Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Back to Basics program / AUGUST 2022
Zoe Hogan
Australia
About
I am a teaching artist, writer and researcher based in Sydney,
Australia. I am interested in collaborative approaches to
creativity and my first love is, and remains, theatre. I love
facilitating spaces for self-expression and most of my work in
recent years has been with refugee and migrant communities.
I recently co-wrote a book, Connecting through Drama, and
am currently undertaking arts-based research with The
University of Sydney and Sydney Theatre Company.
See a moose
At the beginning of the residency, I wrote myself a brief
manifesto. On it was listed, ‘see a moose.’ The next line: ‘don’t
take it too seriously’. I never did see a moose, so I’m not sure
how seriously I would have encountered such a colossal,
strange animal. What I did do was read Mary Oliver poems
every day, collect berries, absorb hours of data recordings,
write a play script, observe insects, write thousands of words
for my PhD, rediscover the pull of the blank page, stare out of
windows. It was a curious mix of productivity and idleness; a
magical and altering time.