KIERA BREW KUREC

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Images courtesy of the artist:

Gestures

An Attempt to Harmonise

Kiera Brew Kurec’s practice is concerned with performance as a means for transformation through the agencies of time, endurance, environmental conditions and cultural practices. Her work includes live performance, performance for video, photography and sculpture.

In 2015 she graduated with a MFA from the VCA with first class honours. Her practice led research which explored Performance, Ritual and Transformation, located the history of contemporary performance practice in ancient ritual.

Brew Kurec’s practice is also concerned with the ethical, historical and current modes of the presentation and archiving of performance art. In 2011 / 2012 she interned at Franklin Furnace, a leading institution in the conservation and archiving of performance practice located in New York. In 2019 she returned to New York to undertake a research project observing current best practice techniques for archiving performance at MoMA archives, NYU Fales Special Collections, Franklin Furnace and the Asian Art Archive in America.

Brew Kurec has exhibited and performed extensively through Australia as well as New York, Oregon, Berlin and Penang. She is the recipient of multiple grants and awards including the Creative Victoria Sustain Grant, City of Melbourne Annual Arts Grant, and various Australia Council for the Arts grants and has undertaken residencies in Penang, Berlin, Oregon, New York, Melbourne, Mildura and Gippsland.

Brew Kurec is also the co-creator of the arts industry podcast Pro Prac.

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