CHAMBER MADE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director of Independent Company Fraught Outfit
Adena Jacobs is the artistic director of independent company Fraught Outfit. In 2014-15 she was Resident Director at Belvoir, and in 2012 she was Female Director in Residence at Malthouse Theatre. Adena has presented her work internationally at the ENO in London and Tokyo Festival. In March 2021, she will premiere her production of Die Troerinnen (Trojan Women) at Vienna's Burgtheatre.
Alex Walker is a youth arts practitioner making live art with a cross-section of young people at the point where the spheres of children, arts, culture, and politics intersect. Alex works across contexts, heavily invested in carving out a place for the voice and position of the young person to have an impact on their environment and community.
Alex has held key artistic roles at St Martins Youth Arts Centre (2012-2015), Outback Theatre for Young People (2010-2012) and Australian Theatre for Young People (2007-2009). In her roles to date, she has prepared young people to perform and participate as part of Melbourne Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival, The Wheeler Centre, Arts Centre Melbourne, NGV, MPavilion, State Library Victoria, Testing Grounds, ArtsHouse, Theatreworks, Dark Mofo, Ten Days on the Island, Castlemaine Festival and Melbourne Town Hall. She has presented at State, National and International conferences dedicated to young people and the arts.
In 2016 Alex founded House of Muchness (HoM). Muchness is your you-ness, your oomph, your grit and substance, your core character, your spark, your bestness, the fullest version of you. House of Muchness is a centre for creativity with young people. Workshops and projects for 5 to 17 year olds happen within an inclusive culture of creative risk-taking and artistic experimentation. Arts processes are used to arrive at new material which reveals the contemporary condition of young people and their complex relationship with the world. HoM is an environment where young people can belong to a collective and build social relatedness, artistic expression and find their creative kin.
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Sound Artist & Musician
Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. Through her practice Alex attempts to reimagine the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. Her aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions.
Amelia is a lighting designer based in Melbourne, whose practice encompasses theatre, dance, television and events. Her recent designs have been presented at Melbourne Theatre Company, Belvoir St Theatre, Malthouse Theatre and Chunky Move. Her festival work has been presented at Next Wave Festival, Dance Massive, Castlemaine Festival, Brisbane Festival and Darwin Festival, Dark MOFO and has been presented in China, UK and Europe.
Amelia's work has been recognised with three Green Room Awards. Amelia is an Australia Council ArtStart and JUMP Mentorship recipient, and a past participant in The Malthouse Besen Family Artist Program and The Melbourne Theatre Company's inaugural Women in Theatre Program. Amelia is also a member of The New Working Group.
Amos Gebhardt is Guest Curator for the 2021 iteration of Chamber Made's Hi-Viz working alongside Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekw e and Aviva Endean.
Gebhardt brings a cinematic force to large scale, moving image installations and photography, collaborating with performers, choreographers and musicians. Exploring intersections between culture, nature and the body, Gebhardt animates both human and non-human narratives in their study of the brutal, ephemeral and interdependent nature of being.
Gebhardt was the recipient of the inaugural Adelaide Studios Artist Residency (2019), presented by the South Australian Film Corporation. The resulting moving image work Small acts of resistance premiered at Samstag Museum of Art and the Adelaide Film Festival in 2020. Family portrait, from the related photography series, was a 2020 Bowness Photography Prize finalist.
Singapore based Lighting designer Andy Lim has worked extensively in and outside of Singapore designing for theatre, dance, art installation and film.
His work has been seen in major performing arts festivals both locally and internationally, including Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay and Singapore Arts Festival (Singapore), Kunsten Festival Des Arts (Brussels), Theatre Der Welt (Germany), 54th Venice Biennale (Venice), Festival/Tokyo, and Mori Arts Museum (Japan), SIDance (Korea).
