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Creative Producer, Superflux

Superflux create worlds, stories and tools that provoke and inspire people to engage with the precarity of our rapidly changing world

As Creative Producer for this small, dynamic studio I project managed and produced creative and experimental projects across public, private and cultural sectors. This included working with multiple international stakeholders on a large EU Horizon 2020-funded project, CreaTures, which explored best practice in creative processes that allow transformative and behavioural changes around environmental issues.

 

In addition to contributing to this academic research, and producing and project managing ambitious multimedia installations and speculative futures films (during the global COVID-19 pandemic), the role also included writing, securing and managing grants from funding bodies including the National Lottery Community Fund (Emerging Futures Fund) and Unboxed: Creativity.

 

This role required more than simply being a producer or project manager; each project had specific goals, objectives and milestones, but by not fixing how these were achieved I created spaces for greater innovation and creativity. This required an ability to be flexible and respond quickly to evolving processes. I worked closely with the studio team, contractors, partners and funders to understand the ebbs and flows of the work to continue to adapt systems to best support the creative rhythms of each person whilst still working towards high quality outcomes (during a global pandemic).


A project highlight was creative producing The Intersection. A project which told "stories of active hope from those who have fought to reimagine extractive technology, to serve community, support nature, and value planetary relationships."


Other highlights included:


Unexpected Collaboration for Invocation for Hope

In this immersive installation, commissioned by the Museum of Applied Arts exclusively for the the Vienna Biennale 2021, Superflux transported visitors into a vision of a post-anthropocentric future no longer determined by humans alone. Invocation for Hope encouraged people to reflect on our fragile, interconnected relationship with the natural world. It explored opportunities for creating strategies that go beyond human-oriented concerns for our climate-altered future, using concepts based on regeneration, redistribution, reparation, and rewilding.


I supported the core creative team in realising their vision, facilitating key partnerships such as working with a local council to secure a burnt tree from a wildfire for prototype testing. I also established innovative connections with a community fire service, which used traditional methods and horse-powered techniques to fell 400 burnt trees from an Austrian forest.


Community Engagement for Hope in the Heat

In collaboration with Somerset House, Superflux were awarded one of the inaugural Emerging Future Fund grants from the National Lottery Community Fund; a new scheme launched in response to conversations that emerged about the future beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. 

 

For this project, the studio worked with Somerset’s House Future Producers to imagine hopeful futures. In his book Planet Remade, Oliver Morton wrote, “the way a society imagines its future matters. And who gets to do the imagining matters.” Coming from backgrounds that are usually underrepresented in culture and the arts, the Future Producers are an important group of young adults who we brought into vital conversations about a climate altered future. This was only the second project for the Future Producers program, and the first to be delivered completely digitally due to the pandemic. I worked closely with the Somerset House team to recruit, and open up the opportunities for the Future Producers to develop their practice and collaborate despite working remotely. Their final works are available online.

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