Instagram: @laradorling

Born in 2000, Lara (she/they) is slowly cultivating a writing and dancing practice, that is making its way into digital and sound forms and spaces. After graduating with Honours in Dance Performance from WAAPA in 2023, Lara has spent most of her time practicing improvisational performance and building a sustainable and connected artistic community in Boorloo through her Make-Shift Evenings performance platform. They have begun developing the beginnings of a solo (probably life’s) work, and are building, through iterative improvisational performances, a generative practice with Saskia Willinge and Daisy Sanders, respectively. Lara is currently busy collaborating with Zendra Giraudo and Mackenzie Brown and bringing their collective practices into online spaces/stages/world, using motion capture, virtual reality and live digital performance. Lara sees their work as an accumulation of family, migration, language, movement, conversations, and friends; their desire is to build more collective care and trust through learning to listen more.

Instagram: @daisysanders28

Daisy Sanders (she/her, WAAPA BA Dance 2013 with 2017 First Class Honours) is a Boorloo-based multidisciplinary artist, researcher and creative leader. Her 15-year dance improvisation practice is grounded in somatics, cycles of energy, nuanced materiality and live interpersonal exchange. Protracted experience of chronic illness (2015-20) led Daisy to develop a rest-focused dance methodology and a deeply considered approach to building caring, sustainable creative ecologies. She devises and produces immersive choreographic works (including A Resting Mess 2016-24, Womb for World Weeping, Room to Rest 2021 and was University of Otago’s 2023 Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance, Aotearoa. Daisy is a company artist for Sensorium Theatre and pvi collective and the incoming 2025 Artistic Director of Stompin Youth Dance Company.

Instagram: @pollittjoanna

Jo Pollitt (she/her) lives and works on Whadjuk Noongar Country as an artist scholar and Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University (ECU) with WAAPA and the Centre for People, Place & Planet. Her research is grounded in a twenty-year practice of working with improvisation and writing as dancing as methodology across multiple performed, choreographic, curatorial and publishing platforms.  She is convenor of Dance Research Australasia, co-lead of #FEAS: Feminist Educators Against Sexism, and author of The dancer in your hands < >. Jo is currently working on a multi- year research creation project titled ‘Staging Weather’ developing creative responses to the increasing instability of everyday weather amid precarious climate futures.

Instagram: @anniikamoses

I (Annika Moses, she/her) live and make on Whadjuk Noongar land in Boorloo (Perth), so-called Australia. On this land I also like to write, play, listen, and sew. 

Nika Mo is a moniker under which I perform and release alt/freak-folk music. Great Statue is the music and ‘performance art’ moniker through which I channel the still-living Laurie Anderson in karaoke drag. I perform and contribute to the musical projects Didion’s Bible and Lyndon Blue. I organise and curate with Tone List, a Boorloo-based label for exploratory music. I cut hair for strictly no money but will accept trades, handmade gifts, treasures, beers and/or favours. I also focus attention towards nourishing non-human-animal relationships, specifically with my small, wiry-haired dog, Kendrick. 

I approach broadcast and community radio as resources for practicing collective attention, attunement and listening. I co-present Drivetime with Doug Swamp, a weekly segment on community radio station RTRFM 92.1 which airs every Monday from 5-7PM (AWST). I also belong to the Difficult Listening collective, a radio segment for experimental music on Sunday nights 9-11PM; you can catch my selections every month-ish. My previous works for the radio medium include Whitegums are standing with their feet in the water (2018) and Listen to the distance between us (2019), which was commissioned for Moonah Community Radio by Sisters Akousmatica [Lutruwita]. 

Across some of the year I facilitate creative projects in Tura’s regional program, and through this work I spend time on Martu and Gija lands in the East Pilbara and Kimberley, and also in Fitzroy Crossing on the banks of the Martuwarra river. This is Bunuba land, but since colonial settlement and the forced displacement of many Aboriginal people in the region, it has also become home to Walmajarri, Gooniyandi and Wangkatjungka language groups, as well as many others. I am extremely privileged to facilitate sound-based projects with these communities and to be welcomed onto their country.  

My work has been premiered and exhibited in festivals including Totally Huge New Music Festival, Fairbridge Festival, Audible Edge, FRINGEWORLD, WAMfest and Sound Spectrum, and installation works at Cullity Gallery and Mundaring Arts Centre. This year Great Statue was nominated for Best Experimental Act in the WAM Awards, and in 2019 Nika Mo was nominated for Best Folk act and Most Popular New Act. In 2016 I was awarded the Robert Juniper Award for the Arts. My work has been commissioned by Liquid Architecture [Naarm] the National Gallery of Australia [Ngambri country], Sisters Akousmatica [Lutruwita], Tura and Decibel Ensemble.

Instagram: @saskia.robin

Saskia Willinge (she/her) is a flautist and singer who is active in the local improvisation scene. She has played at events and venues including Audible Edge, Kinds of Light, Tune Noise Tune, Outcome Unknown, NoizeMachin!!, Melville Midwinter, the Fremantle Arts Centre, and in Naarm at the Brunswick Green and Make It Up Club. She is a member of the Sound Exploration Fremantle team, and co-founder/ co-curator of the Walyalup Weekend of Improvised Music alongside Izzy French. In 2024 she has participated in the Perth Festival Lab, pvi collective’s KISS Club, and co-curated an exhibition for Cool Change Contemporary at PS Art Space. She is a big fan of community and can’t help connecting people and uplifting fellow emerging artists wherever she goes.

Instagram: @realjanestark

Jane Stark (she/her) is an improvising and ambient musician, percussionist and more, based in Boorloo.

Her passions include writing and performing the music she loves, which includes microtonal ambient, no-input noise, groove-based experimental rock, industrial techno, gentle ambient pop, and much more. 

Her improvised practices include responses to unpredictable, and sometimes capricious, feedback loops. She is inspired by the organic sounds which can emerge from simple mechanical processes; drawing on the work of Alvin Lucier to use situation-specific elements as equal (if unpredictable) collaborators.