Photo above by Sarah Walker
Artist Statement
I believe in making art that “hurts, provokes, and rises in revolt to make the world a better place, ” (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit, Berlin).
My practice is collaborative and interdisciplinary, moving between theatre, text, movement, and multimedia. Drawing on surrealism, absurdism, and direct audience address, I create works that interrogate power structures and ask how cultural memory shapes our present. My work seeks to disrupt dominant narratives and open dialogic spaces for critical reflection and intimacy. My practice continually evolves, but at its core, insists on performance as a site of resistance, imagination, and collective awakening.
I am grateful to acknowledge the Woi Wurrung and the Boon Wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands I live, work, and create. To honour their Ancestors and Elders, past and present, and recognise the long histories of art-making and storytelling on these lands. Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land.
About
April’s projects have been supported by Metro Arts (Brisbane), Theatre Works (Melbourne), Bakehouse Studio (Adelaide), Women’s Circus, Darebin Arts Speakeasy, Indy Fringe (USA), Melbourne Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Sprechwerktheater, and Karlstorbahnhof (Germany). She holds an M.A. in Text and Performance Studies from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and King’s College London. She is currently completing her PhD in Theatre and Audiences at Queensland University of Technology.
Raised between the US and Europe, April is multilingual and has studied and performed in Germany, the UK, the US, and Australia. She works as a lecturer in Theatre, Devising, Cultural Policy, Creative Research Methods, and Arts Management in Naarm (Melbourne), and divides her time between Australia and Europe.
All photos below by Matto Lucas
I believe in making art that “hurts, provokes, and rises in revolt to make the world a better place, ” (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit, Berlin).
My practice is collaborative and interdisciplinary, moving between theatre, text, movement, and multimedia. Drawing on surrealism, absurdism, and direct audience address, I create works that interrogate power structures and ask how cultural memory shapes our present. My work seeks to disrupt dominant narratives and open dialogic spaces for critical reflection and intimacy. My practice continually evolves, but at its core, insists on performance as a site of resistance, imagination, and collective awakening.
I am grateful to acknowledge the Woi Wurrung and the Boon Wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands I live, work, and create. To honour their Ancestors and Elders, past and present, and recognise the long histories of art-making and storytelling on these lands. Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land.
About
April’s projects have been supported by Metro Arts (Brisbane), Theatre Works (Melbourne), Bakehouse Studio (Adelaide), Women’s Circus, Darebin Arts Speakeasy, Indy Fringe (USA), Melbourne Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Sprechwerktheater, and Karlstorbahnhof (Germany). She holds an M.A. in Text and Performance Studies from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and King’s College London. She is currently completing her PhD in Theatre and Audiences at Queensland University of Technology.
Raised between the US and Europe, April is multilingual and has studied and performed in Germany, the UK, the US, and Australia. She works as a lecturer in Theatre, Devising, Cultural Policy, Creative Research Methods, and Arts Management in Naarm (Melbourne), and divides her time between Australia and Europe.
All photos below by Matto Lucas
CV available on request - a.albert@ gmx.co.uk