The Authors

Jo Pollitt is an artist scholar and Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow with the Centre for People, Place & Planet and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University. Her research is grounded in a twenty-year practice of working with improvisation as methodology across multiple performed, choreographic, curatorial and publishing platforms. She was an inaugural Forrest Creative and Performance Fellow, is convenor of Dance Research Australasia and co-lead of #FEAS: Feminist Educators Against Sexism. Jo co-founded BIG Kids Magazine and The Ediths, and is the author of The dancer in your hands. Her current research ‘Staging Weather’ focuses on expanding meteorological weather knowledges to address the instability of climate change.

Lilly Blue is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher working with feminist curatorial practices, artist literacies and multigenerational participatory practice. For over 30 years she has developed practice-led pedagogies that harness non-didactic, open-ended, entangled methods. Currently Head of Learning and Creativity Research at the Art Gallery of Western Australia she conceives and collaborates on projects that amplify the experience of children and marginalised groups as critical and valuable in activating ethical futures. Lilly was instrumental in the development of The Creativity Framework at Sydney Opera House, is co-founder of contemporary arts publication BIG Kids Magazine and a current PhD candidate at Edith Cowan University.