The British Council is proud to support an innovative cross-cultural collaboration between SPILL Festival (UK) and Jodee Mundy Collaborations (Australia) as part of our Connections Through Culture programme. Jodee Mundy’s Personal will be performed on October 26, 2025 as part of the SPILL Festival in Ipswich, UK. 

SPILL and Mundy will deliver a programme of activities related to Personal, which uses multimedia, documentary and access aesthetics to explore the experiences of Codas, the hearing children of Deaf adults. The programme will include artist-led and signing-first public discussions, an intergenerational creative workshop for Deaf/Coda families, and digital professional exchange sessions for Deaf/Coda performance-makers. 

Personal is based on Jodee Mundy's own experience. She first discovered that all her family was Deaf when she got lost in a department store. She didn't see 'disability', only the love and protection of those closest to her. Presented in Australian Sign Language, English and creative captions, Personal conveys Jodee's experience as a CODA (child of Deaf adults) through this captivating blend of performance, multimedia and animation. This smart, touching and intimate performance explores the joys and contradictions of inhabiting two worlds: living in a Deaf family, where using sign language is natural; and living in a society that sees only the family's disability. 

Also on the programme is Mother Father Deaf workshop for Deaf and CODA family groups hosted by Mundy, and a special screening of two films created by Mundy, Imagined Touch and Camp CODA. 

For more information visit SPILL Festival website.  

SPILL is an arts organisation and registered charity based in Ipswich. They bring internationally-significant art and artists to Ipswich for SPILL Festival, host events and activities in their intimate 'Think Tank' venue, and directly support artists through residencies, workshops and mentoring programmes. Their multidisciplinary art projects are unusual and memorable, designed to cultivate curiosity about ourselves, each other, and the world we live in.

Jodee Mundy Collaborations (JMC) has played a critical part in the growing movement of Deaf and Disability Contemporary Arts across Australia. Increasingly recognised across the world, Artistic Director Jodee Mundy OAM produces high quality contemporary performance, film, documentary, installations, festivals and artistic interventions. Jodee is a Disabled artist and a Coda (Child of Deaf adults).

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