Jo Higgins

October 1, 2020

Writings, Events

Art Collector: Pull Focus interviews for Sydney Contemporary

Jo Higgins

October 1, 2020

Writings, Events

In the absence of the annual Sydney Contemporary Art Fair at Carriageworks thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, Art Collector magazine has been inviting writers to sit down with artists who are participating in the Fair’s virtual edition to chat about one specific work. I was excited to have the chance to talk with artists Karen Black and Mason Kimber and my (very animated…) conversations with them are below. I don’t think I have a career in television journalism ahead of me (the ratio of thrilling : terrifying too razor thin apart from anything else!) but I will always say yes to the chance to sit down with someone and unpick why and how they do what they do.

Apologies for the lack of subtitles on the films (you can turn on closed captions if you watch them in YouTube.)

Watch Jo Higgins in conversation with artist Karen Black about her work 'Tangled', showing at showing at Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020 with Sullivan + St...

Watch Jo Higgins in conversation with artist Mason Kimber about his work 'Window - Luna', showing at Sydney Contemporary Presents with Kronenberg Mais Wright...

SAMAG Talk - Bringing it home: Innovation & Ideas from the Churchill Fellowship

Jo Higgins

June 8, 2020

Events

I’ve been invited by the Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group (SAMAG) to join a panel discussion next week, with my fellow Fellows, Morwenna Collett and Patricia Adjei to reflect on our experiences and learnings undertaking Churchill Fellowships. I can’t believe it’s been 12 months now since I got back and so much has happened in that time - it’s going to be interesting to see how all of our findings and recommendations necessarily recalibrate in response. I’m just so grateful I had the opportunity to go last year…

Tickets are available via the link but the whole discussion should be posted to the website soon after.

Monday 13 June 2020

6.30 - 7.30pm

Zoom

MCA GENEXT Goes Online

Jo Higgins

June 1, 2020

Events

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I can’t imagine that anybody’s 2020 is unfolding in quite the way they had imagined. At some point I hope to have the headspace for reflection and clarity and calls to action (assuming we ever get to a post-COVID world…) but the temporary shuttering of the MCA has meant the cancellation of all my scheduled programs this year, including GENEXT.

Over the last few months I’ve been supporting the MCA Youth Committee and Young Guides, experimenting with new forms of digital communication, art-making, activism, wellbeing and youth-led public programming, to re-imagine GENEXT for an online audience, taking inspiration from the 22nd Biennale of Sydney and this strange, exhausting, uncertain time we’re now living in.

On Sunday 31 May 2020 we launched GENEXT Goes Online, which included live-streamed performances and panel talks, all MC’d by the Youth Committee, as well as a (frankly phenomenal) collection of digital content including zines, quizzes, artist interviews and guided making activities, VR exhibition spotlight talks, an Auslan visual storytelling workshop, interactive creative prompts and a live dance class.

At some stage I will find the time to come back to this post and reflect more thoughtfully on what I’ve learned from this experience but for now, I’d just encourage you to take a digital wander through the program here.

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