Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Silence Awareness Existence program / FEBRUARY <strong>2020</strong><br />
Luna Mrozik Gawler<br />
Australia<br />
www.lunamrozikgawler.com<br />
About<br />
Luna Mrozik Gawler is a multidisciplinary artist and writer<br />
who lives and works upon the unceded lands of the Kulin<br />
Nation, in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia. Her research-led<br />
practice seeks to queer expectations of human supremacy<br />
and separatism while examining the ideological foundations<br />
and ramifications of Anthropocentric paradigms through<br />
installation, performance, media, and text. This work is<br />
often generated through direct collaboration with locations<br />
and multispecies participation. It is commonly durational,<br />
immersive and/or interactive, and considers alternative<br />
knowledge productions as well as embodied processes to<br />
expand upon post-human and new materialist frameworks.<br />
Lost in the woods and (re)composition<br />
The questions that <strong>Arteles</strong>, its silence and its complex<br />
ecologies, brought forward for me orbited knowledge<br />
production. How can method and outcome seek alternative<br />
pathways to knowing, and displace the anthropocentric<br />
inclinations of artist and audience in the meantime? How<br />
can we come to distrust the normalised and befriend the<br />
undulating discomfort of the uncanny? How do we extend<br />
sensory experience, change our sense of personhood or enter<br />
into multispecies and elemental conversation? In traversing<br />
the dark and knotty spaces of these questions I worked with<br />
the various inhabitants of landscape and the weather around<br />
<strong>Arteles</strong>. Disrupting my expectations and welcoming the<br />
trouble of new practices and impossible tasks, I attempted<br />
to not just deeply listen to the biosphere but identify the<br />
areas of exchange in which I participated, bodies on bodies<br />
co-authoring an inclusive conversation. I attempted to work<br />
with, and be guided by the material and agency of the site,<br />
attempting communication and translation with snow, soil,<br />
rain and wind in the process. Amongst the often odd and<br />
sometimes failing experiments I ended my time with several<br />
short video works, an installation, a performance for video,<br />
a new sensory tool for an on-going project and also began<br />
the theoretical work on an inclusive, material methodology<br />
for the composition of performance work. I also briefly got<br />
misplaced, and rediscovered in the woods, which really only<br />
helped in the long run.
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