compost : compose is an arts project, created by artist-curator Rasha Tayeh, hosting a series of discussions, exhibitions, performances and pop-up events across various ecologies and geographies. Taking inspiration from the soil, Rasha invites artists to make meaning of how we can compost old structures, let go, tend to grief, and decompose old ways of thinking, doing and being to find ways to compose new imaginaries for reparative futures and collective liberation.

For this iteration of the Emerging Curator Mentorship, Rasha will facilitate a development period with 3 artists at Blindside in December 2025. Work developed during this time will be performed at a public showing at Next Wave on Friday February 20th , followed by a public programme on Saturday 21st February 2026.

https://blindside.org.au/program/compost-compose

Sound & Bar Residency June – August 2025

Launched by Wonder Cabinet and Radio alHara in early 2025, the Sound and Bar Residency Open Call invited collectives, teams and initiatives of artists, curators, musicians, mixologists, producers, designers and creatives from all backgrounds and geographies to submit a project proposal for a one-of-a-kind residency merging the realms of mixology and bartending, radio and content curation, community-building and landcare.

compost : compose  by Rasha Tayeh (Palestine)

“compost : compose” is an ongoing project, hosting a series of discussions, visual art and installation works across various ecologies and geographies inspired by soil and de/composition.

Rasha Tayeh has been practicing in the arts for around 20 years, and has exhibited in Australia and internationally. With a background in photography and visual arts, then studying nutrition and herbalism, her interest lies in the intersection of art, land and health. Rasha’s practice is land-based, telling stories about people’s relationships in community and ecology. As the founding Director of Beit e’Shai, and the artist behind the project “Compost: Compose”, Rasha will takeover the bar with a botanical bar menu of herbal mixology, a broadcast on Radio alHara, a weekly Sunday Teahouse Session and curated online & offline public programme of workshops, talks and collaborations with Palestinian & Aboriginal and international artists, scholars and activists whose work is concerned with land and biodiversity.

https://wondercabinet.space/sound-and-bar-residency-2025