About

For four days, Superposition opens a temporary space inside the real world where our communities and artists physically inhabit different ways of being: with each other, with time, with place, with pleasure, with loss.

A hopeful invitation to create the conditions where we can all rehearse better futures.

Co-Directors

Co-directors

Thom Smyth

A Sydney-based creative producer and cultural programmer working across contemporary performance, queer culture and community-embedded practice. He is the founder of Unfunded Empathy and the co-creator of Queer PowerPoint, which has been presented across the region including RISING, Taipei Pride, Sydney Festival, Festival of Live Art Auckland and Darwin Festival. As Producer at Performing Lines, he produces work with Bundjulung/Ngapuhi choreographer Amrita Hepi , queer icon Betty Grumble and dj & composer Paul Mac.

His producing work is characterised by a commitment to risk-taking, artist care and building genuine community around cultural events. He brings particular expertise in emerging artist development, event production and the kind of sustained relational work that makes ambitious projects viable.

Sam Watson-Wood

A multidisciplinary curator and cultural programmer with over two decades of experience. She is the founder and director of Friends with Strangers, a socially-engaged cultural organisation working at the intersection of artistic excellence and social impact. She curates and produces multidisciplinary art experiences with a focus on building platforms where communities can gather and imagine more equitable futures.

Prior to Friends with Strangers she served as Executive Producer and Artistic Adviser at Performance Space, Festival Director of Art Month, and Director of Programs and Partnerships for Sydney Contemporary. She has worked extensively with artists and organisations across the Asia-Pacific region, with a sustained interest in collaborative practice, political and ecological urgency, and art that reaches beyond institutional audiences.

Team

Janey Li

Designer and technologist. One half of EX-GF studio.

Giana Festa

Freelance digital producer based in sydney, australia. The other half of EX-GF studio.

Sehej Kaur

Media artist and arts worker working on Dharug country.

Advisory Board

Uncle David King
Uncle David King

Gundungurra Man and GAHAI member. Gully Traditional Owner.

Aunty Leanne Tobin
Aunty Leanne Tobin

Dharug woman, artist and cultural educator.

Amrita Hepi

Bundjulung and Ngapuhi choreographer and artist working across performance, video and installation.

Jenny Kee AO

Iconic Australian fashion designer and artist, Blackheath resident for nearly fifty years.

Nithya Nagarajan

Interdisciplinary artist, curator and writer of Tamil ancestry. Artistic associate, Sydney Festival.

Vanessa Duscio

Managing Partner, REA Arts 
and Culture. Over 20 years working with Carriageworks, Sydney Opera House and the 
Australian Ballet.

Joe Muller

Managing Director, MusicNSW. Board Member, Green Music Australia, NSW Sound NSW Advisory Board, 24-Hour Economy Advisory Council.

Sponsors