Conversation with Kazahstan-born, Sydney-based interdisciplinary artist and writer Julia Bavyka. We talk about their latest project The Risk Taking, developed as part of the writers residency at Firstdraft. The project explores the politics and possibilities of dreams/dreaming, and considers dreams as "a form of knowledge production," when other forms of knowledge no longer provide the assurance. We also talk about issues of fatigue, precarity, and over-work; topics that often feature in Bavyka's work. As Bavyka says: "In order to dream you need to sleep." So what type of resistance and revolution needs to happen first, in order for us to dream - both individually and collectively.
Aired on Eastside Radio on 3 January 2022, as part of 'Arts Monday: Sympoiesis'.
For more info about Bavyka's Firstdraft project see: https://firstdraft.org.au/program/dreams-the-risk-taking
Their website: http://juliabavyka.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ju_bavyka/
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