Bundanon

Katrina Garvey and Lisa Kurtz are photo-video-installation artists, exploring the practice of collaboration between differently-abled bodies.

Katrina is profoundly prelingually d/Deaf. Katrina completed a Bachelor of Photography degree (majoring in Photojournalism and Documentary Practices) at the Queensland College of Art. Her practice explores deafness, sexuality, gender and language.

Katrina’s work is included in the 2019 and 2020 editions of Loud and Luminous, a celebration of Australian women and non-binary photographers, held in the National Library of Australia. Katrina was also a finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award 2023.

Lisa, also a graduate of the Queensland College of Art, is a hearing artist. Her work explores uncomfortableness within memory, place and time. Lisa was a founding member of VERGE Collective, and teaches Contemporary Photomedia at Central Queensland University.

Lisa has been a finalist in the Percival Photographic Portrait Prize, Clayton Utz Art Awards, Head On Photo Awards, Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, and the Milburn and Lethbridge Landscape Prizes.

In Residence at Bundanon

Katrina and Lisa are interested in the way deaf and hearing bodies can un/intentionally be gatekeepers, intermediaries or couriers between cultures, and how that can be explored by audiences in an exhibition space.

How can an audience help or hinder the flow of information and knowledge?

The residency provides the opportunity for Katrina and Lisa to create and test an environment for audiences without the pressure of a formal gallery setting, enabling them to take more risks.

Underlying the project is the hypothesis that collaboration is an environment rather than a tool and they are drawn to developing an immersive environment to test audience collaboration.