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James Hazel

Discipline:

Artist, Composer, Writer, Independent Researcher

Location:

Sydney, Australia

ABOUT:

[i] am an artist/composer/researcher (and aspiring neo-luddite) particularly interested in *scoring* resistant text and sonic practices (and making) that emerge within conditions of precarity. In this arena [my] practice currently involves: scores, installation, performance texts, video and assemblage, scores, installation, performance texts, video and assemblage, while working with materiality such as: sound, noise, language, space, and found-objects/subjects [ i] aspire to an ethics of collaboration based on mutual-aid. sound, noise, language, space, and found-objects/subjects

[i] aspire to an ethics of collaboration based on mutual-aid. [my] practice is also concerned with (non-essentialised) working/under-class modalities of being, soundings and expressions; emergent forms of late-capitalist intimacies; node-works and counterfeit-love-companies; [I am] suspicious of neo-liberal imaginaries and ontologies (particularly those reflected within my own desires for success and admiration) and hyper-art-obejct-professionalisms and maled-technocratisms; [i am] seeking long walks on the beach, thick post-internet altruisms, mysticisms and ritualisations - and resistant digital ensoundings and archives: like the ones [i] have have been involved in making:

adsrzine.com (w/ Elia Bosshard and Sonya Holowell); contscore.com; and precarioustexts.com

theoperacompany.com (w/ Joseph Franklin and Tina Stefanou)

WORKS:

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