infinite iterative piece welcomes you to find what you didn’t know you were seeking. A poem created just now, just for you, appearing through chance and hope and randomising software. infinite iterative piece is compiled of all the lost lines that didn’t become poems, the photos and footage that feel more like poetry, the ideas that shouldn’t go together, and the narratives that they tell.

Presented across three screens the words and images chop and change in a randomised configuration creating new experiences for each viewer. The screens create something of a digital ‘exquisite corpse’ where neither creator nor audience know what will be revealed in any single moment. The work can continue to grow and expand as more lines are added with time, a vessel for infinite questions and answers.

The work brings together two enquiries by the artist – poetry and film – and in particular the synergies between these mediums. Both poetry and film editing in particular take a preexisting language or set of images and arrange them in complimentary, contrasting or contradictory ways to communicate something to an audience. In that pairing, you create a third space where new knowledges are revealed.

By presenting the work in this randomised way, infinite iterative piece reflects both the overload of content and imagery that exists in our world, and the very human desire to make meaning of all that input. The poetics of life often reveal themselves to us in surprising ways, and infinite iterative piece seeks to be a gift for audiences looking for pause and beauty within the chaos.

Are you a morning or a night person? I am an aspirational morning person but it doesn’t always come naturally.

Is there a sound or song that prompts a where or when for you? Oh so many! Different bird songs remind me of being a kid growing up in the bush. Pop songs transport me to who I was when I first heard them. Different languages remind me of travels or friends. I am a very nostalgic person so I love revisiting past experi- ences through different sensory invitations.

Is there something you’ve always collected? I have collecting (hoarding) tendencies – my work for Between Waves is sort of about that exact impulse. Ever since I was small I’ve especially loved collecting bits of paper, vintage postcards, old books, notepads and any sort of 2D scraps. Now I often justify holding onto these things for potential artworks, but as yet I haven’t made any work from them!

Where do you feel the most at connected / where do you feel the most disconnected? Bodies of fresh water are my favourite place to be. I don’t assume that I am necessarily always welcome and so I go gently and listen deeply, but when I feel a welcoming connection those special places are always my favourite.

What scares you the most right now / what inspires you? I have huge climate anxiety and am deeply afraid of impending climate collapse. But I am inspired by the love, care and responsibility First Nations mob from around the world have for our Countries and believe that will be the only thing that can truly save us from disaster.

Through the process of making your new commission for Between Waves, what has been revealed and/or become more obscured? Making infinite iterative piece has given me a place to put an endlessly long list of lines, ideas and images. Leaving things to chance has made me feel more relaxed in how to engage with these things: to relinquish them to the world and to allow process to lead.

born 1992, Cammeraygal Country/Sydney
lives and works on Gadigal Country, New South Wales

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist whose creative and cultural practice encompasses installation, performance, film, and text-based works. Across these mediums Money’s practice is centred around questions of narrative and legacy: place memory, First Nations memory, colonial memory and the stories that we tell to construct national and personal identity.

Their writing has been widely published and performed nationally and internationally, and performed on stages around the world, including TEDxSydney, Australia; Edinburgh International Book Festival, Scotland; Sydney Opera House, Australia; Literature Live! Mumbai, India; Performance Space New York, United States; Auckland Writers Festival, New Zealand; PEN International, online; among other arts and literary festivals.

Jazz’s first poetry collection, the best-selling how to make a basket, 2021, published by University of Queensland Press, was the winner of the David Unaipon Award in 2020. Money was awarded the Australia Council for the Arts’ prestigious Dreaming Award in 2022.

Money has presented work in a range of national exhibitions including With Textual Consent, La Trobe Art Institute, 2023; How I See It, ACMI, 2022; Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2022; Eucalyptusdom, Museum of Applied Arts and Science, Sydney, 2021, and Fremantle Biennale: Crossings, for Fremantle Biennale, 2021. Money’s major feature film WINHANGANHA, 2023, commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive, will premiere at the British Film Institute in London before an international and national tour.

Money’s work is held in major national collecting institutions Artbank, Australia; ACMI, Melbourne; La Trobe University, Melbourne; and University of Sydney Libraries, Sydney.

Money is a Clothing Store resident artist at Carriageworks in Sydney, 2023.