Loren Kronemyer in Esperance
Artist: Lauren Kronemyer (she/her), TAS
Work: In progress
Location: Kepa Kurl, Esperance, Western Australia
Community partner: The Cannery Arts Centre
About the Artist:
Loren Kronemyer is an artist living and working in remote Lutruwita/Tasmania. Her works span objects, interactive and live performance, experimental media art, and large-scale world building projects aimed at exploring ecological futures and survival skills. She works solo, and in collaboration as Pony Express. Her approach of deep and immersive research has led her to foster collaborations with a number of niche societies, labs, and specialists. These include Australia's last broom factory, from whom she learned to make millet brooms for the project Millennial Reaper; and the World Archery federation, from whom she earned a coaching qualification for her project After Erika Eiffel, and the scientists at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, with whom she developed her show Receiver. She received the first Masters of Biological Arts Degree from SymbioticA Lab at the University of Western Australia and is a PhD Candidate at the University of Tasmania. Her work has been hosted by Santarcangelo Festival (Italy), Forum of the Future (Portugal), Interformat Symposium (Lithuania), Dark Mofo (AU), Liveworks (AU), Next Wave (AU), PICA, Perth Festival, The School of Visual Art (New York), and the International Symposium of Electronic Arts. She is now the Artistic Director of The Unconformity, an organisation that develops and presents experimental art in the West Coast of Tasmania.
About the community Parter:
The Cannery Arts Centre is a dynamic community led arts facility presenting contemporary visual art exhibitions, live music events and engaging creative learning programs. Nestled on the scenic Kepa Kurl-Esperance foreshore, and housed in a heritage fish Cannery, artists are inspired and supported in artistic endeavours in shared transformative spaces. Transcending geographical boundaries, the Cannery brings global cultural riches to the region while fostering networks and pathways for capacity building and two-way learning. The centre celebrates and nurtures creativity, fostering connections, collaborating to create a vibrant arts and cultural landscape enriching the lives of community members and visitors.
Loren Kronemyer, Epoch of Reionization, Video Still, 2017, Courtesy of International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
