APHIDS QUAD

The QUAD is a space for long artistic conversations, and deep reflection alongside each other over a multi year period. At a time when artists are encouraged to be output focused, in a context where their knowledge is extracted, in a world where their identities are traded as capital, the APHIDS QUAD is an intervention.

Embedded inside of the company, the artists are collaborators who actively work and consult on projects and company strategy.

Additionally, the QUAD’s year is punctuated with meetups that utilise an established ‘check in, check out’ methodology of critical conversations and care. Practice, well being, and professional development strategies are shared with each other and sent through an internal feedback loop.

Sammaneh Pourshafighi is a queer genderfluid Muslim who arrived in Australia as a refugee after the Iranian Revolution. Sammaneh is a performer, producer and multidisciplinary artist.

Amrita Hepi is an award-winning First Nations choreographer and dancer from Bundjalung (Aus) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. Her mission as an artist is to push the barriers of intersectionality and make work that garners multiple access points.

Julia Croft is a performance maker from Aotearoa. Her practice draws on a wide variety of critical theory and pop culture to create performance works that highly theatrical, visual and comedic. She is particularly interested ways to enliven, live with and through, matter and materiality through a feminist and Queer lens.

Nisha Madhan (India/Aotearoa) is an independent artistic director and producer. She is the Creative Producer at AsiaTOPA, Australia’s major triennial of Asia Pacific Performance. Her eclectic career includes creating, directing, and producing experimental live art, performing on stage and screen, and critical writing.