Artist Interview with Tina Stefanou for ‘You Can’t See Speed’

Watch our interview with artist Tina Stefanou discussing her practice and new commission as part of her major solo exhibition at ACCA You Can’t See Speed showing until Monday 9 June.

Tina Stefanou: You Can’t See Speed attends to the interconnected and multisensory experience of film beyond vision. The exhibition continues Stefanou’s interest in the voice as medium, as well as expands on her methodology of deep, long-term, co-creative collaboration and socially engaged practice. The exhibition centres a collaborative new film commission with blind motorcycle mechanic and rider Matthew Cassar.

Curator: Elyse Goldfinch

ABOUT TINA STEFANOU: Tina Stefanou is a Greek-Australian visual artist, performer, researcher, and filmmaker living on unceded Wurundjeri country in Wattle Glen, Victoria. With a background as a vocalist, she works undisciplined, with and across a diverse range of mediums, practices, approaches and labours: an embodied practice that she calls voice in the expanded field. Informed by diasporic and working-class experiences, Stefanou engages in sound, filmography, and research as social practice, exploring with and beyond all-too-human and more-than-human vocalities. She works with multiple communities over long periods of time and locations through para-ethnographic* field work, vocal workshops, performance making, and filmic traces. 

*para-ethnographic – emphasises a collaborative approach to research and artmaking, which recognises the value and knowledge systems of ‘so-called experts’ and non-experts. It values practical and/or lived experience that sits outside of the traditional/formally trained academy.