Cassandra Tytler with Town of Victoria Park
Artist: Cassandra Tytler
Location: Burswood Park and Victoria Park
Project Partner: Town of Victoria Park
Work In Progress: Cassandra's project aims to develop a participatory performance game that treats Burswood Park/Joorolup and surrounding areas as a space of rehearsal for navigating its current conditions and possible futures. Responding to the proposed motorsport circuit, the project draws on and disrupts competitive sport and game structures. Through play, the project opens up ways of engaging with place that are often absent in formal consultation, foregrounding embodied, relational, and more-than-human perspectives. Developed through community input, the project incorporates local experiences and speculative responses to possible futures.
About the artist:
Cassandra Tytler is an artist and researcher whose practice spans experimental moving image, performance, and site-based socially engaged artworks. She examines the power hierarchies shaping relationships between human and more-than-human ecologies, and how these dynamics contribute to exclusion, oppression and the climate crisis. Through speculative and immersive works, she creates situations where audiences encounter these systems differently and where other relations can briefly emerge.
Known for her wry humour and incisive critique, Tytler combines storytelling and technical experimentation to investigate the intersections of politics, place, and power. Her installations and performances often unfold through site-responsive encounters that draw audiences into the layered conditions of a location, where humour and play sit alongside an engagement with environmental and social questions.
Originally from Naarm/Melbourne, she came to Boorloo/Perth as a Forrest Creative & Performance Fellow. As co-founder of the Moving Image Lab Perth (MILP), she leads monthly screenings and curates exhibitions and film festivals. Tytler has received support and exhibited her films with The Ian Potter Cultural Trust (Australia), the City of Stirling (Western Australia), The Camargo Foundation (France), Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles), F.A.C.T. (Liverpool), Harold Golen Gallery (Miami), Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne), Metro Arts (Brisbane).
About the project parter:
Located 10 minutes from the Perth CBD and home to state and national-level sporting grounds, Curtin University, green spaces galore and thriving communities, all centred around Albany Highway – one of the longest main strips in the Southern Hemisphere, packed with all manner of restaurants, cafes and retail stores – the Town of Victoria Park is a cultural hub nestled on the southern banks of Derbarl Yerrigan (the Swan River).
While the Town as we know it today has existed since the early 90s, recorded history of the area dates back to pre-European settlement, where there was evidence of Aboriginal presence on the Perth Coastal Plain and the site near the present-day Causeway was known as ‘Matta Gerup’ (knee deep). The Town’s Mindeera Advisory Group is named for Mindeera Springs, which served as a neutral meeting point for different tribes near this area. In 1829 the first non-Indigenous people settled in the area and the first land grants were issued. Originally established in 1894, it was absorbed into the City of Perth in 1917, before being proclaimed an independent municipality and closely resuming its original boundaries in 1994.
Fall.Small.Pivot., Cassandra Tytler, 2025, installation view. Image by Andrea Rassell.
