Cool Change

Cool Change is pleased to announce Katie Lenanton as the fourth and last participant in our 2026–27 Residency Program, working from our King’s Complex project space for eight weeks, from 11 January to 13 March 2027.

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This program is proudly supported by the WA Government. Cool Change is supported by the Visual Art, Craft and Design Framework, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

Photo: Inari Sandell.

Returning to Boorloo/Perth from Helsinki for her CC residency, Katie Lenanton will reconnect with her hometown through the curatorial project ‘Bar Tender’ (2022– ). Both a mobile pop-up art bar and a long-term relational artistic and curatorial project, her work draws parallels between the labour and social dynamics of a curator and a bartender. During service, she will listen patiently to the ideas, challenges, and hopes of artist-patrons, offering her advice and support over a wildcrafted drink.

Motivated by worldbuilding, change, and togetherness, Katie will utilise artworks, objects, and foraging practices to transform the Cool Change office into an environment for intimate social encounters. Through 1-on-1 conversations, she strives to create space for sharing, altruistic support, and solidarity. In addition to offering her time and bartending services by appointment, Katie will also host a larger gathering.

Katie Lenanton is an intersectional feminist curator, researcher, writer, and editor. She works with mediums like exhibition-making, social practice, wildcrafting, conceptual cocktails, installations, participatory sculptures, scent, sustenance, and publishing. Her practice is collective and site-specific, often taking the form of gatherings, workshops, and collective writing. She doesn’t work alone, and her practice is shaped through collaborations with artists.

Active in the cultural field since 2003, Katie’s roots are in DIY communities, contemporary art, publishing, and community organising. Asking the important question “Who is in the room, and under what conditions?”, she strives to make things happen in ways that feel comfortable, nourishing, and generative for everyone involved. She holds an MA in Curating, Medi

Cool Change is pleased to announce Jimi DePriest and Lia T as the first participants in our 2026–27 Residency Program, working from our King’s Complex project space for eight weeks, from 4 May to 4 July.

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This program is proudly supported by the WA Government. Cool Change is supported by the Visual Art, Craft and Design Framework, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

Photo: Mckenzie Eastman.

Jimi DePriest and Lia T, working together for the first time, will draw on their combined experiences in electronic art and sound design to explore how ‘clutter rejection’—an adaptive method observed in echolocating bats—can function as a vector for navigating dystopic chaos. Regarding this process as a behavioural response to the infiltration of urban noise into the acoustic terrain traversed by bats, the duo’s conceptual approach will problematise and reconfigure echolocation as a site of artistic inspiration and technological invention.

With Lia prioritising sound design, Jimi will work as the visual artist and engineer, utilising the CC studio as a space for material experimentation, technological development, and research. Working with a four-channel audio system, DIY electronics, and video projections, Jimi and Lia will catalyse a mercurial ecosystem of ultrasonic frequencies, digital synthesis, data signals, sensors, and moving images. Their collaboration will materialise an entropic sonic field, guided by a shared curiosity for chaotic feedback.

Jimi DePriest is an emerging electronic artist and researcher whose creative practice is influenced by their research interests in composing Marxist and anti-imperialist analyses of automation and weapons technologies. Fusing tactical media with bio-art, their work often distils the material consequences of neoliberalism and potentials for resistance into conceptually potent visual symbols.

The interdisciplinary nature of Jimi’s practice has enabled them to develop skills across critical theory, wet-lab media, electronics, and filmmaking. They seek to continue expanding this practice to produce increasingly complex and transgressive electronic media installations while broadening the conc

We are thrilled to share some more moments from from a few weeks ago.

After a few weeks of reflection we couldn’t be more grateful for such generous support and feedback from the audience in the room. Big thanks you all, and to everyone that took footage on the night feel free to send it to us!

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There are now only seven days left to submit an expression of interest to join Cool Change’s committee. We are looking for four new committee members, two of whom will replace our outgoing Secretary and Treasurer.

Applications (consisting of a cover letter and CV) close at midnight on Friday, 30 May 2025. For more information, please see our website or .

Please note: all committee member positions are unpaid volunteer roles.