COLLECTIVE ARTIVISM AND THE CREATIVE PRACTICE OF

ANNEMAREE DALZIEL

Image from a series of public “actions” by Sybil Disobedients, wearing Annemaree Dalziel’s costumes, 2021

Annemaree Dalziel’s practice centres on performance, bringing her work with fabric, costume and set design into a range of venues and communities to talk about things that are important to them. Dalziel is interested in shifting connections to place, the changes in Australian ecologies under colonisation and the social consequences of displacement of people.

She explores how smell, touch and sound affect memory, imagination and sense of place. Her collaborative process can be a voyage of discovery as people unearth stories and concerns lurking below the surface of life, uncovering and articulating unrecorded archives of everyday experience.