PHOTO LIVE: Rafaela Pandolfini

Speakers

• Rafaela Pandolfini (AU)

  Rafaela Pandolfini is a photographer and artist, also working in the curatorial. Rafaela explores feminine identity in the broadest sense as well as the value of labour. She holds an MFA from UNSW. From 2009 onwards Rafaela spent time photographing in clubs/dancefloors across Sydney, she continues to photograph for many prominent artists and institutions. In 2015 Rafaela created an epic 8 hour video called 02-02 A dance for every day of my pregnancy, exhibited in Realising Mother at Kudos Gallery and Campbelltown Arts Centre. 02-02 explores themes of the performative body, maintenance and care work. Rafaela’s curatorial work includes Inside, co-curated with Stella Rosa McDonald, Session Vessels and An Unintended Consequence (of labour) organised with Ainlise Templeton and Cosmopolitan organised with Jana Hawkins-Andersen.

• Amelia Wallin

  Amelia Wallin is an Australian curator, writer and the Director of West Space.  Her work centres on commissioning and facilitating cross-disciplinary artistic exploration, as well as interrogating alternative models for institution building. Her recent research and writing examines reproductive labour in the space of the contemporary art institution, in relation to care, feminisms, and practices of instituting. Amelia has held curatorial and administrative positions at Performa in New York and the Biennale of Sydney, Performance Space, Campbelltown Arts Centre and Performing Lines in Sydney. She has played an active role in arts development in Sydney through directorial and curatorial positions at Firstdraft, Tiny Stadiums Festival, and as co-founder of the residency and exhibition program Sydney Guild. Amelia holds a Bachelor of Art Theory and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of New South Wales, and a Master of Curatorial Studies from Bard College, New York.