Photo by Jorge Serra
Daniele is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on creating participatory, inclusive and socially driven works, currently working on the lands and waters of Kombumerri Country of the Yugambeh Language Region. She creates artistic works that draw from direct experience, site-responsive and community engaged practices; often using contemporary performance, dance, installation, sound, community and/or audience participation.
Her work is informed and shaped by community engaged methodologies; and a deep questioning and reorienting of community and ecology; encompassing the complex natural environments, more-than-human relationships and dynamics we are inherently a part of. Within her work she prioritises care, conversation, access and inclusion, and position relationships at the centre. Her work often offers playful temporal interventions, remedial actions, and invitations to shift perspectives - encompassing a wider lens with which to experience and navigate the social and physical environments around us.
Daniele has presented independent performance and contemporary art works with: Footscray Community Arts Centre, Festival of Live Art, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Testing Grounds, La Boite Theatre, Metro Arts, Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance, Queensland Poetry Festival, Castlemaine State Festival, HOTA and Undercover Arts Festival. Daniele is the Director of inclusive and disability-led arts collective Aha Ensemble.
Daniele is also the proud Director and Co Founder of social enterprise Suitcase Rummage, which takes place in Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and regional areas across the country.