A new creative co-location

Bringing together two leaders in arts engagement and innovation, the ANAT + OSCA office partnership opens new opportunities for collaboration.

As ANAT CEO Melissa DeLaney explains, “We’re offering a co-working office space model to encourage aligned industry collaborators to cohabit with ANAT, creating proximity that fosters deeper exchange, shared learning and new possibilities.”

This creative co-location strengthens resource sharing and supports exchange across the experimental cultural landscape, nationally and here in Adelaide. The shared space reflects a practical commitment to sustainability and a flexible, future-facing approach to how we work.

Open Space Contemporary Arts (OSCA) is an artist-led South Australian organisation creating new models of participation and arts engagement across city, urban and regional sites. Over the past decade, it has produced interdisciplinary projects connecting people with ideas about place, community and the environment, engaging audiences from small groups to thousands. With a focus on artist-driven initiatives, OSCA supports innovative collaborations in performance, video, installation and public events.

Formerly known as KneeHigh Puppeteers, OSCA has been a South Australian arts maker since 1995, originally gaining recognition for large-scale puppetry, spectacle theatre, and community engagement projects led by Tony Hannan. Under the leadership of Dario Vacirca, and later Artistic Director Paul Gazzola and General Manager Janine Peacock, OSCA expanded into interdisciplinary practices across performance, video, installation, and curated events. 

Since 2023, an artist-led team including Paul Gazzola, Cheri Fang and Alicia Wakeling continues to guide the organisation, supporting independent artists and producing innovative, community-focused projects in city, urban and regional sites.

“OSCA is very excited to relocate to the ANAT office on North Tce. Their generous offer to share resources aligns with OSCA’s push to sustainable models of practice and organisational dexterity. We welcome this shift and the ability to connect with this innovation like-minded organisation into the future. Thanks team ANAT”

Artistic Director / Co-CEO Paul Gazzola is an artist and curator working across participatory art, sculpture, video and scenography. Over the past 20 years, he has developed innovative projects spanning visual art, architecture, installation, video and theory, presented internationally in Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa, South America, the UK and Europe. Originally trained as a carpenter, with a B.A. in Performance (Dance), Feldenkrais certification, and architectural studies from 2004, Paul’s work explores spatial and performative relationships between body, site and built form. He has collaborated with artists including Meg Stuart, Xavier Le Roy, Tino Sehgal and Rosie Dennis, and companies such as Les Ballets C de la B and Fieldworks Performance Group, while also curating and leading arts projects across Australia, Europe and South Africa.

Cheri Fang is OSCA’s long-term Senior Manager for Finance and Operations. Her official qualifications include Accounting, Finance and International Trade however her professional goal is to combine her skills, knowledge and expertise with immersion in the contemporary arts. Cheri’s work at OSCA is the perfect platform for this and her work over the last fourteen years has seen her manage both OSCA’s many changes and oversee their growing arts program. Cheri has recently become a registered teacher, and is passionate about bringing a variety of visual and performing arts programs into the classroom.

Alicia Wakeling is a marketing consultant who specialises in working with non profits and the arts. Starting out in more traditional advertising agencies, she’s worked in Australia and the UK for brands large, small and everything in between. She was drawn to OSCA for the incredible work they do in making art accessible to the community. She’s excited by the opportunity to contribute to more people coming to know what OSCA do and be involved in their work.