On Edge Contemporary Media + Performance 08

Artists

Please note artist bio's in order of calender of events.

Bonemap
Bonemap is a hybrid mesh of live art, installation and new media framed by an overarching ecological philosophy. Bonemap’s hybridisation is a rupture that renders the cracks between artistic disciplines overt, revealing fluidity where we might expect to find the static. A creative intermedia arts partnership between Russell Milledge and Rebecca Youdell, Bonemap often works in collaboration with other artists.

Russell Milledge
Milledge’s practice is focused around interdisciplinary collaborations and intercultural exchange. Russell has received awards including the first Asialink interdisciplinary residency, a Silicon Studios Training Centre scholarship in 3D animation, ANAT summer school in multimedia and multiple awards from The Australia Council New Media Arts Fund, Dance Fund and Visual Arts/Crafts Fund, Lee Foundation, Arts
Queensland, and a number of local government councils. As a principal and collaborating artist Russell has contributed to many projects including presentations at: the Adelaide Fringe and Adelaide Festival, The Performance Space and festivals Asia and the UK.

As well as many site-specific and media based projects and partnerships, Russell works extensively in the field of visual arts as an artist and curator/project director/producer. His performance work has been focused around collaborations, while Russell’s visual art practice is represented in the collections of The Queensland Art Gallery and Cairns Regional Gallery amongst others. Russell has been Deputy Director of KickArts Contemporary Arts and is currently engaged with the School of Creative Arts, James Cook University.

Rebecca Youdell
Choreographer and performer Rebecca Youdell has toured and performed work in the USA, UK, Scandinavia, Asia and Europe and received numerous awards both in Australia and overseas. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rebecca studied movement in Australia, USA and UK attending the Royal Ballet School in London, and working with the Royal Swedish Ballet Company in Stockholm.

Rebecca has diversified her practice to integrate media through collaborations with the Bureau of Meteorology and the use of medical diagnostic imaging technology, x-ray and ultrasound. Performance and movement language with/for the camera through video and photography. Multimedia web and sound based works linked with an understanding of media manipulation.

A fellowship at The Australian Choreographic Centre; ANAT’s Alchemy workshop; the first Asialink interdisciplinary residency hosted in Singapore (2001); TPS_01 (2002); and several projects from 1996 – 2008 are archived on <bonemap.com>. BFA (dance) Butler University (USA, 1992). MA (Visual Performing Arts) Charles Sturt University (Australia, 1998).

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Keith Armstrong:
Keith Armstrong specialises in collaborative, hybrid works with an emphasis on performance and site specific installation. He currently works in Brisbane, Australia as a creative director, media designer and system integrator within multidisciplinary teams.

Keith is currently the Queensland editor for the national arts newspaper Realtime and a member of the QUT Creative Industries Media-Architecture Integration Advisory Panel to Queensland Government and Hassell Partners Architects.

Charlotte Vincent:
Charlotte Vincent is Artistic Director of the Vincent Dance Theatre and to date, she has conceived and directed all of VDT's live and film works. She is known for creating emotionally bold and physically demanding work which challenges conventional expectations of what dance can be, combining physical theatre, music and song.

Charlotte has led professional development workshops in the UK , Switzerland , Spain , Taiwan and Austria. She has also led physical theatre workshops with male and female offenders in more than 30 prisons across the UK , and has choreographed and devised community projects and major participation projects for VDT and others. Working with digital video technologists Charlotte delivered DANCE THE NET, a series of training workshops exploring the interface between dance and digital technology.

As a choreographer, Charlotte Vincent has undertaken many commissions throughout the world and has been nominated for several national and international awards including the Arts Fellowship Award for Choreography, Paul Hamlyn Award for Choreography, Jerwood Award for Young Choreographers, The Place Dance on Screen Production Award and Pepinieres Europeennes Pour Jeunes Artistes.

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Robin Fox (Melb):
Robin is a Melbourne based sound and visual artist currently working with live digital media in improvised, composed and installation settings. He creates audio-visual works for the cathode ray oscilloscope and audio controlled laser system.

Live audiovisual performances have taken place across Europe including appearances at the Netmage Festival (Bologna); Wien Modern Festival (Vienna); Noise and Glamour Festival (Moscow) and Transacoustic Festival (Auckland). This work, in constant development, is currently being realised with a high-powered, audio controlled laser system with recent performances at the Institute for Modern Art (Brisbane); NIME06 (Paris); Wellington International Jazz Festival (New Zealand); Totally Huge New Music Festival (Perth); October Contemporary Festival (Hong Kong).

