KATERINA KOKKINOS-KENNEDY & SARAH WALKER
KATERINA KOKKINOS-KENNEDY & SARAH WALKER
TRIAGE LIVE ART COLLECTIVE
Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy is the artistic director of Triage Live Art Collective, a company that creates immersive, intimate, and site-specific works for participating audiences. She has more than 25 years of experience as a director, writer, dramaturge, and actor trainer. Her work has been commissioned internationally and Triage has toured to festivals across Australia and Europe. Katerina is a recipient of the Australia Council two-year Theatre Fellowship in recognition of her exceptional arts practice and leadership. Her works focus on challenging ideas, and existential questions, leading audiences to contact their deeper desires, fears, to explore their vulnerability and the preciousness of their lives within the artistic encounter.
Sarah Walker is a Geelong-based artist, writer, and photographer. Her art practice uses comedy, narrative, and speculative fiction to create surprising encounters with tensions around death, disaster, and catastrophe. She works with immersive binaural sound works, video, and text-based installations. She has created work for major institutions including the NGV and Geelong Gallery, collaborated on theatre, live art and festivals, and worked extensively with communities across Australia and internationally. She has an MFA from RMIT. She is a Walkley-nominated critic. Her essay collection, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying, won the 2021 Quentin Bryce Award. She is particularly interested in art as a mode of engaging with future fear.
Through the Platform LAB Creative Development, Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy and Sarah Walker will research and develop Rich and Strange, a site-responsive, immersive, and participatory audio-based performance for Eastern Beach, Geelong. The work explores our human relationship with the sea as a site of nourishment, danger, mystery, threat and transcendence. The sea is the birthplace of humanity, of myth, an unseen world brimming with life, and now, a place deeply compromised by environmental crisis.
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