Together, Daniele and Olivia bring a cross-generational, interdisciplinary approach to their collaboration — blending decades of international experience with fresh, socially reflective artistic perspectives.
Their work emphasises deep community engagement, visual spectacle, and the creation of truly localised and resonant public art experiences.
Daniele Poidomani/Memetica
Daniele Poidomani is an Australian artist and director working in large-scale puppetry, street theatre, and community-engaged performance. He is the founder of Memetica and has over twenty years of experience creating participatory cultural projects that bring together professional artists and local communities in public spaces.
Daniele’s practice is informed by lived experience across multiple languages and cultural contexts, developed through migration, international collaboration, and long-term work with diverse communities.His work explores how stories, behaviours, and identities shift when people encounter unfamiliar contexts, using visual theatre and embodied performance as accessible tools for cultural exchange.
Daniele was one of the original developers of the People Puppet Project, a large-scale community workshop and performance model that has been delivered internationally with diverse communities. He has directed community workshops and roving performances across Asia, Europe, South America, and Australia, including projects in Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, Brazil, the Netherlands, Macau, China, and Australia.
Through Memetica, Daniele has led artist-led exchanges that combine creative development, public presentation, and skills-sharing, supporting long-term relationships between artists, communities, and cultural organisations. His work has been supported by organisations including Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, the City of Melbourne, and other public funding bodies.
Olivia Floate/sausage woman
Working under the name ‘sausage woman’, Olivia Floate (she/her) (b.1993 Melbourne, Victoria) is a
potter and puppeteer of Anglo-Indian descent living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Broadly
speaking, she examines anthropomorphism in inanimate objects.
Olivia’s work as a giant puppet maker and puppeteer scrutinises existing social systems, most
recently evident in her first full solo work Mother and Baby which premiered at Melbourne Fringe
Festival 2025. She began her puppetry work with the Footscray-based puppet company Snuff
Puppets in 2018, and has since developed and puppeteered numerous shows, tours, and roaming
performances, most notably, the stage show SWAMP. Olivia’s puppets can additionally be seen in the
music video Mother by the band Girl and Girl (Sub Pop Records).
Conversely, her work as a potter consists largely of hand-built sculptural – but sometimes functional –
pieces, all featuring a pair of lidded eyes and set of small lips. Sometimes described as ‘disquieting’,
these pottery works simultaneously acknowledge the materiality of clay and glazes whilst exuding
their own figurative spirit.
Olivia has been actively involved in Merri-bek, Maribyrnong, and Melbourne city councils’ artist
initiatives, including the Making Space, Arts Box, Western Arts Mentorship, and Quick Response
residencies and funding programs.
In solo settings, Olivia has held shows at The University of Melbourne’s George Paton Gallery, Chin
Chin restaurant’s Wall of Art, and Library at the Dock’s vitrines. In 2024 she filled the City of
Melbourne’s Assembly Point outdoor vitrines with her first body of work encompassing the full scope
of her practice.
Olivia holds two bachelor degrees from the University of Melbourne. Firstly, in Fine Arts (Sculpture
and Spatial Practice, 2014), and secondly in Arts, majoring in Art History with a concurrent diploma in
Russian Studies (2021).
Currently, she bases her practice out of her private studio at BRUDI in Brunswick, where she has
been working for the past two years.