Satelliser Conversations JN Harrington and coworkers + special guests

For this conversation Satelliser coworker Christine Bramwell invited King Ayenge and Amara Agili-Odion to talk with her about compassion, self-compassion, potential and failure across their educational experiences and their professional lives. As Christine points out in her introduction, there are places where the conversation gets “tricky”. Here are some resources that might be supportive.

In this episode Satelliser coworker elena rose light meets JJ Chan and June Lam. Their conversation dances through many ideas and experiences including: ambiguity and time, choreographies of law and protest, plurality and shift in identification across spaces, refusal, joy, and locating the role and positionality of the artist in relation to expectations, institutions and codes.

The spiral is the underlying imprint of the Satelliser project, with the sense that there is always a way to enter, to offer, to gather, to move away and return.

In this episode Janine Harrington holds a conversation with artists Nicole Zizzi (USA) and Charles Koroneho (NZ) about space and navigation as they relate to thinking and ways of knowing. Nicole’s research is grounded in her physics and architecture backgrounds and experience of neurodiversity. Charles’ work explores the collision between Maori cosmology, New Zealand society and global cultures through performance, workshop and collaboration.In our spiralling conversation we touch on architecture, cities, maps, being a visitor, language, land, observation, orientation, colonisation, neurodiversity, negotiation, wave-particle duality and more.

We join Ilse Ghekière with Christine Bramwell, Jay Yule, Eve Walker, Kalliay Kirlew and Maíre Morrison delving into how they each first understood feminism, gender and politics and its influence on their lives and work. This collection of women, all at varied places in their lives and throughout the world, lend a listening ear to each other and a space for empathy and understanding. 

This episode hosts a conversation between Amaara Raheem and Rosemary Lee, Satelliser co-workers in 2020.

Amaara is a Sri Lankan born Australian grown dance-artist currently engaged in co-making a residential hub for reparative and speculative practices. Rosemary is a choreographer, director and performer based in London whose work is characterised by an interest in creating a moving portraiture of individuals and communities in site-specific performance works. 

In this conversation they pick up on themes of crafting, making and movement across generations, countries and in choreographic practice; how different registers of meaning shift perspectives of value over time. As they speak they are each also busy making and mending, which is a kind of stand-in for the dancing in Satelliser. Whilst being in conversation over the year, many of us have occupied ourselves in similar ways as a way to ground our attention, whether through drawing, embroidery or basket-making.

Amaara and Rosie speak from opposite sides of the world, at opposite ends of the day, the beginning of autumn and the beginning of spring.