About
Willoh Weiland is ‘Head of Creative’ in her own collaborative multi-verse—with a practice spanning art, writing, curation and creative direction.
Current and previous lives include roles as the Creative Director Special Events at the Museum of Old and New Art working on events of scale with the killer curatorial team; being an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne; working on a tech/ jewellery racket with Melbourne brand Black Finch; writing a TV series with some serious babes funded by Screen Australia; being the Artistic Director/ CEO of the artist-led experimental arts organisation Aphids, leading a program of nationally and internationally acclaimed work; directing the night-time programming for the Mona Foma Festival with my crime partner James Brennan; being commissioned by the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Museum of Contemporary Art; being a recipient of the Australia Council Experimental Arts Fellowship and winner of the International Prize for Live Art from the Anti-Festival and the Saastamoinen Foundation Finland.
"Her body of work to date appears to know no limits—it inhabits the city, the suburb, the natural world, even outer space, no less, with the same surefootedness, elegance, intelligence and verve. Her work has real scale, these are large, complex projects involving and implicating many people. There is an impressive dramaturgy at work, an intuitive sense of visual composition, of orchestration, of direction with a vision that can deftly move, shift, adapt to new perspectives, new territories, new ways of being. This is thoroughly exciting work. Her projects are deeply serious and deeply humorous in equal measure. They are also spectacular, epic and impossible to ignore."
Winner’s Jury Statement, International Prize for Live Art, Anti Festival and Saastoimen Foundation, Finland.