art, painting and installation. Born in the Soviet Union, she grew up through the change of regimes in 90’s Russia which continues to have an impact on her practice today. Her work embodies a way in which she attempts to interpret, process and better understand the accelerated changes of the world.

PACT Artist in Residence 2022

Ryan Whitworth is a Sydney based, Indigenous and LGBTQIA+ identifying Director and Drama educator whose directorial work includes Cheats and Liars Jawbreakers Music Video (Triple J). Jamie Whitworth is a Sydney based photographer, public speaker and disability advocate whose work includes being the Northcott ambassador.

PACT Artist in Residence 2022