A major European tour took place in May/June 2007 with laser based presentations at Musique Action Festival (Nancy, France); VENN Festival (Bristol, UK); Music Genera Festival (Szczesin, Poland) and Neia Musik Festival (Mulhouse, France) among numerous other appearances. His recent installation work Volta has featured at the RoslynOxley9 Gallery and Orange Regional Art Gallery in 2006 and in 2007 featured at the Asian Art Biennale (Tapei).

Zane Saunders
Coming from a very strong visual arts background, Zane continues exploring and investigating new visual expression. Over the past three years, Zane has developed a very deep and unique approach to contemporary dance/performance, drawing from his indigenous cultural heritage, and from the many experiences of contemporary society.

Importantly, this new work is placed in many diverse settings and contexts, each work site specific, and both visually stunning and challenging, for audiences. "Performance is a vehicle for the spirit to connect to audience": modern devices/costume are utilized to convey the message; site specific work devised to site location; use of formal and informal spaces, emphasis on the absurdity of contemporary 'western' norms.

Zane also has an ongoing collaboration with sound and media artist File_Error, and this partnership allows Zane to explore video, media and performance in a more defined context. In 2007, the 2 artists collaborated and self-produced the installation, performance and media event, "Being A Medium" over 3 nights at the JUTE Theatre in Cairns.

Daniel Wallwork
Daniel is a Cairns based artist, whose practise extends on his trade skills as a professional spray-painter. His works playfully explore and celebrate Australia’s iconic automotive culture, its suburban roots and various sub-cultures.

Wallwork is an emerging curator, legal graffiti artist, graphic designer, youth-arts worker and is one of the founders and current Director of the ARI (Artist Run Initiative), The Upholstery Contemporary Arts Group. Wallwork currently has works touring nationally with the IMA (Institute of Modern Art - Brisbane) in Supercharged and his recent solo show, HOON, is currently on tour throughout QLD with the Queensland Arts Council.

Steve Barton
Steve hails from the UK, Canada and Australia, with his formative years spent in Nigeria and Jamaica. His interests see him as performer, composer, sound and lighting designer, staging technician and costume
construction electrician. Steve has worked on numerous productions spanning two continents. Productions include ‘Pendulous Urge’, ‘Listening to Skin’, ‘The Wild Edge’ and a multitude of others.

Currently Steve works across a variety of situations, venues and organizations including JUTE, KickArts, Bonemap, Cairns Civic Theatre, among others. Since performing live in the 70’s and 80’s, Steve has been focusing on ‘musical doodles’ and working on experimental layering of sounds from the guitar to provide a variety of 3D audio backdrops, which can be added to and interacted with by other artists.

Jess Jones
Jess Jones is a contemporary performer/maker, interested in collaborative processes and working across art forms.

Locally, Jess has performed with Bonemap in Brink (2005), Future Perfect (2006) and in Live Art in Public Spaces (2006)as part of the OnEdge festival, Cairns; and independently at the See Hear Now festival (2006, 2007), Townsville. Jess has a BCA – Dance (Deakin Uni, Melbourne), where she encountered a number of approaches to moving and performance.

Currently Jess teaches contemporary dance on the Far North Queensland Tablelands, and is producing a youth-zine publication soon to be released.

Simon Tait
Simon is an installation, film and animation artist. Simon has exhibited in Croatia, Japan and throughout Australia. An activist at heart, Simon’s practice spans the visual and performance arena, and he has found himself in an eclectic array of roles from artist to arborist, forger to fisherman, technician to teacher.

He has been a Director of his own art space, 'The Blue Room' over a period of years, a founding member of 'The Upholstery', an ARI in Cairns and has made several short films. Simon has a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Uni of S.A. and has collaborated with an abundant list of artists across the gamut of artistic
inclines, influences and genres. Simon is currently working to fund his latest short film, a laconic view of a discrete euthanasia tour company, and uses performance as his release from this nearly brain dead world of ours.

File_Error
File_Error is another discreet face of Cairns based artist/producer Nicholas Mills.

Working across the fields of sound art and digital screen/media, File_Error draws from a wide range or source material and influences from field and urban recordings, found sound and vision to samples and electronics. Often combined with text, recent new works include ‘shadows’ and ‘mary river documenta’, drawing from both lo-fi and high end screen vision, with found sound/field recordings, electronics and text.

File_Error has performed as part of Liquid Architecture, On Edge, various one-off events, and has ongoing collaborations with inter-media group Bonemap, and indigenous performance artist Zane Saunders.

File_Error juxtaposes, transcends, transforms and illuminates the absurd and the everyday through sound and media.

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toy.bizarre (France)
Cédric Peyronnet (aka toy.bizarre / ingeos) is a sound artist working since the ’90 around phonography (Field recordings, “sound hunting”…), soundscapes, using the principles of concrete, acousmatic, electroacoustic music.

