Curators Floortalk
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Experimenta Life Forms explores the changing understandings of life in unexpected, playful and challenging ways. Join exhibition curators Jonathan Parsons, Lubi Thomas and Jessica Clark for a unique guided tour of the exhibition, delving into the artists’ works and the exhibitions’ thought-provoking themes.
Featuring 26 contemporary Australian and International artists working across diverse artforms – including robotics, bio-art, screen-based works, installations, participatory and generative art – the exhibition makes significant contribution to current dialogues around defining life across science, technology, biology and First Nations Epistemology.
Experimenta is the future of art, presenting work that is poised on the intersect between art, science and technology. Since its inception in 1986, Experimenta has developed a worldwide reputation for fostering creativity that extends the aesthetic, conceptual and experiential potential of art forms. Experimenta presents art that can not be experienced elsewhere, imagining the future of art and exploring unchartered pathways towards it.
This exhibition is presenting at Tweed Regional Gallery (Murwillumbah, NSW), 10 December 2021 – 30 January 2022 and touring nationally until 2024.
About the Speakers:
Lubi Thomas
Lubi Thomas - Experimenta Emergence Curator
Lubi Thomas
Lubi Thomas is an experienced digital and new media curator whose work has significantly contributed to the cultural landscape over the past 20 years through exhibitions, projects, festivals, and transdisciplinary programming.
She has developed cultural policy models for precincts, councils, and institutions, collaborating with global organisations like LEGO Education and Ars Electronica to establish spaces and opportunities for artists to develop and present work. With over forty exhibitions, many touring nationally and internationally, Lubi has extensive experience. Her focus lies at the intersection of Art, Technology, Science, and Society, enabling her to engage with contemporary practice addressing environmental and societal issues. Lubi’s adaptable approach has allowed her to successfully present projects in traditional galleries and unconventional spaces.
Her key tenet is that Art is a language of ideas, through which she aims to present contemporary Art that ignites emotional and intellectual responses within the broader community. Lubi works and consults locally, nationally, and internationally, including with Experimenta since 2013. Lubi is based in Quadamoka Country.
Jessica Clark
Jessica Clark
Jessica Clark is a proud pallawah woman and a curator of contemporary art living and working on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne). She currently holds the position of Yalingwa Curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2022-24). Jessica has a background in art history and art education and has been working in varying independent and collaborative curatorial roles since 2017. She is currently undertaking a curatorial practice-led PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne that is focussed on investigating intercultural curatorial models for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian art.
