Bundanon

Kiera Brew Kurec’s practice is concerned with performance as a means for transformation through the agencies of time, endurance, environmental conditions and cultural practices. Her work includes live performance, performance for video, photography and sculpture.

In 2015 she graduated with a Masters of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts with first class honours. Her practice led research which explored Performance, Ritual and Transformation, located the history of contemporary performance practice in ancient ritual.

Brew Kurec’s practice is also concerned with the ethical, historical and current modes of the presentation and archiving of performance art. In 2011-2012 she interned at Franklin Furnace New York, a leading institution in archiving performance. In 2019-2020 she returned to New York undertaking research into performance archiving at MoMA, NYU Special Collections, Franklin Furnace and the Asian Art Archive in America.

Brew Kurec has exhibited extensively through Australia and overseas and is the recipient of multiple grants and awards.

Brew Kurec is the co-creator of the arts podcast Pro Prac.

In Residence at Bundanon

While undertaking a residency at Bundanon Kiera Brew Kurec will research and develop a new performance that is archived in real-time by its audience.

The performance will explore and test new methodologies to present and archive performance practice other than using the ‘traditional’ means of photographic and video documentation, instead utilising methods found within the preservation and communication of ritual and ceremony. The performance will be developed to have self-directive and intuitive instructions, which will allow audience members to become custodians and transmitters of the performance in to the future.