In the Works: ScreenWorlds
Description
In the Works provides a vital platform for artists to share ideas, test forms, and connect with audiences through a series of short works nights. In 2026, PACT will present three editions of In the Works across February, April and June, each curated by members of PACT’s Associate Artists team. This program exists in direct response to the ongoing lack of opportunities for emerging artists to develop and present new work.
Curated by Associate Artists Martin del Amo, Claudia Chidiac, Victoria Hunt and Jazz Money, In the Works: ScreenWorlds brings together a selection of screen-based pieces from artists across disciplines. Featuring new works by Gillian Kayrooz, Lucky Lartey, Hugo Poulet and Joel Sherwood Spring.
Photo credit for banner: Shane Rozario
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Lineup
Gillian Kayrooz
Gillian Kayrooz and her art practice were nurtured on unceded Dharug land in Guildford, Western Sydney and is deeply rooted in alternative methods of truth-telling through image-making. Working across photography, video and participatory practice, her work foregrounds collective memory, everyday life and community resilience while challenging dominant forms of representation. She was awarded the 2018 Create NSW Young Creative Leaders Fellowship and has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across Australia. Photo Credit: Jason Sukadana
Lucky Lartey
Lucky Lartey (he/him) is a Sydney-based interdisciplinary artist working at the nexus of installation art and choreography. Born in Ghana, West Africa, Lartey’s practice draws on a rich history of traditional Afro-rhythm, dance and architecture alongside a contemporary art practice spanning spatial drawing, video, animation, and installation. Lartey’s work explores themes of social justice, identity, movement inspired by African architecture, lived-experience of the exotification of non-Western bodies, and the relationship between hip hop culture and African oral traditions. Photo credit: Shane Rozario
Hugo Poulet
Hugo Poulet is a multidisciplinary independent artist based in Melbourne. A versatile and distinctive mover, he draws on a wide range of movement practices to expand the language of contemporary dance. He has performed with Stephanie Lake Company, Australasian Dance Collective and Sydney Dance Company, as well as with numerous independent choreographers. In 2024, Hugo premiered his first full-length work, orbital, at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists. He is currently developing SIGIL, a solo work exploring the intersection of dance and his music practice. Photo credit: Sean Slattery
Joel Sherwood Spring
Joel Sherwood Spring is a Wiradjuri interdisciplinary artist based in Sydney/Gadigal/Wangal lands working collaboratively on projects that examine ways of seeing Country through technology and desires for Indigeneity. Their current work confronts and channels both the desire for land and minerals at the core of our national identity and what today appear as 'progressive' identity formations. “Exploring the potential of Indigenous materialist readings of art and architecture towards repatriation, reparation, and return of land. I am learning how to employ art making, exhibition making, publishing, and pedagogy within what is recognised as black or Indigenous studies.”
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