Jade Muratore is an artist, researcher, and producer with over 12 years’ experience in the arts, cultural and tertiary education sectors.
Jade was a founding and core member of the artist collective Hissy Fit (with collaborators EO Gill and Nat Randall) with whom she presented screen-based and live performance works at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Performance Space, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Arts House, and Carriageworks among others.
As a producer and project manager, Jade has worked with several cultural institutions and individual artists. In live performance: Adam Linder, Hustle Harder (producer, MCA, 2023); Field Theory & Sid McMahon, RUSH (production, Liveworks, Performance Space, 2022); Nat Randall & Anna Breckon, Set Piece (rehearsal production manager, 2021); Art Month Sydney (producer, precinct events, 2019); Nat Randall & Anna Breckon, The Second Woman (producer, 2024; participant coordinator, 2016-17). Screen-based projects: Diana Baker Smith & Kate Blackmore, Brief Illuminations (production, 2022); Diana Baker Smith, She Speaks in Sculpture (production, 2022); Willoh S Weiland, Lick Lick Blink (production coordinator, The National, MCA, 2019). In production management for installation and audience-engaged works, Jade has helped deliver the following projects for Sydney Festival: Proclamation, Barangaroo (project coordinator, 2020); Apollo 11, Barangaroo South (project manager, 2019); Jurassic Plastic (Hiroshi Fuji), Sydney Festival with ArtsPeople (event coordinator, 2018).
As a researcher and writer, Jade has a specific interest in queer performance, film and visual culture, alternative historicising practices and fandom methodologies, and is currently completing her PhD at UNSW Art & Design. Her PhD project titled Going Down, is focused on alternative historiography and the figure of the queer (un)dead in screen-based culture. She teaches at UNSW Art & Design in art history and theory and at AFTRS in research and development for Masters of Screen.