Art, Writing & Research
This project was first presented and exhibited at the Birds and Language conference/exhibition, hosted online by the University of Sydney,…
Human beings are magical. Bios and Logos. Words made flesh, muscle and bone animated by hope and desire, belief materialized…
Working with aesthetics of excess and multiplicity presented online, Chelsea Coon and Jessica Laraine Williams conceived of digital performance glitch.mirror (2020) in attempts to grasp the separated unknowns of the moment, despite which there persists the human desire to connect and make meaning.
In preparation for an upcoming group exhibition, On Kindness and Care (2020), I dipped into the practice archives for a…
Emanating from the Null cartography (2018-ongoing) series of performative identity projects, Hair Actor (2020) is a distributed work in collaboration…
In 2020, I wrote and delivered a specialised module on the critical posthumanities for my students at the Victorian College…
After visiting a notable residence in Kandy, Sri Lanka, I’m writing a piece about its characters (and taking a closer…
The sumptuousness of the opera performers’ paint and fanwork stuck with me, particularly the masterful gradient wash of pink around…
A transcript of my presentation for Sci Gallery Melbourne, Friday 17 August 2018, as part of National Science Week. It…
Transcript of panel presentation for Melbourne Art Book Fair 2018, Art+ Australia Journal Issue Two: The Plague. “… I’m Jess. I operate…
Jessica Laraine Williams 