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• Justin Enrico Legaspi ›
• Zari Moss ›

• I’m a Filipino-Australian interdisciplinary artist, writer and youth advocate based in Werribee. I work as an associate journalist with Good News West at Ylab where I’m writing stories that counter deficit-based narratives about Melbourne’s Western suburbs. I also volunteer and contract with Brimbank Youth Arts and Wyndham City Council’s youth advocacy group where I contribute to youth-led advocacy and arts programming. I’m interested in the advocacy side of creative practice. I enjoy connecting people with contemporary arts discourse and bringing spaces and conversations that are often concentrated within the inner-city into the communities I live and work alongside.
• 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.