Malcolm Whittaker is a young man from Sydney who works as an interdisciplinary artist, writer and performer. He does this in solo pursuits, as a member of performance collective Team MESS and in other collaborations with artists and non-artists. Each is a process of playing within the conventions, rituals and spectacles of the everyday – seeking to close a critical distance between the work and the viewer in order to open up a shared space of experience, exchange and possibility. The material situations of these spaces range from theatre and gallery settings to site-specific and public interventions to performance lectures, film shoots, phone calls, walks in the park, letters in the mail and the borrowing of books from the library.