Wet Seasoning residency
Artists Tiyan Baker and M@ Cornell spent two weeks in residence at Testing Grounds, adjacent to The Queen Victoria Market, as part of our All School EXCHANGE programming.
All School EXCHANGE is about bringing artists together from across different states and territories to share practice and ideas. All School is Next Wave’s artist-led learning platform – all the good stuff that comes with prioritising the process over the product.
Throughout the residency, M@ built Sci-Fi choreographies and texts through his speculative-physical-futuring process. He was joined in by fellow artists Nasim Patel and Anthony Hamilton.
Tiyan continued her research into the links between Bidayǔh bamboo culture and its attendant linguistics, and will be joined in that effort by artist James Nguyen.
The residency concluded with an invite-only open studio, as well as well a public Equatorial fruit-opening party curated by M@ and Tiyan – held on Saturday 3 February.
This exchange builds on last year’s Market Market exchange up on Larrakia Country (Darwin), which saw five Next Wave artists head north for a creative exchange during Darwin Festival.
Testing Grounds
391 Queen St, Narrm/Melbourne
This event was supported by
Tiyan Baker
Tiyan Baker is an artist who works with installation, photography, video and sculpture. Her practice draws on historical research, language, digital processes and material play to trace unseen relationships between words, place and stories. Centring her Bidayǔh culture in her works, Baker is also interested in things she has unknowingly inherited. Living far from native lands, culture and family, in the midst of the (re)colonisation of Borneo, she explores all that can be mistranslated or lost, and what can manifest in its place. She has shown her works widely across Australia, and is the winner of the 2022 National Photography Prize awarded by the Murray Art Museum Albury.
She was born and raised on the Larrakia lands known as Darwin and currently lives and works on the Awabakal lands known as Newcastle, Australia.
Photo by Lucy Alcorn
M@ Cornell
Matt Cornell leverages Sci-Fi world building to co-create choreography.
The Mattmosphere composes award winning music for dance, installation and film.
馬特 regularly works from C-LAB (臺灣當代文化實驗場) interrogating choreography as a cultural technology.
M@ recently co-created Fully Automated Human Touch with Merinda Davies.
His writing has been published in international journals, magazines and wikis.
He also a touring dancer, currently in Stunt Double by The Farm.
Photo: Matt Cornell and Lucky Lartey and Vicki Van Hout, Danced Together by Matt Cornell