Open Studio
Fiz Eustance and Tamar Gordon

We are so excited to host our first travelling artists in residence for the year.

Collaborators Fiz Eustance and Tamar Gordon arrived and are holding their first open studio at WTS.

Fiz is an artist and musician based on Naarm in Woiwurrung Wurundjeri country. Fiz’s creative practice is governed by play and a reciprocal relationship with site.

Tamar is a multi-disciplinary artist, poet and researcher, practicing collaboratively and solo on stolen Bunurong land. Their practice is community engaged, focused on exploring dissident Jewish identity, and the intersections of rituals, land, gender and grief.

Tamar and Fiz's practice overlaps through a shared interest in and value of being guided by chance and intuition, a commitment to interrogating settler-hood, and a shared exploration of gender. They will be traversing this overlap throughout their time at WTS.

Tamar and Fiz will be working in collaboration with sculpture, installation, videowork, poetry and participatory events to explore the concept of underlands.

They plan to hold 4 open studio events where they will be exploring questions such as:

-What is contained within many different underlands?

-How is the past stored within the land and within our bodies?

-How does what is stored in our underlands re-emerge in new forms?

-Can the underlands and what is stored within them show us ways towards healing? How can Jewish cultural, ancient ritualistic practice give us answers for honoring what is underneath us?

-How can we intentionally destroy?

-What intention allows for re(emergence)?

THUR 7 Feb

5:30-6:30PM

5:30PM: Open studio

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