HOTA ArtKeeper Program
A 5 month contract with HOTA to create work on residence across their cultural precinct.
ArtKeeper Success Announcement!
In October Michelle was announced as one of four recipients of HOTA’s ArtKeeper program.
Following the call out in August of 2021, out of 150 applications recieved from artists, Michelle Le Plastrier, Jay Jermyn, Daniele Constance and Daniel Cabrera (Dani Cabs) made it past the interview stage and were notified of their success.
They have been offered a fixed-term employment contract to work on their proposed art project at HOTA for three days per week until March 2022.
The artists have been encouraged to take risks, experiment, and create great art in conjunction with internationally acclaimed playwright and artistic director, Wesley Enoch AM, who has been engaged as Artist Provocateur for the roles.
You can read more about the program here:
HOTA ArtKeeper Announcement
Blank Magazine
Arts Hub
The Project:
The project Michelle proposed is to develop a body of work exploring evolution and adaptation in correlation with global warming and the imminent weather extremes. She’ll be hosting workshops and inviting audience for participatory activations to theoretically explore ways in which life forms may evolve or adapt. An investigation will be carried out to research flora’s and fauna’s response to the changing climate, fast forwarding adaptation and hypothesizing features and characteristics they would develop for survival. Will humans need gills and flippers? Will camels need to grow wings to fly?
Through community participation she will then collect an extensive range of collages and small clay models documenting these hypothetical evolutions and supply rationale for these newly imagined fantastical creatures. These creatures will then become the basis for larger sculptures for the body of work.