ITA
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Starting in late 2018, ITA is the cross-disciplinary collaborative team of author Jane Rawson (TAS); sound artist Fever Dream Archive (TAS); and visual artist, Saskia Haalebos (ACT).
Jane Rawson is the co-founder of reading promotion organisation, Read Tasmania. She has written three novels—A wrong turn at the Office of Unmade Lists, From the Wreck and A History of Dreams—and a novella, Formaldehyde. From the Wreck won the 2017 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin literary prize. She is the co-author of The handbook: surviving and living with climate change. Her short fiction and essays, which are mostly about the environment, are in Sleepers, Overland, Tincture, Seizure, Griffith Review, Meanjin, KYD and Review of Australian Fiction. Jane and Saskia have collaborated on a long-durational drawing performance titled FLOOD, as part of the 2018 CONTOUR 556 arts festival in the ACT, and screenprinted redactions of pages from From the Wreck to create micro-scripts exhibited in 2023 at ACT Hub - Canberra's home of independent theatre.
Read more: janerawson.com
Fever Dream Archive, the electro acoustic/experimental sound art project of Andy Maurer, has recorded two albums: Rippled Reflections/Satellites—an independently released collaboration with Saskia and Russian-based violinist, Kosta T—and Grey Days & Yellow Nights (unreleased). In 2022 Fever Dream Archive and Saskia collaborated on a digital portrait about memory and the places we perhaps run from, but which remain embedded and murky within us.
Hear more: feverdreamarchive.bandcamp.com
Saskia Haalebos is a visual artist with Autism working across printmaking, performance and projection, who also writes experimental music scores and makes low-fi books and zines. Her work has been exhibited in Australia, China, England, France + the USA; and has been talked about in IMPRINT magazine, on the Print Council of Australia's blog, and in a synaesthesia exhibit as part of Colour—see the world in a whole new light at Questacon National Science and Technology Centre (ACT). She has been the recipient of various residencies, prizes and awards, including from Canberra Contemporary Art Space (ACT), Megalo Print Studio and Gallery (ACT), Goulburn Regional Art Gallery (NSW) and The Unconformity (TAS).
See more: saskiahaalebos.com