Zari Moss

I’m Zari, a naarm/ Melbourne-based writer, producer, curator and filmmaker whose
practice traverses fiction, poetry, and experimental moving-image work. More broadly, my practice functions as ongoing interrogation and reimagining of the aesthetic essences that I encounter. Rita Felski has attempted to develop a ‘neophenomenology’ which entails “a sustained attention to the sheer range and complexity of aesthetic experiences, including moments of recognition, enchantment, shock, and knowledge. Such experiences speak to academic as well as lay practices of reading; they connect us to our lives as social beings, while also inviting us to pick up a book or to become utterly engrossed in a film.” Felski, The Limits of Critique, 191–192. This description of analytical encounter intertwined with affective experience resonates with the way I engage with creative work.