2025 Supermassive Artists

SUPERMASSIVE is APHIDS’ program to engage and support the development of the experimental arts community in Australia and beyond. As one of Australia’s leading experimental and artist-led companies, APHIDS looks to forge and sustain relationships with early career and more senior artists, building partnerships and pathways for future opportunities. SUPERMASSIVE demonstrates our commitment to broadening the knowledge and sustainability of arts practices that share and expand APHIDS’ artistic methodologies and approach.

Georgia Banks makes performance art even when you think she doesn’t. Her most interesting work won’t happen until after she’s dead – she hopes it’s good but will never know. Banks has been banned from Tinder, sued by the estate of Hannah Wilke, and awarded Miss Social Impact in a national beauty pageant. She would like to go viral, break a Guinness World Record, and be in an actual episode of Black Mirror instead of making her own. Georgia’s never had a filling nor broken a bone (although she has been crucified) and once was convinced she’d accidentally sliced away a part of her labia during a performance (she hadn’t).

Alia Ardon is a Moroccan-French-Australian filmmaker and artist with a deep interest in history, particularly ecological imperialism and the plurality of historical narratives. Most recently, she was a research resident at the Bouanani Archives in Rabat, where she led the beginning of her research on ecological imperialism through the case study of the history of eucalyptus. Her work has shown been shown in e-flux (New York City), MONAFOMA (Launceston), documenta-fifteen (Kassel), Think Tanger (Tanger), ZargaLab Ramadan Screenings (Marrakech), the Prague Quadrennial (Prague), and the State Library of NSW, Verge Gallery, Firstdraft, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, SWANA Film Festival on Gadi Country. Among her notable works are her collaboration as a director on the film ‘Border Farce’ (2023) by Safdar Ahmed commissioned by documenta-fifteen. Her film in development ‘Kalitus’ (working title) which investigates the journey of eucalyptus to Morocco from so-called Australia was awarded first prize at the USU Creative Awards 2024.