His work, whose main theme is the exploration of places by sound recording, listening and sound sculpting, take form of compositions and sound pieces (CD, Vinyl ... more than forty references published since the ‘90), concerts, sound screenings and sound installations.

His works on soundscapes led him to practice “sound mapping” and implement daily the principles of acoustic ecology. On that part, he is also working from time to time in schools, “teaching” kids (Well, and older…) about our “sound environment” and the importance of the ear.

Jacques Soddell (Vic)
Jacques is a former microbiologist who has graduated to experimental music/sound art and video. He produces sounds (and video) for theatre, dance, live performance and installation, and also with fourcast and punctum. Until recently he presented 'possible musics', an experimental music radio program on a local community radio station.

He also organises "Undue Noise", a regular evening of experimental/electronic music in Bendigo. With his wife, fran, he runs an experimental music/multimedia label, Cajid Media.

Tom Hall
Emerging through the ranks Tom Hall had been working tirelessly at carving out a niche for himself in recent times working as a sound composer, photographer and performer. Hall's unorthodox approach to sound and vision has allowed his work to flourish, choosing to apply visual rules to ways of working with sound, using it like a moldable medium such as clay, rather than something musical.

Exploring themes of the 'everyday' and finding beauty in the peripherals, Hall uses a series of approaches that involve organic processing, instrument manipulation, hybrid composition and video manipulation using both analogue and digital methods in both his studio compositions and live performances.

Hall has contributed and implemented live A/V performances, Installations and Exhibitions at venues and art spaces Nationally and Internationally. These include the completion of an exploratory sound album, Fluere, based on Brisbane's iconic Story Bridge that captured National and International recognition. He has exhibited at The State Library of Queensland, presented live performances at the Brisbane Powerhouse sound festival Open Frame, major residency at The Perth International Arts Festival 2008 and exhibited and toured abroad in Japan and Germany.

In recent times Hall has worked and played along side artists such as Steinbruchel, Tim Hecker, Jason Khan, Lawrence English, Takashi Kojima, Haco, Samm Bennet and Skist.

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Carmine Getite –Producer
Born on a union of a wild & stormy; fiery & passionate night, this troubadour of armour, reveller of masks, Pompoir of risky, raunchy, saucy sass, has sent forth her sirens song and called forth the wickedly wanton. Pan himself doth druel…….

ON EDGE she ecstatically offers a tantalizing spellbind experience of Burlesque-launching cabaret as a tour de force.

Vulvaliscious:
Exotic temptress, leaves her abode high in the alps every spring after spending long winters snowed in with her adoring 100 husbands. As they rest and rec
Recuperate, Vulvaliscious; as she is known in the West; (her name in the old world is El Tseguil) is able to travel through the melting snows to bring her unique delights to an ever expanding audience of devotees.

With only one in every 100 of her clan being female, Vulvaliscious is worshipped by all; but only the select are chosen to attend to her needs. Her hedonistic persona knows no limits and she freely celebrates the archetypal female power with dignity and timeless grace.

Diverse Dance:
Performers involved - Daniele Baccala, Liza Parker, Tia Garnett, Joshua Percival, Kym Stone and Mark Edwards. The grotesque having to have their sexual needs met but being relegated to carnival sideshow freak status by normal society (who ever imagines the old/ugly/fat etc. having sex?).

Dame Jezebel Rampage:
Damned for services to mankind. Jezebel - the fornicatress; geisha, hussy, courtesan, whore; its good, its funny and the money's lovely.
"Its my privilege, my duty, and, my god, my pleasure, to open the doors to the House of Rampage and offer all you good people my learn-ed and technical expertise in the surge and endorphonic deluge of this most primal source of happiness. Always, at your service."

Sophia Scarlett:
Sophia fell in love with dance and theatre at a very young age. She studied jazz and classical ballet as a child, and then moved on to theatre, circus and other performance work. She has taught and performed dance for over fourteen years, studied trapeze, burlesque, belly-dance, cancan, cabaret, contemporary and pole dance. She now runs her own pole dance school, Pole Play Studios and has a continuing career in dance and performance. She performs both individually and with the Sassy Catz Dance Theatre Performance Troupe and the Polesque Dance Troupe.

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Samuel James (Syd)
Samuel is an independent video artist with a film and architecture background. In the last ten years he has designed and created projections for over 150 performances in Australia.

He has had several nominations for his dance films in the Reeldance Festival of Dance on Screen and the Australian Dance Awards and has screened internationally. In 2006 he won Best Australian Dance film for Nun’s Night Out (choreographer Julie-Anne Long) at the Australian Dance Awards as well as being screened in other dance film festivals such as Cinedans Amsterdam.

