Abstract
Researcher-filmmakers Catherine Gough-Brady, Kim Munro, Christine Rogers and Cassandra Tytler explore the embodied spaces and connections between the creator and the audience. Using their own practice in installation, theatre and filmmaking, they interrogate who these spectators might be. They use three ‘provocations’ as a way of discussing the audience: How do we engage the audience in the work? What methods do we use to engage the audience before and after the work? And, what is the place of critical filmmaking both in academia and in wider society? There is a plurality of voices in the responses, in the experiences, and the works shared. Yet, a central theme emerges in these diverse voices of a screen-based creative practitioner’s desire for the audience to be an active community rather than a passive spectator.