Creating work from personal experience

Sharing personal stories with the world can be emotionally taxing. Performance artist Jodee Mundy reveals what it takes to create work from one's own history.
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When contemplating the last 40 years of her life, performance maker Jodee Mundy noticed that in that time, something about the world had changed, ever so slightly.

‘I noticed how the journey of disability has changed,’ she told ArtsHub.

Looking over old family archives Mundy was inspired to produce her latest work, Personal, a multi-sensory performance presented in two languages via a virtual interpreter, premiering at Art House, Melbourne on 24 April. ‘In a way it’s very rare to see a story in sign language on our stages – it’s usually an interpreter on the side of the stage interpreting story of people who hear,’ she said.

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