CREATIVE AUSTRALIA APPLCATION 2026

Audax M. Gawler

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1. EXAMPLE OF WORLDED, INTERACTIVE FUTURES INSTALLATION - CARRYKIN (2022) was presented at blindisde in 2022 as in interspecies surrogacy clinic from a future where humans could volunteer to use emergent bio-tech to temporarily gestate marine species within their bodies as a way to contribute to ocean restoration.

Installation details included speculative artefacts/worlded objects included for audience interaction including functional websites, pharmacutical packets and information brochures.

WINNER INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FUTURISTS ‘MOST SIGNIFIGANT FUTURE’ AWARD

2. EXAMPLE OF LARGE SCALE MEDIA WORK Produced through support from frame doc lab and map mima lake macquarie art residency, PASSING CLOUD (2025) was a 360 video work exploring ocean futures and the Giant Cuttlefish as an oracle to be consulted on strategies for collective survival and adaptation.

3. EXAMPLE OF WORLDED, PARTICIPATORY INSTALLATION WITH AUDIO Commissioned by Descanso Gardens (LA) and the Interspecies Library (NYC), TREE TONGUE (2026) presented a future lab for sensing, translating and speaking with plant-based languages. Set in a future where the intelligence and sentience of plants has been widely embraced, and transformed human life, Tree Tongue invited audiences to learn about sensing speech from within the brazilian jagube vine, and to add to the understanding of the tree language by writing with the glyphs that compose of the dialect. Installation details included field recordings from the amazon mixed with reflections by Indigenous Amazonian Paje (healer) Aya Kukame, alongside carved jagube stamps, and speculative linguistic artefacts.

8,000 participants used the plant language glyph stamps to fill cards contribute to the growing Tree Tongue translation guide and vocabulary.

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4. EXAMPLE OF WORLDED PARTICIPATORY INSTALLATION WITH PERFORMANCE/COSTUMING/SCRIPT/AUDIO Commissioned by Sexxbbox for the Sao Paulo Trans Pride Program, and created in collaboration with a local butterfly sanctuary, MUTO: A TEMPLE FOR TRANSPLANETARY REGENERATION (2025) invited its audience into a sacred space with the intention to rest, regenerate and reworld. Led by the temple guardians, audiences were cleansed, annointed and guided into the future using audio works, before travelling into the sacred rest space to undergo an ‘unworlding’ and ‘reworlding’ experience and meditation. Each experience followed the metamorphic processes of the monarch butterfly, and after participants had left their future visions on a shared altar they left with seeds for cosmo plants, the only food consumed by monarch caterpillars, to plant their hopes for the future across present day Sao Paulo.

A excerpt of a short documentary about Muto can be found in video support below.

5. EXAMPLE OF INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION WITH MEDIA WORK AND SPECULATIVE DESIGN Presented at MILK Gallery with the support of the Creative Victoria Creators Fund and the University Of Melbourne Center For Visual Arts, AUTOCTHONIA (2022) presents the speculative future of soil care, through the ‘care for commons’ initiative. Making vital earth resources available to off-planet terrans, it uses speculative aretfacts such as ‘soil pill supplements’, breathing devices alongside spatial sound work, inetractive website links, and a video from a space ‘soil-spa’.

Autocthonia has since shown as a part of the exhibition program for the International Digital Media And Arts Association (2023/24) and will be presented at the Contemporary Art Gallery Of Tasmania in October 2026 as a part of ‘Summoning the Portal’.

1. SHORT VIDEO WORK FROM AUTOCTHONIA 3:00 Single Channel

2. EXAMPLE OF COSTUMING/PERFORMANCE DIRECTION AND SCRIPTING - Commissioned by the center for projection art as a part of the ‘Frame Biennale Of Dance’ in TOXX (2023) was shot in perth/borloo and features sculptural costumes and a poetic script accompanied by a score composed by stephanie speirs. It was shown at CPA and at Bunjil Place the same year, and then by the City Of Hobart as a part of EPOCH:LOOP in 2024. Toxx is 15:00 single channel, each excerpt is 1:00.

3. DEMONSTRATING INSTALLATION SCALE/PERFORMANCE/SCRIPTING/ATMOSPHERIC WOLRD-BUILDING - An 5:00 excerpt of a longer documentary capturing some of the team and process behind the creation of MUTO in 2025, it reveals the installation space, details, audio excerpts and performers acting as temple Guardians.