Join artist Lilah Benetti on Friday 15 May 1-3:30pm workshop that explores art-making as a relational process shaped by obsessions, perception, and lived experiences.
This workshop explores art-making as a relational process shaped by obsessions, perception, and lived experiences.
WHEN: Friday 15 May 1-3:30pm
WHERE: Arts Lab, Level 1, Arts and Cultural Building, Monash Road, Building 159 (MAP), next to the George Paton Gallery.
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You are invited to bring an object you feel drawn to, are obsessed with, or that carries personal meaning. It can be everyday, abstract, or something in between. A physical object is preferred, but something held on your phone is also welcome. You are also welcome to hold an early-stage idea for a project in mind as we move through the session. Through a series of activities and conversation, we trace the images, ideas, and patterns you return to, using these as a starting point for making. Working with these objects, the session moves from personal meaning-making into a shared, collective process.
Held as an open, conversational space, the workshop allows time to sit with ideas, speak, and listen. It offers a way of making guided by curiosity and shaped through relation.
Lilah Benetti (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist working across contemporary art and cinema, with moving image as their primary material. Engaging cinema as a medium shaped by ritual, attention, and transmission, their practice moves between cinematic film and spatial installation, treating narrative filmmaking and experimental moving image as parallel sites within the same inquiry. Grounded in research as relation, Benetti approaches still and moving image as fluid and porous, shaped through long-term collaboration, dialogue, and attentiveness to place. Working with sound, performance, and research-based collaboration, their practice explores how images hold duration, atmosphere, and affect, and how meaning is carried through presence and absence rather than resolution. Photography functions within their practice as documentation and as a thinking tool, contributing to a working archive through which light, gesture, and presence are tested and held across multiple forms.