Luke George + Daniel Kok

Luke George

Luke George is a multidisciplinary artist creating work across performance and installation. Born in lutruwita/Tasmania and based on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne, Luke works with rope, tension, suspension, and release. His practice examines how people interact with one another and relate to their environment.

Luke is interested in “safe spaces” that allow for both care and risk. His work is informed by queer politics and communal spaces, where people are neither singular nor isolated. Bodies of difference can intersect, practice mutual listening, and take responsibility for themselves and one another. Luke presents work across Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America, including at the Venice Biennale, National Galleries of Victoria and Singapore, and Arts Centre Melbourne. He was a 2019 Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship recipient, appointed inaugural Artistic Associate of Temperance Hall in 2020, bequeathed a Chloe Monroe Fellowship in 2022, and is a studio artist at Collingwood Yards.

Daniel Kok

Daniel Kok studied Fine Art & Critical Theory (Goldsmiths College, London), Solo/Dance/Authorship (HZT, Berlin), and Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies (APASS, Brussels). In 2008, he received the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council (Singapore). His artistic work deals with the politics of spectatorship and audienceship and has been presented across Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America; notably in the Venice Biennale, Maxim Gorki (Berlin), Rising (Melbourne), and Festival/Tokyo. Still Lives: Melbourne won Outstanding Contemporary and Experimental Performance and Design/Technical Achievement at the Green Room Awards 2023. As artistic director of Dance Nucleus (Singapore), he develops capacities for artists and trans-local partnerships in the Asia-Pacific. He curates da:ns LAB and the VECTOR exhibition annually in collaboration with the Esplanade (Singapore). He is based between Singapore and Berlin.