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Aphids (Melbourne)
Instrument artist Rosemary Joy
Video artist Peter Humble
Violin Yasutaka Hemmi (Japan)
Harp Takayo Matsumura (Japan)
Percussionists Eugene Ughetti, Matthias Schack-Arnott
Wood instrument construction Adam Stewart
Producer Thea Baumann
Founded in 1994, Aphids is a small, artist-led cultural organisation creating collaborations across artforms and borders. Based in Melbourne, Aphids undertakes cross-artform projects usually involving contemporary music, international cross-cultural exchanges and collaborations.
Arahmaiani
Raised by an Islamic scholar father and a Javanese Hindu-Buddhist mother, Arahmaiani is a key figure in the current art scene in Indonesia.
Art Doom
Arts Doom produce 'EVILLLL SHIT!!' Influenced by: Gravediggaz, D+ Grade Horror Movies, Hot Hot Heat (Scenes One Through Thirteen ONLY), Scooby Doo and Power Violence.
Cao Fei (China)
Cao Fei was born in Guangzhou, China in 1978. She earned a BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou, China (2001).
Cured Pink/Andrew McLellan
Growing up in tropical North-Queensland, Andrew McLellan began Cured Pink as an outlet for his domestic sonic experiments, made against a soundscape of rainforest insects, audible heat and the tourist industry.
Elizabeth Dunn
Elizabeth Dunn is an interdisciplinary artist whose work meanders around people to inquire about who they are, what they do and how they feel about it. Utilising video, photography, installation and performance, she often works collaboratively and looks for ways to facilitate audience interaction.
File_Error (Nicholas Mills)
File_Error juxtaposes, transcends, transforms and illuminates the absurd and the everyday through sound and media.
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.
Font featuring Tweek Bakini
Font is the brainchild of 'culture mechanic' Paul Barron, and draws from a broad palette of character costumes, kids TV, and Goodies-esque shenanigans to produce absurd short 'narratives'.
Hanzard
Hanzard, juggler extraordinaire, reminiscent of the vaudeville era, he is a natural clown, contortionist and magician without sleeves.
Jessie Hall
Jessie Hall is an artist who mostly works with illustration and words to communicate the hilarity and tragedy of human nature. She is inspired by calamity, public outbursts of hostility and animals. Recently she has begun to work collaboratively in order to produce suggestive, interactive installations.
Joe Musgrove
Joe Musgrove has been recording and performing electronic and experimental music for the past 15 years.
John von Sturmer
A long and distinguished career in Aboriginal studies and since 1994, a freelance writer-critic-artist-research consultant.
Early proponent of structuralist theory in the Australian academic scene. Widely published in the areas of Aboriginal studies, structuralist theory, art criticism. Has made a number of ethnographic films (Lockhard Festival).
Kris Keogh
Glass Corpse (DJ set): Glass Corpse is Darwin-based Kris Keogh, founder and resident DJ of Megabass, bringing you the only the filthiest dubstep/wonky/whatever.
Lionel Marchetti & Yôko Higashi
Lionel Marchetti (France, 1967) is a composer of Musique Concrète. Yôko Higashi (1974, Yokohama, Japan) is a performer, vocalist, Butoh dancer and choreographer.
post
post are Mish Grigor, Zoe Coombs Marr and Natalie Rose. A multi art form company, borrowing from theatre, dance, installation and performance art, post are passionate about creating innovative and exciting new work. post have presented pieces in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane.
Raphael Blanco
Raphael Blanco is a 76 year-old Cuban dancer and teacher, and one of the first Cuban immigrants in Queensland.
Raymond D Blanco
Raymond is of Pajinka / Wik (Cape York) Aboriginal heritage mixed with Magarem of Mer Island (TSI) on his paternal side and Erub Island (TSI) and Malay on his maternal side.
ReelDance
ReelDance is an internationally recognized arts organization supporting innovative creative practice that works across disciplinary boundaries at the cutting edge of dance, film and new media art.
Shannon O'Neill
Shannon O'Neill is an artist, academic and curator based in Sydney. Active since the early 1990s, he makes sound, music, radio, video, text, websites and installations, and has worked with amazing people on many different projects.
Snawklor (Melbourne)
Snawklor is one of the very few acts that can really use the word organic with any sense of truth. The band grew out of long running collaboration between Nathan Gray and Dylan Martorell, and has had a long, slow development into a thrilling live act that doesn't quite sound like anything else in Australia today.
tako seijin (Sam Tupou)
Samuel Tupou is a Cairns based artist with a specialty in screenprinting. Tupou's practice reflects contemporary dilemmas of cultural identity, Westernization and immigration.
Unstrumenta Orchestra
Unstrumenta Orchestra (Will Colless, Nigel Perera, & File_Error). Unstrumenta Orchestra brings together 3 of Cairns foremost sound makers.
Zane Saunders
Zane Saunders was born in Cairns in 1971, and grew up in Kuranda, Far North Queensland, Australia. He identifies with the Butchulla (Bajala) of Fraser Island, some 1500km to the south.