THE PROJECT.

A durational Live Art performance and drawing series.

A synchronous collaboration over three months.

An intimate experience of 'shared time’ between three people in different locations.

Connection and presence with others using technology - contemporary and ancient - while physically distanced.

An online video, photograph and visual art gallery, documenting process and outcomes.

Conceived during isolation in 2020.

The Response 2020 will connect with seven other regional artists in New South Wales, Australia. Participating artists will activate the process by emailing an encrypted query, with a title. The three will ‘be present’ with each other for a scheduled 15 minutes, as the performances are created and video recorded. Presented side by side, the videos will be displayed on this website’s gallery as they are created, along with the activation messages, artwork and photographs.

You are invited to join the audience below.

The Response.

Originating from Northern New South Wales in Australia, The Response is a video performance collaboration between performance artist Frauke Huhn and visual artist Jacqueline J Smith.

They were introduced five years ago because of a shared interest in the interdisciplinary crossovers of applied art, science and education. They started working together in collaboration with Melbourne-based Scale Free Network: art-science collaborative. Projects include Microscope Drawing Laboratory at Byron School of Art, funded by an Arts NSW CASP grant (Mullumbimby, NSW, 2017), Life in Water at ArtPlay (City of Melbourne, 2018) and Bubbleology at Street Science, World Science Festival (Brisbane, 2018).

As both artists share a strong interest and background in education and creative arts therapy (both are accredited teachers and Jacqueline has trained in Ikon Institute’s Transpersonal Art Therapy and Frauke in Systemic Constellation and NLP), in 2019 they started to explore through live art, incorporating performance art and process drawing, involving the audience in the art making process. They have presented their collaborations at Performance hART’s Performance Art Intensive (Byron Bay, 2019), Murwillumbah Arts Trail (MAT19) with The Conduits - Shamans (Murwillumbah, 2019) and Dark Science with The Conduits - Alchemy (Lismore, 2019).

Their artistic urgency is to connect and empower through collectively shared experiences that are significant, deep and transformative. They find it is important to engage art and the creative process to reclaim a connection to the mystical and intuitive. Frauke and Jacqueline practice performance as contemporary ritual and spiritual engagement, exploring art’s capacity to offer insight and healing to both individuals and the collective.

Jacqueline J Smith.

Jacqueline J Smith is a visual artist, creative facilitator and educator from Hong Kong and Brisbane. Deriving inspiration from calligraphy and energetic movement, Jacqueline considers the transformative and alchemical nature of drawing processes.

Frauke Huhn.

Frauke Huhn is an independent cross-disciplinary artist, social pedagogue and scientist who has trained and worked in Theatre, Education and Social Arts for more than 20 years across the globe.