In the Works: Process, Play, Experiment 2026

Join us at PACT for our fourth and final In The Works showcase for 2026!

In The Works: Process, Play Experiment is an opportunity for our six PACT Lab: PPE 2026 artists to share their works in development after their intensive two-week residency.

Audiences are invited to join the artists for a post-show Q&A.

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Taking place over two weeks from 8-20 November, PPE is a unique opportunity for artists in the first 10 years of their careers to spend two weeks developing their practice and creating new work in a collaborative environment. As well as residency space and support from PACT, the lab will include masterclasses with members of PACT's Associate Artists and guests, and will conclude with a public "In the Works" showcase.

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Nasim Patel

Nasim is an artist examining how technology mediates culture in the Anthropocene through choreography, digital work, and writing. He has created work for the Sydney Opera House, the University of Melbourne, and Performance Space. In 2024, Nasim participated in the Taiwan and Australia Choreography and Technology Exchange Program, organised between Critical Path and the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab. The collaboration between Taiwanese and Australian artists led to the creation of ‘BODY-DATA-LOOP’ in Taiwan, and ‘I remember what the machine remembers what I remember’, which premiered in Liveworks festival 2025. Nasim recently completed an Honours thesis which examined racialised repressions in early colonial Australia. This year, Nasim premiered ‘Tell Distance’—a full-length choreographic work based on his Honours research—at TheLab@UNSW as part of Sydney Fringe, and released 'Echoes from my Time Loop', a sci-fi concept rap EP written by an alternate-universe version of himself trapped in a time loop.

Xin Hui Ong

Xin Hui Ong is a Boorloo/Perth-based dance artist, choreographer and emerging performance-maker working across contemporary movement, text, character and visual composition. Her practice investigates the body as a site where social roles, desire, memory and expectation are rehearsed, resisted and remade. Through improvisation, task-based scores and choreographic structures, Xin creates performances that sit between abstraction and intimacy, inviting audiences to consider how they look, interpret and project meaning onto others.

Her recent work, Pro Forma Persona, explored the tension between public identity and the repressed self through movement, image and shifting performer relationships. Xin has undertaken creative development through independent practice and workshops with artists including Raghav Handa and Johannes Wieland. At PACT’s PPE Lab, she will develop Clandestine, a dance-theatre work exploring private ritual, spectatorship and the uneasy space between witnessing and voyeurism.

Lulu Barkell

Lulu is a multi-disciplinary Greek Australian artist working and living in Bulanaming, on Gadigal Country. Their work reflects their experiences as a disabled and ethnically diverse person, finding their creative voice in prose poetry, producing/directing, script writing, performance art, set design and photography. Lulu finds a catharsis in sharing their personal anecdotes and stories to build connections within niche and underrepresented communities. Lulu is excited by Eora exiting out of traditional art practices and moving into a new renaissance of experimentation.

Andrea Lim

Andrea Lim is an interdisciplinary artist and violinist working across experimental sound, performance and facilitation. She lives and works on Bidjigal land and was born and raised in Singapore. Her practice complicates the enactment and construction of morality. She is currently examining this subject matter through folkloric female spectres and their relationships to object and place.

Mitchell Christie

Mitchell Christie is an independent artist living and working on unceded land of the Gadigal and Dharug people - Sydney, Australia. He works across the dance sector in performance, choreography and education. Mitchell studied and spent the beginnings of his early career in New York. He holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, and has danced for numerous choreographers and companies. During this time he established a strong relationship with the Merce Cunningham Trust, and in 2024 Mitchell became an authorised teacher of the technique.

Mitchell is currently a member of Dance Makers Collective’s Artistic Directorate. He designs and leads programs for community, pre-professional and professional dancers across Sydney. He is passionate about delivering programs for people living with and without disability. Locally, Mitchell’s choreographic projects have been presented by Dance Makers Collective, Form Dance Projects, Redline Productions, ReadyMade Works, Catapult Choreographic Hub and Campbelltown Arts Centre.

Liliana Occhiuto

Liliana Occhiuto is a Western Sydney-based sound artist and Art Therapist who works across numerous artistic disciplines to create emotionally evocative and immersive pieces suited to art installations, film and theatre work.

Throughout her career as an artist and active collaborator, she has created works that have been displayed at numerous institutions, including Carriageworks, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, and PACT.