Jax Wechsler

Projects & Art

School of Being is a new initiative focused in Seeding change from the inside out and Restoring wellbeing within ourselves, our relations, our places and our living world.The School of Being grows inner, relational and systemic capacity toward the transition to flourishing futures. We are cultivating a learning community to unlearn, learn, and restore well-being and reciprocity within ourselves, our relationships, and our natural world. We support the movement towards planetary flourishing by empowering people to see, sense, and think differently, enabling us to act differently, individually and collectively. We believe that developing resilience, agility, and creativity are essential for generating life-sustaining patterns that support this vital transition.

 

In 2013, frustrated with the lack of dialogue and understanding about Social Design or (design for social outcomes) in Sydney, Jax founded Social Design Sydney at the 2013 Sydney Design Festival. Social Design Sydney aims to:

  • Create a dialogue around designing for social outcomes and systems change
  • Build a social design community of practice
  • Support design-led social change
  • Share stories of “design doing”
  • Build design capability through masterclasses

Jax coordinates events where practitioners present about their change work. All presentations can be found on a YouTube channel containing  a repository of social design case studies.

Sticky Design Studio Green Logo

In 2013, Jax set up Sticky Design Studio as a consulting entity. Sticky Design Studio has been consulting on research and human-centered design projects for NGO, commercial and government clients.

VIDEO ART PROJECTS

Frontiers in Photography is Scott Gillespie and Jax Wechsler who together create cinematic sound and visual-scapes.

Other examples of live improv video art show for the band Fabels

Jax used to work in a video art team called Slinky & Snudis as well as independently as a VJ/video artist. Below you can find some snippets of her work.

Dragon Dreaming 2016
Jax helped set up the projectors for the fire stage and assisted management of a team of VJs who played 2 stages at the festival (fire and water stages). Below is a video of the stages Slinky and Snudis managed.

This video short snippets of Jax’s show on the Fire stage.

Nourish Talks August 2015
Nourish Talks are meaningful events about nature, lifestyle, wellbeing and community, designed to uplift in a world that can seem heavy at times. I created themed video projections mapped onto the external walls of St Canice Church in Kings Cross for a few of these events. The clip below is from The Ground Beneath event.

Meme Brain 2013

Jax dabble with interactive video. This video shows a project created for the Meme Brain event. It comprises of video portraits created using gesture, voice and audiences posing.

Sydney Festival 2012

Slinky & Snudis provided live video content for several bands at the 2012 Sydney Festival Becks Bar.

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