Andy's work ranges from drama, dance, music and film; from intimate black box performances to large theatre mainstages; from site-specific installations to unconventional outdoor stagings. He has designed for choreographers, directors and artists such as Emmanuèle Phuon, Edwaard Liang, Xing Liang, Eko Supriyanto, Lim Fei Shen, Dr Caren Carino, Jamie Redfern, Ong Keng Sen, Natalie Hennedige, Annemarie Prins, Nikolai Foster, and Ho Tzu Nyen.
Known for his minimalistic approach, visual style, and for its dramaturgical integration with the source material, his approach to design concepts has always come from a study and sympathy to the past history, present and future of the individuality of every project, always striving to create an emotion that is abstract yet moving to those experiencing it.
Earlier in his career, Andy was the pioneering batch of senior technicians with the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore. He was part of the lighting department for seven years, during which he worked on a magnitude of productions ranging from mid to large-scale production, such as touring musicals - My Fair Lady, iLa galigo by Robert Wilson. He was later chosen to tour Europe with the company. Andy was also often appointed as Lighting coordinator for various indoor and outdoor events within the arts centre.
Job Titles:
- Designer & Artist
- Designer, Artist and Creative Producer
Anna Tregloan is a multi-award winning designer, artist and creative producer who collaborates on and creates work for major performing arts companies, major Australian festivals and an array of smaller and independent companies, galleries and artists. She has an extensive history in contemporary theatre and dance, physical theatre, opera, live-art and immersive installations. She has a Masters in Animateuring from VCA, University of Melbourne.
In the last eighteen months she has designed a major exhibitions for Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney; Curated and designed the Australian Exhibition for the Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Space and Design; designed staging and costumes for a Korean/ Australian physical theatre collaboration (presented in both countries); worked with Indonesian and Australian puppet companies to devise an immersive installation; designed the inaugral production for Western Sydney's new theatre company and continued to develop and present the multi-part installation project (‘The Ghost Project') in regional and urban Australia, South East Asia and Europe.
Anneli Björåsen is a Victorian based Swedish-Australian performer and researcher. She is soon to complete a doctorate in English Literature and will shortly be commencing a Masters in Teaching.
She is a performing member and creative of Gold Satino and has appeared in Tumor Kinder (La Trobe University), Oubliette (Kilcunda) and Suburbia (Anywhere Festival / 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival - Evolution Award Winner). In 2011 she was nominated for a Green Room Award for her performance in Sarajevo Suite (directed by Bagryana Popov for La Mama), which was selected for La Mama Mobile and completed a regional tour of Victoria in 2012. In 2013 she joined the Chamber Made Opera ensemble as a performer in Turbulence and partook in the filmatization of the production in 2015 for the eBook LIGE, which was followed by a hybrid performance at the Festival of Performing Arts in 2016.
Anneli is a soprano with the Swedish Choir in Melbourne, and has worked as one of the managers of the Girls on Film Festival since 2015.
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh is a Taiwanese-Australian composer working in new music. Her music has been presented internationally at Metropolis New Music Festival, Tectonics Festival, ISCM World Music Days, International Rostrum of Composers, Pittsburgh Festival of New Music, Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music, and Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music. She has been commissioned by the Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, ELISION Ensemble, Red Fish Blue Fish, and Royaumont Foundation. Annie gained her bachelor and master degrees from the University of Melbourne and doctorate degree from the University of California, San Diego. She is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor of Music at Carnegie Mellon University.
Anthony Pateras is a composer, pianist and electro-acoustic musician. His work explores sound and its mutation through varying constellations of notation, improvisation, electronic and acoustic materials. He has written over 50 works that discover uncommon acoustic and physical phenomena performed worldwide by soloists and symphony orchestras. His main collaborators currently include Natasha Anderson, Anthony Burr, Brett Dean, Sabina Maselli, Jérôme Noetinger, Mike Patton, Scott Tinkler, Valerio Tricoli and Erkki Veltheim. He has managed and toured his own bands since the late 1990s and runs the Immediata label.
