With a focus on creating conditions for collaborative survival and equitable planetary futures, Luna Mrozik Gawler is an artist, writer and independent scholar attuning and attending to the articulations, temporalities and worlds beyond the human. A multigenre Symbiopunk, Luna works outside of disciplines intent on disrupting and refiguring anthropocentric paradigms by repopulating the social imaginary with multispecies companions, comrades and co-creators.
Some of this work has included; an interspecies surrogacy clinic (Carrykin 2023), Multispecies engagement audits for art Institutions (MEEP 2022), participatory re-worlding led by viral bodies (Emissary2920, 2020), an immersive insect kinship lab (Flight Path 2019) and a seven-hour participatory eco-grief ritual (Mokita, 2017).
Luna has been awarded; Most Significant Futures Works (MSFW) Award by The Association of Professional Futurists, the Nature Stewards Scholarship from Landcare Australia and Outdoor Victoria, a Green Room Award, and extended funding for ongoing work in art x science through the Creative Victoria Creators Fund. They have been a finalist in The TMRRW Future Awards, the Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change, and the Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Award.
Their work has recently been commissioned or programmed by: The Interspecies Library, The Center for Projection Art, Blindside Gallery, Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, The Australian Network of Art & Technology, The City of Hobart, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Multicultural Arts Victoria, The Sydney Institute for the Environment, MPavilion, Performance Space, This is Not Art Festival, NIDA Nights, The University of Utrecht, The University of Melbourne Center for Visual Art, The University of Sydney, The International Digital Media & Art Association, and Hillscene Festival of Live Art.
Alongside their material practice, Luna uses their research on multispecies thinking, ecologic stewardship and hope-full futures to publish fiction, non-fiction, academic scholarship as well as designing and facilitating educational programs, artist labs and industry panels. Some of the groups who have published this work include: Kings Run ARI, Next Wave, Art + Australia, The International Journal of Practice-based Humanities, Swamphen Journal of Cultural Ecology, TEXT Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, The Association for the study of Literature, Environment & Culture, Antipodes Journal of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies and Dark Mountain Journal and the University of Melbourne, the University of Utrecht and the Land Art Agency.
Luna is; Co-creator and convener of the Trans* Ecology Club, founder and facilitator of award winning Community Transmissions Futures Residency, one half of queer-time lab GEOFADE alongside Devika Bilimoria, founding member of ecological live-art collective L&NDLESS and a resident at School House Studios.
READING: A Nation of Plants- Stefano Mancuso & Always Coming Home - Ursula Le Guin
LISTENING: Getting to Know Rot - Sluggish Podcast
CURRENT: Swamphen Journal of Cultural Ecology, FRAME Doc Lab & WILD MEDIA: Wired Weirdness
FORTHCOMING: Autocthonia, WILD MEDIA 2024, International digital Media & Art Association