MISCHA BAKA

F Projects Residency, WarrnamboolLeaving Melbourne, I ventured to the F Projects Residency in Warrnambool with a longing for space—both physically and mentally. A coastal residency away from the city was a chance to breathe, but it was also a personal investigation. I grew up in Pearl Beach, a small town near Sydney. I associated Pearl Beach with an idealised, vague and half imagined vision of an artistic haven: artists and creatives forming a community...

 It is peak hour on a Tuesday evening. I dodge black umbrellas and run across wet cement noting as always, that this far into Melbourne there is always a plastic-wrapped capitalist sheen to the bastard honking streets. Forty-Five Downstairs is an art gallery located in the lungs of the city and tonight is the opening of Rebekah Stuart’s latest exhibition, Orison. I’ve known Stuart for more than five years and this exhibition is evidence of her...

 A photograph for Deans show: The Buffel Harvestrom artist Dean West, The Buffel Harvest is an experimental performance orbiting around a live demonstration of how to grow Oyster Mushrooms using Central Australian weed species Buffel Grass as a substrate. The demonstration takes you through harvest, pasteurisation, inoculation, incubation and finally harvest again. The demonstration is accompanied by projected videos, talks from...

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 The original sound for this video was windy audio from the camera microphone. It has been replaced with audio recordings that intend to heighten the feeling of the location and sense of falling into the natural soundscape. Made with Aarti Jadu...