Aviva Endean is an artist dedicated to fostering a deep engagement with sound and music, with the hope that attentive listening can connect people with each other and their environment. Trained as a clarinetist, she works as a composer, clarinettist, improviser, curator and performance-maker, and creates unusual, spatially engaged, and participatory contexts for listening.
Recent works include creating the sound score for ‘Token Armies' by Chunky Move (winner of a Greenroom award for best sound for dance 2020), releasing her debut solo album ‘cinder : ember : ashes' (which became a finalist for the Melbourne Prize for music 2019) and working as Associate Artist with The Australian Art Orchestra as the inaugural recipient of the Pathfinders Music Leadership position. In 2021 Aviva is artist in residence at the Peggy Glanville Hicks composer's house.
Aviva was Guest Curator for the 2021 iteration of Chamber Made's Hi-Viz Practice Exchange working alongside Amos Gebhardt and Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe.
Aviva Endean, Carolyn Connors and Jenny Barnes, 'Little Operations with Aviva Endean', Footscray Community Arts, 2015. Photo credit: Pier Carthew
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Creative Audio Producer and Practice - Based Researcher
Ben Grant is a performer, writer, sound designer, composer and dramaturge. Ben is currently an actor/author in Quebecois company Ex Machina's Playing Cards: Hearts directed by Robert Lepage. Ben has performed in many independent productions, most recently ‘The Eradication Of Schizophrenia' In Western Lapland by British company Ridiculusmus, as well as for Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare Company, La Mama and Radio National.
Ben has also created sound designs and music for Malthouse, Belvoir Street Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare Company, Radio National, Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Victorian Arts Centre, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, and La Mama, among others.
In 2012 Ben won a Green Room Award (Best Male Performance in Melbourne Independent Theatre) for performing Alfie in Angus Cerini's Save For Crying at La Mama, and was also nominated for Best Sound Design for M.T.C's A Behanding in Spokane. Ben's solo show The Shrink and Swell of Knots was most recently part of the 2014 Brisbane Festival.
Biddy Connor has composed, arranged and performed for a diverse range of projects including film, television, theatre, large-scale community events and games.
Biddy is the Artistic Director and viola player for The Letter String Quartet (TLSQ). In 2020 TLSQ released their first album, All the Stories, featuring Marita Dyson (The Orbweavers). In March 2018, TLSQ developed a show for the Festival of Live Art, Art House, about the phenomenon of ASMR. tlsq x asmr was nominated for a Green Room Award in the category of Contemporary Sound Performance. In August 2018, TLSQ performed with Gang of Youths on MTV unplugged Australia, featuring string and horn arrangements by Biddy. In April 2021, TLSQ will present a third and final instalment of their Nicholas Building project, all that you hear is all that is heard.
Biddy has been a finalist in The Melbourne Music Prize Outstanding Musicians Award.
Biddy is regularly called upon as a session violist, singer and musical saw player. She has worked with Spiritualized (with The Australian Art Orchestra as part of Supersense Festival 2017), Winged Victory for The Sullen (USA), Jherek Bischoff (USA), Jen Cloher, Thelma Plum, Holy Holy, Adalita, Evelyn Ida Morris and John Cale.
In 2019, Biddy performed in the Jon Rose show, The Violin Generation, at the Substation. In 2021, she joined the MESS synthesizer orchestra for their inaugural performance at the Myer Music Bowl. Biddy has also presented work in the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Castlemaine State Festival and the Melbourne Jazz Festival.
Biddy is currently working on a development with Richard J Frankland, to be presented at the Darebin Arts Speakeasy in October 2021. She has also been commissioned to write a piece for baroque ensemble, Van Diemen's Band, in collaboration with filmmaker Hanna Chetwin.
Biddy is the 2021 Orange House by the Sea Resident Artist. She also featured with Steph O'Hara and Lizzy Welsh in the 2019 Little Operations.
Bosco Shaw works primarily as a Lighting and Set Designer. His interest is in work that involves bodies and movement, how light feeds and influences the performing space and collaborations that propose alternate light sources and means. In 2016 he co-founded ADDITIVE, a collaborative lighting design company. He is also the recipient of 3 Green Room awards for visual design.
