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In Episode 8, the final episode of season one of FIELD WORK, Drew Pettifer speaks to artist Raquel Ormella and Greens MP Adam Bandt about environmental activism and social change. Raquel Ormella is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses video, objects, drawing and writing. Her work l…

In Episode 7, Drew Pettifer speaks to artist Stelarc and Professor Peter Singer about bioethics, biotechnology and the body. Stelarc is a performance artist whose work explores and expands the concept of the body and its relationship with technology. He is renowned for his early body suspension pie…

In Episode 6, Drew Pettifer speaks to artist William Yang, the Hon Michael Kirby and academic Paul Sendziuk about queer rights, the AIDS pandemic and representation. William Yang is a prolific storyteller. His photographs and monologues with slide projections describe his experience of coming to te…

In Episode 5, Drew Pettifer speaks to artist Lyndal Walker, academic Ricarda Bigolin and curator Pippa Milne about the relationship between fashion and identity. Lyndal Walker’s work interrogates the construction of images, gender roles and our relationship to time. Fashion, as reference, subject m…

In Episode 4, Drew Pettifer speaks to artist Eugenia Lim, academic Carolyn D’Cruz and curator Paola Balla about the complexities of intersectional feminism. Eugenia Lim works across video, performance and installation. She is interested in how nationalism and stereotypes are formed, inventing perso…

In this Bonus Episode of FIELD WORK, Drew Pettifer speaks to the Director of the Sydney Biennale and the Director of the Adelaide Biennial about their visions for their biennales.

In Episode 3 of FIELD WORK, Drew Pettifer speaks to artist Yhonnie Scarce, academic Odette Kaleda and curator Clothilde Bullen about complex histories of Indigenous Trauma. Yhonnie Scarce is a Kokatha and Nukunu woman from South Australia. She uses the unlikely medium of glass to explore the treatm…

In Episode 2, Drew Pettifer unpacks Otherness with artist Abdul Abdullah, academic Professor Nikos Papastergiadis, and Mikala Tai, Director, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Abdul works across painting, photography, video, installation and performance. His projects have engaged with different …

FIELD WORK is a new podcast exploring the stories and contexts behind contemporary art in Australia. In each episode we’ll be unpacking an artist’s practice, interrogating the ideas behind their work with experts in their field and the artists themselves. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or…