UN(COMFY)
Ash Hem with cushions by Amanda Wolf and audio mixing by Levi Kohler
How comfortable are you with discomfort?
Gender is confusing. What does it mean? What does it mean for you? For others? Where does it start, or end? When you question gender, you might find yourself in this weird space of confusion and uncertainty. It’s okay. You can find comfort in the discomfort. You can have no idea who you are and embrace yourself anyway. You can slip and slide between different ideas. Let yourself explore. Let yourself sit and cosy up in the unidentified unknown that is neither on a side or in between. Know you’re not alone in that experience. It might feel unsettling, but maybe it’s freeing that you’re allowed to exist in that un(comfy) space for as long as you need – forever even.
Does this space make you feel comfy or uncomfy?
Ash Hem is a visual artist, peer worker and facilitator. In all these things they pull from their lived experiences to create things and support others. This includes their queerness, gender, culture, disability and all other bits of their life.
Amanda Wolf is a contemporary artist with professional experience across education, library services, and the creative arts industry. As an extension of Amanda’s own creative research and curatorial practice, they love facilitating spaces and experiences that enable people to connect and explore new ideas.
Levi Kohler (they/them) is a music producer, singer-songwriter, audio engineer and DJ. Levi's work is always pushing the boundaries of genre, with music that often blends disparate influences from the depths of the underground and the heights of the charts.