Murmurations

“Feelings can get stuck to certain bodies in the very way we describe spaces, situations and dramas”

- Sara Ahmed

Every tapestry starts with one little stitch that is built up on and with this in mind I ask you - reflecting

on your time during the last couple of years, what feelings that have arisen would you like to ‘unstick’

today?

Cohealth Arts Gen has commissioned artist Georgia Polichroniadis to create an abstract yet visceral

reflection of the experiences of cohealth workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This project will build on a previous work of hers – Embodying Veiled Utterances – in which she

engaged in reflective conversations with friends and family during Melbourne’s first lockdown and

translated the emotion and sentiment of the conversations into evocative embroidery pieces.

Bringing this process to cohealth, Polichroniadis will sit in conversation with a range of cohealth

employees – from frontline workers to administrative staff who have been working from home to

the managers and executives who have overseen all the pivoting and rapid responses – and ask

them to reflect upon the experience of working through the past three years.

The conversations will be transformed into a large-scale embroidery piece (made up of many smaller

pieces that will be made during the conversations) that embody the sensation of the pandemic years

as echoed by the workers in their reflections.