Susie Anderson & Jannah Quill
Susie Anderson writes to uncover what landscapes remember. Informed by her Wergaia and Wemba Wemba heritage, her work navigates identity, time, and the quiet repair of cultural connection. She has worked in digital production for museums and galleries in both Sydney and Melbourne, and her practice often manifests as ekphrasis–poems in response to artwork, in particular First Nations art and artists, or as interventions into long-held colonial narratives of place. Jannah’s creative practice is interested in the behaviour of electricity in natural and built systems. Her music compositions are shaped at the intersection of computer music and modular synthesis; a conversation between physical signals and digital emulation or expansion. She creates audio visual systems to forefront the material synergy between sound and light. This technical practice is underpinned by deep listening and intuitive response between herself and the machine (or system), with a consideration of how this relates to feminine technological histories.
While the materiality of Susie and Jannah’s practices appears distinct, the overlap in their creative approach is that they both begin with deep listening: to place, to sound, to Country and Community, and to their own internal responses of emotion and memory, which guide their creative outcomes.