Carla Zimbler bends light across architecture and soaks sculptural forms in vivid textures as a live performative experience. Her installations explore fluidity to shift perspective and redefine spatial, spiritual and emotional boundaries. Acting as conduit and gateway to the otherworldly and the afterlife, Carla offers audiences multimodal devices to examine ephemerality and extrasensory perception. Utilising experimental techniques to explore phenomena, bodies are drawn into immersive spaces where sound-responsive visuals expand, burst and dissolve. The intimate, experiential world-building elements of her practice ebb and flow between the familiar and uncanny, navigating digitally modified environments in a lucid dream-like state. Carla's visual work and installation practice has been featured at Sydney Opera House, National Gallery of Australia, Arts House, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIVID Sydney, ACMI, Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival, Distortion Ø and Phoenix Central Park.
Carla is our 2024 Little Operations artist and, along with performance artist Megan Payne, collaborated with Sui Zhen, the recipient of our 2020 Hi-Viz Short Work Commission.
Job Titles:
- Finance Officer / Artist Advisory Group
Carolyn Connors is a Melbourne based vocalist, composer, pianist, and accordionist. She creates new works in the fields of contemporary music and theatre.
In 2015 Carolyn composed and performed new works for Liquid Architecture, ABC radio's Sound Proof, and The Big West Festival; she travelled to Chengdu for the development of new work In a Chengdu Teahouse; performances included SoundOut festival, and works by Aviva Endean for Chamber Made Opera, and Andrea Keeble for the Slow Music Festival. Carolyn was awarded the 2015 Age Melbourne Music Award for Avant Garde and Experimental music.
Carolyn's vocal work expands the possibilities of the acoustic voice. The works with preparations extend the voice (What comes after love, 2015; Sonatas for Voice and Objects, 2010; Mirabilia, 1992;). The theatre works are designed for listening to: meaning and navigation are embedded in the sound rather than in text or visual cues (Material Mouth, 2007; Nocturne, 2010).
Carolyn's work in ensemble settings include Hammers Lake, a trio with cellist Judith Hamann which is informed by new classical, avant-garde, and improvisation practices. As a collaborator she has made new work with many companies including Chamber Made Opera, JOLT, Quiver New Music Ensemble, and Elision; and with many artists including Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, David Chesworth, Cynthia Troupe, David Tolley, Stevie Wishart, Warren Burt, and Jill Orr. She regularly creates real-time compositions with local and international musicians in improvisation settings.
Carolyn is equally active in theatre performance. She is the lead in Still Awake Still (2011- ). Companies she has performed with include Finucane and Smith (Carnival of Mysteries, Gotharama) and Perilous Productions (Golden Valley, The Chapel Perilous).
Carolyn has taught at Victoria University, NMIT, the VCA, and with private students; was a voice and comedy trainer for the Australian Clown Doctors; has mentored through the Arts Victoria mentoring program; has been musical director with DVA, Perilous Productions and Pocketfool; and regularly appears as a guest presenter.
Carolyn was a presenter at Hi-Viz 2019
Cat Hope is a composer, musician and researcher. Her music is conceptually driven, using mostly graphic scores, acoustic /electronic combinations and new score reading technologies, often featuring aleatoric elements, drone, noise, glissandi and an ongoing fascination with low frequency sound. In 2013 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to develop her work, as well as Civitella Ranieri (Italy) and Visby International Composers residency (Sweden) fellowships, and has been discussed in books such as Sonic Writing (Magnusson, 2019), Loading the Silence (Kouvaris, 2013), Women of Note (Appleby, 2012), Sounding Postmodernism (Bennett, 2011) as well as periodicals such as Gramaphone, The Wire, Limelight and Neu Zeitschrift Fur Musik Shaft. Her works have been recorded for Australian, German and Austrian national radio, and her work has been awarded a range of prizes including the APRA|AMC Award for Excellence in Experimental Music in 2011, 2014 and the Peggy Glanville Hicks, Civitella and Visby residencies. In 2019 she premiered her first opera, Speechless, at the Perth Festival, which she also directed. She has founded a number of groups, most recently Decibel new music ensemble, noise improv duos Candied Limbs, HzHzHz, Super Luminum as well as multi bass projects Abe Sada and Australian Bass Orchestra. She has also founded and written pop songs for Gata Negra (1999-2006) and has an active solo bass noise practice, which has seen her collaborate with KK Null, Whitehouse, Acid Mother Temple, Merzbow and many more. She maintains an active profile as a flute performer, recently premiering a new work written for her on alto flute by French composer Eliane Radigue (OCCAM XXVI, 2018).
