First, a heartfelt thank you to Tina Stefanou. It has been an immense honour and privilege to develop her first major solo exhibition. We are enormously grateful for the generosity of knowledge, time, commitment, energy and, above all, friendship.
As with all of Tina’s projects, it takes a herd. We would like to extend our gratitude to the many collaborators, family, friends, colleagues and peers who have contributed to the exhibition. Our special thanks to Tina’s creative team including Anna Nalpantidis, Romanie Harper, Ellen Sayers, Steve Berrick, Alistair McLean, Joseph Franklin, Petra Leslie,Timothy Harvey, Will Normyle and Tom Goodman, who have worked alongside us throughout. And of course, to Matthew Cassar who has taken us with him on this high-adrenalin journey and shown us new ways of seeing.
We would like to thank publication contributors Fayen d’Evie, Tara Heffernan, Tessa Laird, Alexandra Pirici, Juundaal Strang-Yettica, Michael Taussig and Azza Zein — for expanding the understanding of Tina’s complex and layered practice, and for articulating how ocular-centrism in the ‘visual’ arts can be challenged through voice, anarchy and discordancy, vision through touch, collective hums, horsepower economies, and love. We are indebted to Lloyd Mst and Jake Bonin for bringing this digital publication to life. Thank you for your ingenuity and dedication to this conceptual and experimental online project, which extends upon the experience of the exhibition at ACCA, yet opens it up in entirely new ways.
You Can’t See Speed was brought to life thanks to an immensely talented and committed exhibition team including Samantha Vawdrey and Shae Nagorcka, alongside the incredible team of installers: Marty de Jesus, Kubota Fumikazu, Kurt Medenbach, Nicholas Smith, Leon van de Graaff and Thomas Whelan. A personal thanks also goes to former Artistic Director & CEO, Max Delany for his early support and curatorial guidance of the exhibition.
Finally, our sincere thanks to the exhibition, presentation and government partners who have provided valuable support for You Can’t See Speed. We extend our gratitude to Olivia Anderson and Sarah Rowbottam and the wider team at Arts House, alongside former colleague Nithya Nagarajan; Joanna Kitto and the team at West Space; Ben Masters and Dale Moore at Yamaha; Erin Davidson and the grants team at Creative Australia. We also extend our thanks to Dulux and our media partners, 3RRR.
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