The Pleiades Project
Enriching and empowering the work of Australian and Indonesian female and femme artists is central to The Pleiades Project. This is actualised by creating opportunities for connections through international residencies and performance, with support from Creative Australia’s International Engagement Fund.
Central to this project is Kasekten: a dance theatre, live music and performance art work collaboration between Javanese-Australian dancer and choreographer Juliet Widyasari Burnett, Javanese metal vocalist Karina Utomo and Australian visual artist Michaela Gleave. The work has been in research and development since 2021, with support from Creative Australia and the Regional Arts Development Fund.
The vision at the heart of Kasekten is a spirit of crossing bridges between Indonesian and Australian cultures and inverting patriarchal histories; we extend that vision to cultivate similar opportunities for other female and femme artists who are also questioning similar themes in their work.
In the cross-cultural, feminist spirit of The Pleiades Project, Australian female/femme artists will be afforded the opportunity to travel to Indonesia to engage with local artists through a residency, with the intention of developing new work. Likewise, Indonesian female/femme artists will travel to Australia to engage with local artists there.
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