Current Residents Harriet Gillies
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Harriet Gillies, production still "33 Pieces" Photo Bronte Godden
Harriet Gillies makes post-internet performance works exploring sex, death and capitalism. Working across theatre, live art and participatory formats, she builds nonlinear, parafictional environments that invite audiences into strange, destabilising encounters. Her practice centres interdisciplinary collaboration and rigorous experimentation, moving away from logocentric storytelling toward embodied, intuitive and emotional ways of knowing. Through ritual, language and choreographic structure, she creates entertaining, unsettling and sometimes transcendent experiences that challenge individualism and offer temporary alternatives to capitalist, patriarchal time.
At HIAP, I will explore collapse not as singular disaster but as something durational, ambient and lived within. I am excited to use the residency to move into a different somatic relationship to time, asking how ecological instability stretches the present through anticipation and loss. Through moving image, writing and embodied research, I will experiment with careful observation, ocean-based attention, and analogue and lo-fi digital processes that mirror erosion and decay. I am drawn to ritual and grief practices as ways of marking change while it unfolds, and to how art might help us feel time differently in ongoing transformation.
The residency is realised with the support of Creative Australia.