Jessica Munna is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice sits between performance, visual culture and documentary inquiry. Using humour, image-making, audio and essayistic research, her work examines the unequal systems through which people are represented — and how authorship can be reclaimed.

Working across performance, film, voice, photography, collage and audio, Jessica’s practice is rooted in questions of who gets seen, who gets heard, who gets to make the image, and who gets to tell the story. Her work often uses satire, documentary attention and embodied performance to explore gender, beauty, illness, labour, grief, power and the politics of being looked at.

Jessica began her career in documentary film and international arts education, working across production, post-production, performance and cultural exchange contexts. She was awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for her work using music, theatre and film in community and peace-building settings, and spent several years living, studying and teaching internationally. This early work continues to shape her practice: a concern with witnessing, framing, listening, access, and the ethics of representation.