Sweat Collective and biannual experiments
The Sweat Collective are artists living on Larrakia Country utilising and investigating new ways of being and creating alongside each other in the environmental, cultural, and community melting pot of Darwin.
Collective members Creates a biannual program of participatory, experimental, durational, cross artform and site specific works that celebrate and interrogate the rituals of the Build Up - new, old, and impossible.
2020-2021: Sweat Season: an immersive experience embracing natural cycles in a year of disruption
2019: Sweat Season: a celebration of sweaty durational rituals celebrating the build up
Sweat collective artists
Current
Jenelle Saunders
Lee Harrop
Britt Guy
Past
Shaun Lee (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
Haneen Martin (2019, 2020, 2021)
Amina McConvell (2019, 2020, 2021)
Gary Lang (2019)
Tamara Howie (2019)
Ciella Williams (2019)
Alicia Scobie (2019)
Cj Fraser Bell (2019, 2020)
Celebrating the multiplicity of our city.
Diverse intersectional practices that span multiple artforms.
The space between artistic expression and multicultural celebrations.
Images - Left to right and top to bottom: Grevillea by Matthew Van Roden. Image of Haneen Martin. Beautiful Noise by Jess Devereux. Image of Jess Devereux. Work by Cj Fraser-Bell. Work by Shaun Lee. A Combinatorial Explosion by Amina McConvell. Kelly Beneforti in Landed by Tracks Dance Company. Image of James Mangohig. Kelly Benforti and Cj Fraser-Bell in Queer Territory. Work by Cj Fraser-Bell. Jenelle Saunders and Jess Devereux in Global Positioning by Tracks Dance Company. Tarzan Mcdonald at Octopus Story Studio by StoryProjects. Image of Gary Lang. A Selection from the series '36' at SHEILAS group exhibition by Alicia Scobie. Rock Star by Lee Harrop. Ciella Williams in You Dance Funny by Tracks Dance Company. Image of Matthew Van Roden. Image of Tamara Howie. Work by Tarzan McDonald as apart of ‘Asia in Darwin’ at Survive Garage in Jogjakarta.
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