Awkward Conversations offers one-on-one conversations in experimental formats, tackling anxieties, habits and hard-to-talk-about subjects like mental health. Conversationalists include:
- Jonathan Dunk - a writer/researcher with experience of Type II Bipolar and O.C.D.
- Bhenji Ra - an artist and dancer who uses body and voice to negotiate her public visibility as a trans woman of colour, living in the intersections of body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria.
- Debra Keenahan - an artist confronting taboos of sexuality and disability in relation to her own lived experience with achondroplasia (dwarfism).
- Daniel Regan – London-based artist who uses photography to survive, and to ask questions about self-harm.
- Wart - a multidisciplinary artist and self-described “kook” whose life experience in the realm of the so-called schizo-affective has given her entertaining insights into psychiatry and community mental health.
- Eugenie Lee - an artist living with pain and using to technology to communicate this.
- Wil Centurian - a performer whose own mental health experiences inform the counselling and life-coaching he now provides to actors, singers and dancers.
- Faisal Sayani – a filmmaker and former journalist in Pakistan whose work is informed by his experience of depression.
- Amala Groom - a Wiradjuri artist who uses First Nations knowledge(s) and perspectives to address the experience of anxiety.
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