Artists

Jenn Ma and Baylee Griffin are interdisciplinary artists whose collaborative practice brings together contemporary dance, ceramics and live performance.

Jenn Ma is a Taiwanese-Australian dancer, choreographer and producer based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice moves across performance, installation and interdisciplinary collaboration, with a focus on the body’s capacity to hold memory, multiplicity and transformation.

Baylee Griffin is an artist based in Illawarra/Wollongong working primarily with ceramics, sculpture and performance. Their practice explores material ecologies, fragile systems and embodied relationships to body, land and matter.

Together they create live works where the act of making becomes performance. Their collaboration investigates clay as collaborator, positioning material and body in an ongoing exchange of pressure, care and transformation.
 

In Residence at Bundanon

The duo will use their residency at Bundanon to research and develop their new interdisciplinary performance that experiments with the physical relationship between material and movement, building off of their past work, Coiling. The residency will allow the artists to refine the work’s choreographic and material language, investigate the limits of clay under pressure, and develop the evolving dialogue between body and matter. Jenn and Baylee are passionate collaborators that live in separate states, so opportunities to come together in residency settings are especially vital. This period of focused research will form a key stage in shaping the next iteration of their collaborative performance.