Lleah Smith learns with fermentation ~ as material, metaphor, method + methodology…

She considers dialogical processes, hospitality and friendship as the foundational building blocks for radical and relational work.

She works across pedagogy, art, and curatorial practice, and is enlivened by the possibilities of bringing together diverse bodies across ages, cultures, and disciplines. At the heart of her enquiries is a deep curiosity in how knowledges move…

She plays with productive agitation as a mode where discomfort becomes generative, where disturbance is not settled but sustained, and where conflict is held not to be solved but listened to. Here, agitation is a living presence—a pulse, a force—through which collective disturbance opens toward pressure, possibility, and relation.