Current Residents
Jen Rae
Jen Rae is an award winning artist-researcher of Canadian Métis* descent living and creating on Djaara country in Central Victoria. Her research-creation expertise is in the discursive field of contemporary environmental art and arts-based environmental communication. It is centered around cultural responses to climate change/emergency (a.k.a. ‘everything change’), specifically the role of artists. Her work is engaged in discourses around food justice, disaster resilience and speculative futures predominantly articulated through transdisciplinary collaborative methodologies and community alliances. She is a co-founder of the Centre for Reworlding, a collective of diverse Indigenous, people of colour, settler and LGBTIQA+ scientists, artists, thinkers and doers collaborating across art, the climate emergency, speculative futures and disaster resilience.
While in residence, Jen Rae was in creative development for the Centre for Reworlding's Creative Resilience Lab workshops in August 2022. As part of the Australian Disaster Resilience Conference, the first Creative Resilience Lab will be held on 23 August at Clarendon Creative in partnership with the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience supported by Clarendon Creative, Australia Council for the Arts and RMIT University. The second Creative Resilience Lab will be held on 26 August 2022 at the Museum of Discovery. Other Reworlders joining the CRL activities include Professor Lauren Rickards, Maree Grenfell, Claire G. Coleman, Naomi Velaphi and Angharad Wynne-Jones. Others TBC.
