Workshop
Future Folklore Lab with Justin Talplacido Shoulder and Victoria Hunt

Step into a generative space where ancestral practices and creative imaginaries converge. This workshop invites participants to explore modes of world-building through movement, storytelling, and personal histories.

Through intuitive movement and whakawhiti kōrero, Justin Talplacido Shoulder and Wikitōria Hunt will guide you in developing your own more-than-human performance avatar, drawing on your own cultural languages and personal mythologies.

This one-day workshop is open to movers, performers, and creatives of all backgrounds who are interested in deepening the expression of their identities through performance.

This workshop is limited to 20 people.

Justin Talplacido Shoulder is a shape shifting artist and storyteller, working primarily in performance, sculpture, video and collective events. Also known as Phasmahammer, their practice is an eco-cosmology of alter personas based on queered ancestral myth. Creatures birthed are embodied through hand crafted costumes and prosthesis and animated by their own gestural languages. The artist uses their body and craft as an instrument of metaphysics towards a queer Filipina Futurism. Shoulder believes in performance and shared ceremony as communal medicine for difficult times. Shoulder is also co-director of collective Club Ate with artist Bhenji Ra. Inspired by their shared Filipina heritage and interest to create new narratives of motherhood and sisterhood the pair created a series of fundraisers, balls, and variety nights inviting and celebrating their local Asia-Pacific queer and trans family.

Victoria Hunt (ia/she/they) is a transdisciplinary artist with bloodlines to Te Arawa, Rongowhakaata, Kahungunu, Irish, Scottish, English, Norway. Born on unceded Kombumerri Country (Surfers Paradise), living on Bidjigal (Sydney), her work as a dancer, choreographer, director, dramaturg, photographer and film-maker examines Indigenous epistemologies within diasporic concepts of identity formation and belonging. Grounded in Mātauranga Māori, BodyWeather and IndigiQueer resurgence, she traverses the politics of Rematriation by inserting bodies into frameworks of power, for future ancestors. Hunt's works have toured across six continents to critical acclaim.

Her recent work, KŌIWI, commissioned by the Art Gallery of NSW and Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, gave form to a 'protector' entity and is currently travelling the world. She is co-founder of 'Weather Beings', a trans/national collective with 2S Mètis artist Moe Clark (Tio'tia:ke/Montreal). She is artist-in-residence at Carriageworks, and recipient of the Creative Australia Dance Fellowship (2025).