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This project is a creative response to the impact of fast fashion.

In Australia, 227,000 tonnes of clothing waste ends up in landfill every year. Most of this derives from fast fashion – clothing that follows quickly-changing trends so sales turnover is optimised. It is made cheaply, through poor factory working conditions, in the Global South.

We seek to raise awareness of this and challenge people’s complacency and complicity. Using processes derived from art therapy, improvisational theatre and visual art making, we create durational interactive activations where audiences come face-to-face with the waste. The project also seeks to redress the lost skill of hand making and repairing items.

Fast Fashun invites audiences to face their own contribution to this environmental and ethical crisis by presenting a real challenge: convert a literal tonne of op shop waste into wearable art, made for you, by you!

The project aims to bring together community, recognising that we are not alone in tackling issues contributing to climate crisis.

Participants interact with the waste alongside others, opening up discussions about the broader waste issue (and accompanying social issues) and contemplating their own behaviours and knowledge.

Fast Fashun received an acknowledgment from the 2021 Green Room Awards for Contemporary and Experimental Performance. The project was also a finalist in the Midsumma Australia Post Art Award in 2022.

Fast Fashun is available to be programmed within festivals and events. It can be tailored to suit different scale events and all age groups. Please get in contact for more information.

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‘What can only be described as a mad, technicolour, subversive and enlightened spectacle that Leigh Bowery would have been proud of.’ - The Report

Tenfingerz, Famous Artist Sebastian Berto, Luna Aquatica and Sarah Seahorse have been collaborating on projects for the past decade. Through visually impactful work and audience involvement, they aim to use their combined skillset to create art that is a tool for social change.


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TENFINGERZ (aka Teneille Clerke)

Tenfingerz (she/they) has a background in fashion where she worked as a photographer. She has spent the last ten years as a multi-disciplinary artist and creative producer with a focus on collaboration and community building through art-making and events.

Tenfingerz creates unique live-art experiences, inviting audience engagement through long-form immersive work, satire and social media content.

In 2021, Tenfingerz was the City of Yarra’s artist in residence for community art and climate action. As part of the residency, she curated and produced The Big Local Arts and Climate Expo. The show was nominated for a 2022 Green Room Award for artistic direction and curation in the Contemporary and Experimental Performance category. Website


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FAMOUS ARTIST SEBASTIAN BERTO

Sebastian (they/them) works as a graphic designer, illustrator and art-therapist and has a BA in animation and Interactive Media. They have facilitated interactive art spaces at the NGV and their collaborative illustrative work has been featured on Melbourne’s Art Trams, as part of the Melbourne Festival, also taking out the People’s Choice Award. Instagram


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LUNA AQUATICA AND SARAH SEAHORSE

Luna and Sarah’s work holds at its core a deep appreciation for human and environmental symbiosis. For over a decade Luna and Sarah have used recycled media and found objects to create fantastical displays of wearable art, innovative costuming, millinery, large scale soft fabrication, body puppetry and provocative performance.

Luna and Sarah are two-time award winners at the international World of Wearable Art Awards.

Between them, Luna and Sarah hold degrees in Youth work and Community Development, Community Theatre and Costume Design and have vast experience in community art making and the costume and theatre industries. Website