Artist: Sarah Rodigari Work in progress Location: Ravensthorpe, Western Australia Community partner: Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council
About the artist: Sarah Rodigari is an artist whose practice addresses the social and political potential of art. Her work is site responsive, employing, durational live-action, improvisation, and dialogical methodologies to produce text-based performance and installations. Rodigari has worked with and within various contexts and institutions. These include the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), the 20th Biennale of Sydney, MUMA, Melbourne International Arts Festival, ACCA, The Poetry Project (NYC) Cemeti Arts House (Indonesia), PACT Zollverein (Germany) and SOMA (Mexico City). She holds a PhD in Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong and is member of the collective Field Theory.
About the community partner: Situated in the remote rural Shire of Ravensthorpe, the Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council (RRAC) is a volunteer-based incorporated organisation that provides a diverse and adventurous arts program of events throughout the region annually. Through artistic activity RRAC builds community cohesion, identity and inclusiveness.