Dr Sarah Rodigari

My practice-led reserach addresses the social and political potential of art. My projects are relational, collabrative and site-responsive, employing, durational live action, improvisation, and dialogical methodologies to produce text-based performance, installation, and film.

My trans-disciplinary, process-based artworks produce collective commentaries that work as exhibits of social discourse as well as capsule demonstrations of the self-formed in dialogue. Continually ‘off-script’, through strategies of humility, absurdity and contradiction, I engage a practice of ‘wrong reading’ that elaborates a gap between social gestures and their categorisation, the common sense that prevails, or the ‘script’ – and the potential for this script to be otherwise. In these artworks, ‘wrong’ becomes contested and contingent. 

I have worked with and within various contexts and institutions including: The Sydney Opera House, Helsinki International Artist Program, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, The National New Australian Art Biennial, Carraigeworks (Sydney), Performance Space (Sydney) Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Live Art Development Agency (London), 20th Biennale of Sydney, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Melbourne) The Poetry Project (NYC) and SOMA (Mexico City). Rodigari is member of the Melbourne based collective Field Theory who in 2021 were jointly awadred the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture as well as the civic choice award. 

PhD(UOW), BA(Hon)(UNSW)