As a new media artist he has initiated three independent projects, Invisible Cities (2005), Remixing the Aftermath (2003) and Space 1999: Cinema
Simulacra (1999), being supported primarily by the Australia Council New Media Fund and the Performance Space, Sydney.

Current Australia Council Inter-Arts grants include two collaborations; Miss and Miss Elder with Julie-Anne Long and Immersion Night with Gail Priest. At the Sydney Opera House in 2006 he worked with Narelle Benjamin and the Sydney Dance Company on both The Director’s Cut and the film Pod.

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Tess De Quincey (Syd)
Tess De Quincey is a choreographer and dancer who has worked extensively in Europe, Japan and Australia as a performer, teacher and director. Based in Japan from 1985 until 1991, she was a dancer with Min Tanaka and his Mai-Juku Performance Co for 6 years which has provided the strongest influence on her performance work which is based in the Body Weather philosophy and methodology - www.bodyweather.net - founded by Min and his company.

From 1988 her solo productions have toured extensively in Europe and Australia and in 2000 she formed performance network De Quincey Co (www.DeQuinceyCo.net) which has developed a series of new dance-performance works. She is director of the Triple Alice Forum & Laboratories www.triplealice.net which brings together cross-cultural interdisciplinary practices of artists, scientists and thinkers in relation to the Central Desert of Australia.

Her performance teaching and work in different terrains - from city to desert - around the world has engendered a series of works concerned with ‘inhabitation’ and the ‘nature of place’. Besides her improvisational work with musicians and visual artists, her main emphasis is on intercultural, site-specific and durational works.

Jim Denley (Syd)
Jim studied flute at the NSW Conservatorium with Peter Richardson, and in 1983 with shakuhachi master Yamaguchi Goro in Tokyo. Since the early 1980s he has been performing regularly throughout Australia and abroad both as an independent musician as well as with text/music group Machine for Making Sense which he co-founded in 1989.

They have performed extensively throughout Australia, Europe and the US. In 1999 they performed and created an installation for the opening of the Sydney Opera House Studio in collaboration with visual artist Joan Grounds, performing there again in 2000 and in 2003. Besides producing numerous CDs, Jim has composed sound works for radio over the last 14 years, most notably Collaborations, his radio feature commissioned by the ABC which won the Prix Italia in 1989.

He has also recorded for BBC Radio 3 and for Germany's WDR. Derek Bailey included a paragraph of Jim’s writing about solo improvisation in a revised version of his classic text “Improvisation” published by the British Library. Jim has worked with a range of different groups, most notably The Relative Band, Mind Body Split, Lines, Chris Burn Ensemble, Embers and Derek Bailey’s Company www.newmusicnetwork.com.au/machine.

He has played throughout Australia, Europe and the US with many musicians and dancers. Jim was recently awarded a Fellowship by the Australia Council for 2006-07.

Amanda Stewart (Syd)
Amanada is a poet, writer and vocalist. She has created a variety of texts, performances, film and radio works in Australia, Japan, the US and Europe. From 1983 to 1993 she worked full time as a radio producer at the ABC in Sydney and In 1990, with Nicolette Freeman, co-wrote and directed the award winning film, Eclipse of the Man Made Sun.

In 1989 she co-founded the Australian ensemble, Machine For Making Sense as well as the Netherlands trio, Allos in 1995. As a poet and soloist she has performed in a diversity of festivals including, recently, Sonorities (Montpellier) Donaueschingen Musiktage, Musica Viva (Munich), Proposta (Barcelona) and Logos (Gent).

Her Book and CD set of selected poems, I/T, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and won the Anne Elder Poetry Prize in 1999. In 2003 she was elected a fellow of Stiftung Kulturfonds and was curator of sound poetry for the Berlin Poetry Festival.

Samuel James (Syd)
Samuel is an independent video artist with a film and architecture background. In the last ten years he has designed and created projections for over 150 performances in Australia.

As a new media artist he has initiated three independent projects, Invisible Cities (2005), Remixing the Aftermath (2003) and Space 1999: Cinema Simulacra (1999), being supported primarily by the Australia Council New Media Fund and the Performance Space, Sydney.

Also in 2006 he was a participant in two Critical Path workshops with leading Belgian dance film directors Wim Vanderkeybus and Thierry de Mey. His next work is developing a new project with Performance Space "In or with Wind" in which performers improvise live to videos created by their collaborators. www.shimmerpixel.blogspot.com

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File_Error
File_Error is another discreet face of Cairns based artist/producer Nicholas Mills.

Often combined with text, recent new works include ‘shadows’ and ‘mary river documenta’, drawing from both lo-fi and high end screen vision, with found sound/field recordings, electronics and text.

File_Error juxtaposes, transcends, transforms and illuminates the absurd and the everyday through sound and media.

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