POETRY IS DEAD

13 June 2014 | 1 comment



Poetry is Dead is a collaboration between writer/poet Josh Donellan and musician/soundscape artist Mike Wilmett. Josh is the author of A Beginner’s Guide to Dying in India and the forthcoming Killing Adonis, as well as the acclaimed new theatrical work We Are All Ghosts. He has been performing as a poet since 2012 and has appeared on stages at the Brisbane Festival, The National Poetry Slam and the Laura St Festival.

Mike is a sound/AV artist and designer with a visual art background. While also moonlighting in band My Fiction, works of note include Room 328 (World Theatre Festival 2012), Aurealian (Brisbane Festival 2013), Synapse (2013), This Is Capital City (La Boite Indie 2013), and Fifteen (Melbourne NextWaveFestival 2012, Brisbane Festival 2012).

Poetry is Dead takes Josh’s poetry - heavily influenced by everything from hip-hop to stand up comedy - and meshes it with Mike’s vast array of projections, sounds and samples to create a kaleidoscopic audiovisual experience.

Performance

REBECCA CUNNINGHAM

13 June 2014 | 1 comment


I am an Australian researcher, project manager, curator, sound, and performance artist. I hold a Bachelor of Music, Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University and Bachelor of Creative Industries 2A Honours, Interdisciplinary from QUT and am currently undertaking a PHD in Business exploring the operation of trust in the global performance art network.

I have been involved in visualization which began during my PhD research which has extended into both my art practice and research. I am currently undertaking a life work ONE whereby I am making a bio portrait of one million people – exchanging, extract and visualizing one million persons DNA.

Further to this, I am also involved in the online visualization of the national and soon global performance art network. In 2012, I [along with exist] began the Live Art National Network Development project [an exist initiative, supported by the Australian Council for the Arts]. This project will culminate in an online web based source, www.performancemap.org mapping the National network of practitioners, venues and curators –enabling artists and curators to better connect and work together. This site will extend to the global network,and will bring together and catalogue existing archives and online sources for live artists globally.

I am the founding member of the Artist Run Initiative exist and in this capacity have curated five international festivals and one conference to date [2008 – 2013]. I have also performed locally and internationally as wellas having work in the Australian Video Art Archive [Monash University, Australia], Die Schwarze Lade [Köln,Germany], and Bristol University [UK].

Artist Website

Performance

HOW DO WE MAKE THE WORLD WORK ?

11 June 2014


The post-liberal bloc must be crazy, I can’t see a thing beyond my nose but the radical has happened and the revolution did not happen but it does not feel like the past anymore and we know that we’ve rubbed against all the stiff and the preordained and the boundaries are so broken that you can promise that Anything Can Happen and Anything Will Happen and they (the good ones, the you ones) will take it into their own hands and if it becomes Beyond Control then that’s fucking it man it’s Beyond Control.

Bio

Andrew McLellan and Kiah Reading regularly collaborate on different odd ends, and are members of Golden Solution with Michael Candy.
Andrew McLellan has relatively abandoned most of his tactile creative output in favour of answering requests from Berlin to finish his records. Kiah Reading is currently considering his relationship with the Office as he trades .PDFs and hostile conversations with his (e)mail delivery agent, all in the name of Work.

Performance

FELL

10 June 2014


In a corner of the Judith Wright Centre, a bedraggled, weary bird has made his nest.

‘Fell’ is a durational performance-installation exploring the price of selfishness, failed ambition and rejection. Each audience member becomes a close friend, invited into the previously unexplored internal life of Anthony Vian, a reclusive, brutally honest writer. Stricken by failure, he seeks to make amends, opening his life in an attempt to reach understanding with the people he has estranged. ‘Fell’ invites the audience to interact, manipulate, or simply view the disintegrating reality of Anthony’s apartment. If they wish, they may come into the depths of the nest, and face to face with the fallen man himself, sitting down at his writing desk and sharing a story of their own, adding it to his ever-growing collection of regrets.

Creatives: Regan Lynch (Performing) & Jennifer Bismire (Designing)

Artist’s Website

Performance

STARCH HEARTS

10 June 2014


Starch Hearts is a collaboration between Henry Mills and Bonnie Hart using audio, visual and kinetic stimulus in a theater of circumstance. Electronic and analogue audio signals are generated and manipulated in real time by the artists who are simultaneously immersed in a theatrical melodrama. Voice and movement, prop and installation. Using a unique blend of narrative, aesthetics and mechanisation, Starch Hearts addresses issues of fun, industry, lust, talk-back radio, dance party, confessionals and abstraction.

Performance

ZOE PORTER & FRANCESCA JAIYEOLA

9 June 2014 | 1 comment



Zoe Porter

Zoe is a Brisbane based artist and has recently been awarded a Doctor of Visual Art (Queensland College of Art, 2014). Zoe’s practice is interdisciplinary exploring primarily a drawing practice, which also extends into painting, installation, performance, sculpture, site-specific works and video. Zoe exhibits regularly in Australia and internationally.

Her work often depicts the animal-human hybrid in an attempt at crossing the boundaries between the animal and the human, real and imaginary states, chaos and order. Her performance-based works are often collaborative and merge art, theatre, sound and physical performance highlighting the artistic and creative processes involved in producing artworks. Her performance-based works have taken place in both traditional galleries and festivals including the Woodford Folk Festival (2009- 2011), The Judith Wright Centre (2012) and Current Rising (2012).

Francesca Jaiyeola

Francesca Jaiyeola is a performer whose practice includes contemporary African dance, music, circus and theatre. As a West African and contemporary dancer, Francesca’s creative direction is often derived from her mixed Nigerian-English heritage. Jaiyeola has performed as a dancer regularly in Australia and overseas as well as teaching dance in Brisbane. She has participated in a number of collaborative projects and has produced several dance performances and workshops at various festivals including the Blues and Roots Festival (2014) and Earth Frequency (2012 - 2013).

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