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                    Jack Mitchell

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                    A structure under a tree made from branches and sticks
                    Jack Mitchell's work dwells at the intersection of art and architecture, creating place based multimedia explorations that explore connection to place and promote custodial relationships with the environment.

                    ​Exploring storytelling as a means of connecting to both Country and each other, Jack's work radiates out from this intersection, covering design, architecture, urbanism and audio and visual responses focused on deep listening and deep audience engagement. Jack is the co-founder of Resistance Transmission, an arts and culture research organisation that explores the intersection of nature and culture, and creates site specific audio visual responses focused on storytelling as a means to engage our innate custodial tendencies. With a background in architecture, Jack has worked as an Architectural Assistant and Indigenous Architectural Advisor for Jackson Clements Burrows Architects since August 2019 as part of their Indigenous Advisory Architecture and Design team, focusing on consulting work and other areas of the public sector.

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                    The project is an enquiry into the nature of convenience, comfort and security, expressed through a lived experiment that explores the boundaries of thermal comfort, adaptability and mobility as a living entity traversing the static modern urban landscape. By documenting the process of living outside a traditional dwelling, and exploring the boundaries of what I consider comfortable, I will build and adapt my mobile living situation to examine the conditions of urban human existence, and to discover which of our ancient tools we are blunting in exchange for our convenient modern lifestyles, and which ones we need to resharpen to prepare for the future.

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