Phillipa Stafford

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Phillipa (Pip) Stafford is an artist, researcher, audio producer and aspiring lawyer. Pip has a multifaceted sound practice, for which she builds radios, transmitters and other electronic ephemera to create recorded and live, improvised sound work. She has created sound commissions for ABC Radio National and Constellations Audio, and has produced projects and events for Hobiennale, ISEA, LISTEN and Private Projects (of which she was a founding co-director). She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the University of Tasmania and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Deakin University. Pip has worked with arts organisations such as Liquid Architecture, Next Wave, Underbelly, The Unconformity, Bus Projects and Contemporary Art Tasmania. She has been artist in residence at CESTA (CZ), Speedy Grandma (BKK) and for Arts Tasmania’s Education Residencies at Hobart College. She produced Contemporary Art Tasmania’s What are you looking at? podcast between 2015 and 2023 and currently consults for Make and Do with Andrew Harper.  Pip is currently assisting the defence team in the Bahtijari case at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in the Hague, and is administrative and legal research assistant to Professor Felicity Gerry KC. She has a special interests in defences in international criminal law, queer and feminist approaches to international law, and the intersection of sound and law.