Job Titles:
- Director
- Artistic Associate
Cathy Hunt is a director and dramaturg, who trained at the VCA. There she directed Crave and held a Creative Graduate Scholarship. Cathy's arts practice involves collaborating with fellow theatre-makers to make work extending beyond current assumptions of what theatre is or could be. Her work explores heightened states through sound and music.
Work includes: Her Father's Daughter - a version of Hedda Gabler, Hotel Now in Prahran Council Chambers, May 2018, Les Mamelles de Tiresias for Lyric at Chapel off Chapel in April 2018, Love/Chamberlai n, Ralph Indie, Ainslie & Gorman, 2017 and The Super Queer Murderess Show, Melbourne Fringe 2017, Arts House which she co-created with Luisa Hastings Edge & Nate Gilkes.
Cathy directed Tiny Remarkable Bramble, Invisible Circus 2016, KXT and Life Without Me, Illuminate, Seymour Centre. She was dramaturg / outside eye on Shannon Loughnane's The One, transforming a Brunswick croquet club into a Minnesota log cabin for Melbourne Fringe 2016. In 2015, she directed site-specific play Steppe, Melbourne Fringe, Newport railyards and co-devised Kafka Dances, Space Lab, Prague Quadrennial. With Bec Allen Cathy formed independent theatre company The Impending Room to direct Judith in 2011 and developed new work Dangerous Lenses, 2012, touring it to The Substation for Melbourne Fringe 2013. She held a six-month Dramaturgy Mentorship with Playwriting Australia / MTC in 2015 and was a PWA Dramaturgy intern in 2012.
Cathy completed a directors' attachment on Fraught Outfit's Book of Exodus Part 2 with Adena Jacobs and assistant directed for Tanya Gerstle on Optic Nerve's The Mill on the Floss, both at Theatreworks. For La Mama she has been a teaching artist creating devised works (Back to the Future & Who's the Best?) with migrants and refugees through AMES. She is a Theatre Works Associate Artist on Dybbuks, directed by Samara Hersch for Chamber Made.
Cheryl Ong (Singapore) is a percussionist who is active in music performance and education and regularly performs with avant rock group, The Observatory. Though classically trained, Cheryl consistently struggles with the fact that classical music can be divisive and limited to its roles. Tired of being a mere technician, Cheryl has gone on to explore improvisational and experimental practices in recent years, hunting down new ideas and sounds.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director & Theatre Maker
- Hong Kong - Australian Director
Ching Ching Ho is a Hong Kong-Australian director and theatre maker currently living and working in Melbourne. She has curated and directed "Approximate Translation" for Malthouse Theatre in May 2016 as part of her ongoing investigation into the multiplication of languages in performance making. She has worked with Union House Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, National Theatre of China, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Chamber Made Opera.
Ching Ching initiated Trans Collective in 2013 for which the TRANS # Series has created and produced two hybrid multilingual performances for Mudfest and the Hong Kong People's Fringe Festival. Her solo site - specific performance has been part of Melaka Art and Performance Festival and Mapping Melbourne. In 2015, Ching Ching has co-created "7412 Kilometres of Relations" with Natasha Phillips for Big West Festival. Her other stage credits include "The Sovereign Wife" (Sisters Grimm/MTC NEON 2013) and "Grave" (Dewey Dell/Next Wave 2012).
