James Hazel
23 July - 14 August 2026
Opening Celebration: Thursday 23 July, 5-7pm
The body holds the working-class score. A broadcast from nowhere that goes somewhere. Keeping up appearances amidst bourgeois coldness™. A para-archive of classed artefacts and Neighbours from Hell. Extended transcriptions from “the other side” of the road. Care-in-precarity. Calls on weight & call on hold. Non-property as non-self. Horizons that never arrive. Social security & life under the negative sign. A nervous garden held together by bread ties. Dad smells like White Ox after work. Lingering, loitering, & making do. Dream, dream, dream.
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James Hazel is an artist, writer, and social researcher. Hazel’s socio-sonic practice draws on embodied working-class utterances, vocalities, and imaginaries to explore listening, living, and “making do” under neoliberal precarity. Revelling in (in)sincerity, humour, contradiction, and failure, Hazel works through a ‘houso-poetics’ of lo-fi scores, bricolage, and collaborative interventions across sound, performance, writing, radio, music, pedagogy, and community practice.
Hazel’s work has been exhibited, presented, and/or performed at: Cashmere Radio (Berlin); Performance Space / Carriageworks; ABC Radio National; Bundanon Trust; Liquid Architecture; Critical Path; Seventh Gallery; PACT Centre for Emerging Artists; The West Australian Ballet; Incinerator Gallery; and Gaudeamus / Screendive Festival (Utrecht).
In 2024, James was an artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris) and is currently working on a new ‘poor opera’ with support from Creative Australia.
Image Credit: A Broadcast from Somewhere That Goes Nowhere, 2025 Text score, microphone, speaker, saxophone (Jack Stoneham). Photography by Anna Kucera Performed as part of MERRY LANDS, the first part of the TRIBUNALS: HOME project Produced by The Werewolf and Kaz Therese