Developed inside the studio
Music, films, field-led visual work, books and educational formats that begin with our own questions. These are not client packages: they grow through artists, research, funders, cultural partners and audiences.
Originals, not commissions
A commissioned project begins with a partner's brief. An original begins here—with a scientific idea, a relationship with nature, or a human question we want to carry into popular culture. Partners can fund, host, license, publish or help produce it without turning it into client work.
Released and active
Song · music film · dance · 2024
Dr WELI's research on personality and social behaviour in wild eastern grey kangaroos became a pop song, film and multicultural Canberra dance cast. The work connects behavioural difference with the idea that difference makes diversity possible.
AAAS Dance Your PhD Overall Winner 2024 · 238+ media features across five continents.
Song · live performance · 2024
A Portuguese-language sci pop song built from WELI's undergraduate research on goats. It premiered at the opening plenary of the Encontro Anual de Etologia 2024 in Brazil.
Photography · field and studio · active
A growing image world about people, animals and shared landscapes. The project is open to co-hosts in new locations and to photographers, models, stylists and other collaborators.
In development
An upcoming sci pop album exploring how humans connect: to self, to one another, to community and nature, and to possible futures. Field sound and scientific thinking are being developed as part of its musical language.
Books, screen and educational formats growing from the kangaroo research world, with difference, belonging and animal social life at their centre.
Recording and visual research in Australian environments, developed toward production-ready textures, films and future releases.
Take part
Fund a development stage, host fieldwork or a public outcome, license released work, publish a format, or join a project as a creative collaborator.
