Constellations
Blacktown Arts, 7 November – 16 December 2023
Artists/Collectives: The Adorned Collective, Arab Theatre Studio, Dance Makers Collective, The Finishing School, Opnsrc.co, Pari and We Are Studios.
Curator: Tian Zhang
Assistant Curator: A’isyiyah Prahastono

Constellations was a celebration of collective and collaborative art practices on Dharug Country. For the first time, Constellations brought together arts collectives that have been actively making and creating in Sydney’s west. With practices spanning dance, performance, literature, digital and visual arts, Constellations explored what it means to work collectively from and for western Sydney.

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Read the feature by Leo Chau in Arts Hub.

Constellations, 2023, installation view, left to right: Dance Makers Collective, Big Dance – 10 years of DMC, 2023; Amy Claire Mills, Isolation isn’t comfortable, 2022, part of Pari, Asterism; Finishing School, Passages, 2023. Image by SilverSalt.

Constellations, 2023, installation view, left to right: Grazia Napoletano, Un Grande Lavoro del Mondo, 2023, part of We Are Studios; Arab Theatre Studio (ATS), On Country with Aunty, 2023. Image by SilverSalt.

The Adorned Collective, Collective Connections, 2023 (left); Incognito, 2020 (right). Image by SilverSalt.

Pari, Asterism, 2023, left to right: Rainer Ciar, Marcel Davie and Friends, 2020 – 2023; Bonnie Huang, Paint Me like napoleon bonaparte, 2023; Emily Greenwood, earth/water, 2021. Image by SilverSalt.

Rainer Ciar, Marcel Davie and Friends, 2020 – 2023, part of Pari, Asterism, 2023; Image by SilverSalt.

Constellations, 2023, installation view, left to right: Arab Theatre Studio (ATS), On Country with Aunty, 2023; Amy Claire Mills, Isolation isn’t comfortable, 2022, part of Pari, Asterism; Dance Makers Collective, Big Dance – 10 years of DMC, 2023. Image by SilverSalt.

Dylan Mangunay, Ricky Tana, Nicole Oliveria and Ian ‘Esky’ Escandor, Collective Effort, 2023, part of Open Source Collective (opnsrc.co), Image by SilverSalt.

Jannawi Dance Clan performing at Constellations opening night. Image by Simrat Kaur.

All images courtesy of Blacktown Arts.