Harriet Gillies is an award-winning performance artist, dramaturg and director. She makes interdisciplinary, digital, durational, participatory, immersive and hybrid contemporary performance. She has presented works across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North America and Taiwan. She has been supported by arts organisations and government agencies at regional, national and international levels, and received professional artistic mentorship from acclaimed international artists Lynsey Peisinger, Robert Wilson and Marina Abramović. Her creative practice explores the internet and the role it has played in the changing psychology and social structures of society. She explores these ideas through a deeply non-linear, queer and nihilistic frame. She is passionate about making work that allows audiences to sit inside paradoxes – experiences that are at once silly and emotionally profound.

Xanthe Dobbie is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation in Naarm, Melbourne. Working across on- and offline modes of making, their practice aims to capture the experience of contemporaneity as reflected through queer and feminist ideologies. Drawing on humour, pop, sex, history and iconography, they develop shrines to a post-truth era. They have exhibited extensively locally and internationally with recent works including live-streamed theatre, interactive media, AR, VR, collage, performance and installation. Significant exhibitions include Image, Interrupted at UTS Gallery (2024), Matrix Re-Loaded at RMIT First Site Gallery (2023), Cloud Copy at Lismore Regional Gallery (2023), The Long Now at ACMI (2022), and Don’t Be Evil at UQ Art Museum (2021). In 2023, Xanthe won the Incinerator Art Award for Social Change and was Guest Editor for Runway Journal Issue #46 Ghost. Xanthe is currently finishing a PhD focusing on digital and interactive art at RMIT University as part of the ARC Linkage Archiving Australian Media Art: Towards a Method and National Collection.

Thom Smyth is a Co-Creator & Producer working across queer and experimental performance, events and festivals. Through Unfunded Empathy, he supports Sydney's most exciting LGBTQIA+ artists, fostering bold ideas that bring communities together. In 2026, he and Sam Watson-Wood will launch Superposition, a new festival conceived for the Blue Mountains UNESCO World Heritage Area. His work spans institutions to underground parties, always centered on unashamedly political celebrations of possibility. As co-creator of Queer PowerPoint, he has grown the project into an internationally commissioning platform across Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan, supporting 100+ artists, plus regional touring and a residency model launching in 2025. With national company Performing Lines, Thom produces groundbreaking artists like Amrita Hepi, Betty Grumble and Paul Mac, including major international tours of Rinse to Festival d'Avignon and across Europe and Turkey.

Victoria Spence has made work in Live Art at the intersections of cultural, contemporary, community and creative arts practice as a performer, dramaturg, curator and producer. Since 2002. has been shaping culture and practices in how we live and die and create our funeral rites. She is the founder of Life Rites, Holistic Funeral Directors specialising in bespoke doula-led end of life, funeral and ongoing bereavement care in the greater Sydney area and NSW. She brings to her work at Life Rites a deep understanding of the value and importance of how dramaturgical and performance making strategies inform her ceremonial practices as the key factor in laying the best foundation for healthy grieving and in re invigorating our life, death and funeral rites. In 2010 as a recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts ‘Connections’ Residency she established the Living with our Dead NFP organisation resulting in the establishment of a communal grieving event, Picnic Among Friends. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, Hons, in Philosophy and Performance from the UNSW Hons, (1994) and a Post graduate diploma in Death, Dying and Palliative Care, USYD Dept of Social Work. She is a trained Bereavement Counsellor and a recognised Somatic Educator.