PACT Lab: Process, Play, Experiment (PPE) is back in September - October 2025!
EOIs close: Friday 1 August 2025 3:00pm AEST
What is PPE?
PPE is PACT’s unique multi-arts incubator for emerging artists. It is a full-time, two-week lab intensive that supports eight emerging artists in building their skills, experimenting with form and evolving their craft to its next stage. If you've been waiting for an opportunity to explore performance-making tools, methods and practices in a collaborative environment... then PPE is for you!
The PPE program will be divided into masterclasses led by our renowned Associate Artists and guests, alongside residency space and support to develop a project.
And, to round off the program, PPE artists hold a public showing (at PACT) of the works they have developed during the residency.
Each participant is paid a $1000 honorarium. There is a small travel bursary available for artists travelling from interstate or regional areas (within Australia).
When is PPE?
Artists must be available to attend the program in full from 28 Sep - 11 Oct 2025.
In addition to a daily 9.30am-6pm schedule of facilitated masterclasses and shared development, artists will have access to the PACT space until 10pm each day to develop their work.
Who is PPE for?
Artists who are:
in their first ten years of practice;
open towards experimentation; and
excited by the rigour of studio practice and a collaborative learning environment.
Projects that:
explore new performance forms and practices;
can benefit from the incubator environment of the lab; and
have a clearly articulated and compelling central idea.
Projects can be at any stage of development, but you must have a minimum of five minutes of performance material ready to share on day one.
What do I need to apply?
To apply for PPE we ask that you fill out an online form.
The form will lead you through a series of questions that ask you about your artistic/creative practice and the project/idea will bring to work on in the lab.
You will also need to provide examples of your work (audio or video) to support your application.
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Claudia Chidiac is a creative producer and arts worker with over 20 years of experience shaping inclusive, community-driven arts across Greater Sydney. Her practice blends festival curation with collaborative projects like The Village by The Kids, where she collaborates with children to create immersive audio experiences and sound walks in neighbourhoods. Claudia has worked as Theatre Producer at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Artistic Director of Powerhouse Youth Theatre. A 2024 Creative Australia Ros Bower Award recipient, she currently serves on the board of Monkey Baa Theatre Company, and Arts and Cultural Exchange (ACE), Parramatta.
Jazz Money (currently on parental leave) is a Wiradjuri poet and artist whose practice is centred in poetics to produce works that encompass installation, performance, film and print. Their writing and art has been presented, performed and published nationally and internationally. Jazz’s first poetry collection, the best-selling how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) was the 2020 winner of the David Unaipon Award. Their recently released second collection mark the dawn (UQP, 2024) is the 2024 recipient of the UQP Quentin Bryce Award. Trained as a filmmaker, Jazz’s first feature film is WINHANGANHA (2023), commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive.
Martin del Amo is a choreographer and dancer with 30 years of professional experience. He is acclaimed for his solos fusing idiosyncratic movement and intimate storytelling, and, more recently, as a creator of group works and solos for others. Programmed by many major festivals and venues across the country, his work has toured nationally and internationally. Martin’s contribution to the Australian arts sector as a teacher, dramaturg, dance writer and mentor to emerging artists has been recognised with the 2024 Creative Australia Award for Dance, the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance (2018), and the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship (2015).
Victoria Hunt is an Australian-born artist with Te Arawa, Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongowhakaata, English, Irish, Scottish, Norwegian lineages born on Kombumerri Country (Gold Coast). Her work delves into Moana-nui-a-kiwa Oceanic epistemologies. She is a dance artist, choreographer, director, dramaturg, filmmaker, and photographer. Her practice reinstates IndigiQueer futurity—grounded in Mātauranga Māori and BodyWeather—within the politics of Rematriation. A founding dancer with De Quincey Co. (2000–2024), Hunt is a leading figure in Australia’s BODYWEATHER practice.
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Thinking about submitting an application for PACT Lab: Process, Play, Experiment but have questions?
Check out our PPE Q&A with advice from PACT Executive Director/CEO Justine Shih Pearson.
Got questions?
Send us an email
info@pact.net.au
PACT Lab: Process, Play, Experiment has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.