Ching Ching is part of the Women Director's Program at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2015. She is currently a member of the New Working Group, and sits on the judging panel for the Green Room Association Awards' Contemporary and Experimental Performance Panel.
Job Titles:
- Digital Artist & Producer
Christopher Lewis is a Melbourne based composer, percussionist with an interest in the numerous textural possibilities of the drum kit and beyond. His work encompasses soundtracks for physical theatre, and a diverse range of musical collaborations from free improvisation to the reimagining of Australian folk songs.
His recent composition credits include "If These Walls Could Talk" by Dislocate Physical Theatre, performed at Melbourne International Festival of Arts, 2014,"The Republic of Trees" (Castlemaine State Festival 2013), "The Woolgatherer" (La Mama Oct 2013). He was the musical director of Circus Oz from 1998-2002 and again from 2009-2010. He has composed & performed for many other companies including Chamber Made Opera, Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Legs on the Wall, NICA & Dislocate.
Christopher performs regularly as a drummer, percussionist & vocalist with post modern folksters, Bush Gothic; original jazz/contemporary music ensembles SHOL, Bohjass , Slipper, Sandwich Jesus ; and mambo/son inspired Los Cojones . With the above he has played at numerous venues and festivals such as MONA FOMA, Port Fairy, Falls, Bennett's Lane.
Cobie is an interdisciplinary artist working across forms including dance, video, sound and installation. Her interest lies primarily in the integration of forms and creating methodologies that utilise and mash up the creative languages at hand. Her work has been presented locally and abroad and has often stemmed from residencies at places such as Bundanon, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, Dancehouse, Critical Path, Les Baines Connective and Cultuurcentrum Berchem.
Cynthia's writing for performance is often concerned with the inherent musicality of the sounds of ordinary life-including consumer technologies-and with the allusive richness of fragments, magnification, repetition. This richness can so quickly expose the fragility of conventional meanings, pointing past the words themselves. Cynthia's texts have been performed in concert, installation and theatre settings. She was librettist for Turbulence, or ‘the underlying forces usually hidden', with music by Juliana Hodkinson. Turbulence was first performed as part of the 2013 Chamber Made Opera Living Room Opera series and Melbourne Fringe, presented by Chamber Made Opera and New Music Network. Cynthia was also librettist for Dwelling Structure: An Opera in 8 Time-Use Episodes, created with sound artists and composers Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey as part of the 2011 Chamber Made Opera Living Room Opera series. Care Instructions: Script for Single or Multiple Voice (published as a limited edition by Aphids in 2009), and And When They Were Good, part of the Aphids production A Quarreling Pair: A Triptych of Small Puppet Plays, are perhaps Cynthia's best-known works for theatre.
Daniel Schlusser has directed ground-breaking theatre productions in Australia and internationally and is known as a restlessly experimental artist of the stage. He is one of Australia's most influential directors and an acclaimed performer, writer, choreographer and dramaturg.
Job Titles:
- Community Development Worker
- Community Development Worker & Performance Maker
- Member With Rawcus Theatre
Danielle von der Borch is a community development worker, arts practitioner, performer and teacher/facilitator with an interest in embodied practices. Graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts drama school, Grad. Dip. movement and dance Melbourne University, and MA from MIECAT Institute in experiential and creative art therapy. She has 20+ years of experience and her commitment is to an inclusive practise in both art and community, and her work is in communities with diverse backgrounds.
‘My attempts to notice and bring awareness to everyday relational experiences is what grounds my interest in embodied practices, performance and creativity, community and teaching work.'
Danielle has worked for 17 years at The Venny Inc., a communal backyard/drop in centre, where she spends a lot of her time engaging and playing with kids and young people. This work involves being present to vulnerable and ‘at risk' kids and young people in an environment of support and care with therapeutic intentions.
