Melbourne -based Artist Ana Tiquia will spend six weeks in Esperance between 12 October to 24 November, then return for another six weeks from 6 March to 19 April 2023.

Ana Tiquia is a transdisciplinary artist, cultural producer, curator, and future strategist. Integrating participatory art, design and futures practice, Ana creates public interventions: works that invite audiences into dialogue with ‘the future’. Her practice is one of inclusion that aims to ‘future’ with other humans, creatures, and things – to generate diverse, plural, and transformative future imaginaries. Ana has a deep commitment to the role of arts practice in relation to future inquiry, imagining, and social-ecological change. Her projects explore energy and material futures, futures of work and labour and the power dynamics encoded in algorithmic systems.

Photo Ana Tiquia, WORKPLACE, 2019-2021, participatory performance, installation (detail). Photographer: Agniezka Chabros

Angela Rossen delivered the Living Reef Festival in Esperance during August 2022, bringing together the people of Esperance to celebrate the Great Southern Reef culminating in an exhibition of works produced by children and adults of Esperance.