for the circular movement of knowledge is an online series of conversations where artists create new relationships with peers through knowledge exchange.
During one-week digital residencies, 6 Utp artists will engage in exchange with a collaborator who holds knowledge in an area of interest to them. At the end of the week they will open up their digital space to share their learnings with audience via video and podcast presentations.
Episode 1 - Jagath Dheerasekara in conversation with Neha Kale (June 30 2022)
KEY CREATIVES
Jagath Dheerasekara in conversation with Neha Kale
Emele Ugavule in conversation with Steev Laufilitoga Maka
Debra Keenahan in conversation with JulieMc McNamara
Gillian Kayrooz in conversation with Cindy Trinh
Feras Shaheen
KEY DETAILS
June - November 2022
EMELE UGAVULE
Emele Ugavule is a Tokelauan Fijian storyteller. Her research and practice area of interest is Oceanic Indigenous-led storytelling, working across live performance, film, tv & digital media as a writer, director, creative producer, performer, educator and mentor.
JAGATH DHEERASEKARA
Jagath is an Amnesty International Human Rights Innovation Fund Grant recipient. He lives and works in southwest Sydney. He was forced to leave Sri Lanka due to his political and human rights activism and was granted political asylum in France in the early 1990s. His multidisciplinary practice is chiefly informed by his personal and collective memory and the incidents of fragility of the principles of humanity.
GILLIAN KAYROOZ
Gillian Kayrooz is an artist from Western Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours) from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. In 2018 she was awarded the Create NSW Young Creative Leaders Fellowship which led her to exhibit internationally in the Asia-Pacific region.
DEBRA KEENAHAN
Debra Keenahan is a visual artist, psychologist, academic and author. Her achondroplasia dwarfism informs her art, teaching and writing by focussing upon the personal and social im- pacts of disability. ... Currently, Debra lectures at Western Sydney University in Humanitarian and Development Studies.
FERAS SHAHEEN
Feras Shaheen’s art practice spans across performance, semiotics, street dance and digital media. Shaheen was born in Dubai to Palestinian parents and moved to Sydney at the age of 11. Drawing from his Hip Hop dance background as well as Palestinian cultural dance traditions, Shaheen traverses different roles within the arts, working as a performer, teacher, choreographer and digital artist. He holds a Bachelor in Design from Western Sydney University (2013) and in addition to his artistic practice works as a freelance graphic designer, photographer and videographer.
IMAGE CREDIT
Akil Ahamat
PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body
This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW
This project is supported by the Crown Resorts Foundation and the Packer Family Foundation