Making friends
Across its iterations, it has unfolded as vast exploration of friendship—treated here as a curiously underrepresented relation, one suspended in the productive tension between the individual and the communal.
The project was first performed at Fatal Crush, while Becky Heaton plaited my hair. Subsequent versions have been staged at Kudos Live at Cement Fondu and for the Kudos Emerging Writer Award. Each time, the work returns to itself as an essay that bears repeating and revisiting—again and again.
The most recent iteration took place in November 2024 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in the form of a lecture and PowerPoint titled Arm’s Length, curated by Sydney Jarrett.
An archive of writings and readings informing this project.