Project 24 is an artistic “conversation”, responding through creative exchange, 24 times between two artists on the 24th of each month for 24 months. This project began in March, 2010 out of a dialogue between Mayrah Yarraga, (pictured left) Aboriginal visual artist and scholar, and Afro-Australian, P.D. Casely-Hayford, writer, sound artist, and new media artist. Project 24 aims to focus on creating new work from the artists's emotional response to their "place" and the other artist's work, in the moment. This evolves a new discussions and creative works that blurs the boundaries between individual and collaborative, ephemeral and permanency, planned and unplanned, play-base and pre-meditated.

The project developed out of a discussion between the two artists on the notion of developing work over time. Rather than working singularly, or collaborating on the same work, these artists developed a new approach to their work; they chose to set up an initial exchange,which reflected the artists' "place" at that time, exchange, and create work from their respective gifts and converse with one another through their creative process. A conversation between two people: an exchange of ideas often grounded by a shared focus or subject. Likewise, Project 24 explores the notion of creative conversation is the process of focusing and listening, followed by responding and referencing their respective work. Each artist’s work is their response relayed in their creative language. Between the “conversations” neither speaks about the work; leaving the work to be the vehicle of dialogue. This “creative discussion” is constantly changing form.

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