Artist-2-Artist: Exploring Umwelt with Greg Pritchard
Saturday 27 June from 1:30pm to 2:30pm
In this session, Dr Greg Pritchard introduces the concept of Umwelt, the idea first developed by biologist Jakob von Uexküll, that every organism inhabits its own perceptual world, shaped by its sensory capacities and ecological relationships.
Through discussion, demonstration and informal experimentation, participants will be invited to consider how perception operates across species and living systems, and how artistic practice might gesture toward these worlds without fully translating them.
This session forms part of Greg’s Scene Shift Residency, a program supporting artists to develop work across regional and metropolitan contexts through exchange, experimentation and public outcomes.
About the artist
Greg Pritchard is a regionally based multi-genre artist with a long history as a performance artist, writer, digital media artist, installation artist, and conceptual artist. He has worked independently and as part of various collectives and partnerships to produce works that range in scale, from small solo performances up to the giant celebratory spectacles of Nati Frinj and Poppet Bendigo.
Recently, Greg has had residencies at Fprojects in Warrnambool, with Brand X in Sydney, and with Creative Exchange at the Lighthouse Residency in New Castle. The latter two were to work on Umwelt, and the Warrnambool residence was about recording natural sounds and videos to feed into LOOM, the major project for the Natimuk Frinj Biennale in November last year, which he produced, a large grain shed where Lidar reads audiences members positions and Touch Designer changed the projected imagery.
What will you learn?
Apply ecological and philosophical thinking to creative practice
Explore perception beyond the human sensory framework
Consider how technology and audience participation can mediate or extend perception in art-making and multispecies worlds
How to get here
Train: 2-minute walk from Town Hall Station
Light rail: 2-5 minute walk from light rail platforms
Metro: Gadigal Station is a 1 minute walk from the Bathurst Street exit/entrance
Bus: 5 minute walk from Elizabeth Street, Stand C and D
Car: Wilson Parking, 14 Wilmot St, Sydney or Meriton Suite Parking, 100 Bathurst St, Sydney
Accessibility
We welcome all visitors to City of Sydney Creative Studios. If you have access requirements, please add your accessibility requirements during the booking process.
If you require an interpreter, or would like to contact someone about access, please email Dean Nash (Accessibility Coordinator) at access@brandx.org.au.
Community tickets: We offer free tickets for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people experiencing financial hardship. To access these tickets please email marketing@brandx.org.aufor a no questions asked spot (unless sold out).
Exchanges & refunds
Want to cancel your ticket? Please email us at programs@brandx.org no less than 24 hours prior to workshop commencement. We can refund your tickets minus transaction fees of 1.75% + 30c.
Header image: LOOM, Natimuk Frinj Biennale, 2025.
This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW and the City of Sydney Creative Studios. The Scene Shift Residency Program is a Cad Factory and Brand X Collaboration and is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.