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Sarah Rodigari

A woman wearing glasses and a black puffer jacket inside a large, open industrial building.

10 people dressed in warm winter clothing, seated on tiered bench seating, inside a basic plywood cubicle. The cubicle is framed by heavy black curtains.

A woman wearing glasses and a black winter coat stands by a basic plywood cubicle, holding aside a heavy black curtain.

A woman wearing glasses and a black winter coat stands in a basic plywood cubicle, inside a large, open industrial building. The woman is pushing a basic bed with white bedsheets away from the cubicle. Next to the cubicle are a small plywood shelf and heater.

A woman wearing glasses and a black winter coat, pushing a basic bed with white bedsheets, inside a large, open industrial building.

A woman wearing glasses and a black winter coat stands in a basic plywood cubicle, stacking basic white benches on top of one another.

Sarah Rodigari

born 1976 in San Francisco, US
lives and works on Gadigal land, Eora nation, Sydney, Australia

Sarah Rodigari was a participating artist in the Australian Artists' Residency Program as part of Marina Abramović: In Residence, 2015.

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Sarah Rodigari creates performances that address economies of exchange pertaining to socio-political engagement, shared authorship and new institutional critique. Working at the intersections of theatre, visual art and social practice, her method is responsive and context-specific. Recent projects take the form of lecture, text, video, collaboration and curation.

Rodigari has presented work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Melbourne International Arts Festival; South Project, Indonesia; PACT Zollverein, Germany; Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow; The National Review of Live Art, UK; Anti-Contemporary Arts Festival, Finland, and SOMA, Mexico City. Sarah has a BA (Hons) in Sociology (UNSW), a Masters in Fine Art (RMIT) and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Art at the University of Wollongong. She recently published a chapter on performance art and sympathetic magic for the publication Travel and Transformation and co-edited the book Going Down, an anthology of contemporary Sydney performance. Rodigari is a founding member of the collective Field Theory, who make and support art projects that cross disciplines, shift contexts and seek new strategies for intervening in the public sphere.