Experimenta Social 13: Elizabeth Willing on Participation, Sense and Taste

EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #13: 11 October 2017 at ACMI X Open your senses to art made for the body, smell and perception. Elizabeth Willing and Cat Jones are contemporary Australian artists working at the mouth of meaning, playing diverse stimuli like experimental food, scent, language, ecology and psychology. Presented as part of Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art. www.experimenta.org/makesense * * * * Elizabeth Willing is an Australian visual artist. In 2009 she completed her honours in Fine Arts (Visual Arts) and is currently undertaking a Masters of Fine Art (research) at Queensland University of Technology. In 2014 Elizabeth was the recipient of the Australia Council Kunstlerhaus Bethanien one-year residency. Furthermore Elizabeth has undertaken a two month residency at Helsinki International Art Program HIAP and a one year residency at Metro Arts Brisbane. Solo exhibitions and dining performances have been held in Australia and overseas at Tolarno Galleries Melbourne, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, and Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane. Awards and grants include Australia Council Project funding (2016), the Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship (2013), Australia Council Artstart grant (2012), a JUMP mentoring Scholarship (2010), and the Melville Haysom Scholarship through QAGOMA (2010). www.elizabethwilling.com * * * * About Experimenta Social Join us each month for Experimenta Social - a series of talks, discussions and demos designed to provide proximity to some of Australia’s most adventurous contemporary artists, researchers and creative technologists. This artist-led series is curated by Emile Zile in collaboration with Experimenta Media Arts and explores practices at the nexus of art and technology, science, culture and design.