Making Of Luke George & Daniel Kok

Join us for an evening of insight with esteemed artists Luke George and Daniel Kok (please note this session starts at 7:00pm), two of Australia’s most compelling and boundary-pushing performance artists, as our fifth and final guests in our 2025 'Making Of' series. This evening coincides with Griffith University's Art Museum 2025 Honours & Masters Graduate exhibitions opening night.

Through this platform we invite celebrated arts professionals and artists to share their early career explorations, as well as the significant opportunities, processes and decisions that've nurtured their growth in the industry.

About the Artists:

Luke George (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist creating work that spans performance, installation, craft and curation. Luke was born in lutruwita/Tasmania and resides on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne. Through their work, Luke examines the dynamics of intimacy and collectivity to create ‘safe spaces’ that allow for care as well as risk. Luke’s artistic practice is informed by queer politics and spaces, whereby people are neither singular nor isolated; bodies of difference can intersect, practice mutual listening, take responsibility for themselves and one another. Luke creates and performs work across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, with notable presentations at the Venice Biennale, National Galleries of Victoria and Singapore, RISING, Dance Massive, Liveworks Festival, Rencontres chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis, Time Based Art Festival and many more. Luke was a 2019 Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship recipient, in 2020 appointed inaugural Artistic Associate of Temperance Hall and in 2022 was bequeathed a Chloe Monroe Fellowship.

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 have 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” was won Outstanding Contemporary and Experimental Performance and Design/Technical Achievement at 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.

Event Information:

WHEN: Friday 7 November | 6:00PM - 8:00PM⁠ AEST

Galleries Open | 6:00pm [Cash bar and light finger food available]

Opening Ceremony GUAM 2025 Honours & Masters Graduates | 6:30pm

Making Of Luke George and Daniel Kok | 7:00pm

Event concludes | 8:00pm

WHERE: Griffith University Art Museum & Griffith University Lecture Theatre

FREE | ALL WELCOME

The 2025 'Making of' series is presented in partnership between Outer Space and the Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM).⁠

Image Credit: Daniel Kok and Luke George, Liveworks Festival, 2022. Carriageworks, Sydney. Photo: Daniel Boud, courtesy of ABC Arts.