She has collaborated with Chamber Made artists over the past six years to co-direct and devise performances at The Venny with kids. These include Lost and Found (2012), From Here to There (2013), Stories from the Suitcase (2014), The Concert (2015) and Imagine a Place (2017)
Danielle is an ensemble member with Rawcus Theatre since 2009, a company of people both with and without disabilities. Her productions with Rawcus include: Small Odysseys (2011), Catalogue (2015), Song for a Weary Throat (2017), Rawcus Public Program Projects: Sticky (2009), Accessible Flashmob (2011), Imagine Me There (2012), Shadow Tales (2013), By You Me and the Light (2015) and Now You See Me
Darrin Verhagen is a freelance music writer for dance, theatre and computer games. He has released a variety of albums under his own name, as well as a range of pseudonyms. Darrin has performed his minimal, experimental soundworks at festivals around the globe, and more recently has started performing his dark orchestral material in concert as shinjuku thief. Darrin lectures in sound design, soundtrack and electronic music at RMIT university, previously having run the Dorobo record label.
Job Titles:
- Animator & Designer
- Animator / Director / Illustrator
Dave Jones has been working as an animator/director/illustrator since 1994. In 1999 he founded the animation company "Transience" and shortly afterwards released the critically acclaimed and multi-award winning short film TEETERING. Since then animated works of transience have featured in festivals and collected awards across the globe (France, Brazil, Germany, America, Spain, Italy, Australia and Korea).
He has worked with the ABC's to help create DUST ECHOES series of animated indigenous stories from the Beswick Community in the Northern Territory. Dave directed and animated a number these stories including THE WAGALAK SISTERS, THE MIMIS and THE BAT AND THE BUTTERFLY (nominated for an AFI award).
As part of his ongoing IN MY DAY animated series Dave has sought to document and revitalize the oral history of Australia. Films from this series have won ‘Best Animation' at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), ‘Best Australian Animation' at the Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) and featured at the prestigious Oberhausen Film Festival in Germany.
In addition to his traditional animation work, Dave has become renowned over the last decade, for his work in the rapidly evolving field of digital theatre. He directed the animation for a number of projects that incorporate animation into live theatre such as Legs On the Wall's ON THE CASE, Federation Square's (Greenroom Award Winning) ADVENT CALENDAR and SPACE AND PLACE as well as more traditional theatrical settings such as The Malthouse theatre's recreation of ONE NIGHT THE MOON and NGANGWURRA with the Black Arm Band.
In 2013 Dave received the prestigious CREATIVE AUSTRALIA FELLOWSHIP from the Australia Council.
Job Titles:
- Artistic Director
- Director
Dr Chris Cottrell's creative practice explores our relationship to the built environment, with a focus on helping us to recognise and care about the subtle or invisible forces that influence the world around us. Working with air, pressure, breath, movement, textiles, optical effects, sound and listening, the broader question is one of how we can create meaningful relationships to our surrounding environments. He has exhibited extensively in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom and held international artist residencies in Slovenia, Scotland and New Zealand. Dr Cottrell's practice is inherently relational, prioritising collaboration with other participants and drawing out opportunities from material and contextual cues. He describes this practice as ‘architectural judo', a transversal practice that operates across installation and performative art, architecture, interior design and writing. This practice is informed by his PhD studies at RMIT University, his professional training in Architecture (University of Auckland) and Masters in Fine Art (Edinburgh College of Art).
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- Communications Manager
- Communications Manager / Zoe Nicholson Operations Coordinator
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- Sound Artist, Curator & Writer
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- Theatre Practitioner & Hi - Viz Satellites 2023 LABs Facilitator
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- Treasurer of the Board
- Director, PwC
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- Secretary of the Board
- Cellist & Barrister
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- Chairman of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer, Regional Arts Victoria
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- Visual Artist, Writer & Curator
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- Member of the Board
- Founder & Director, Play on and Community Arts Manager, Belgium Avenue Neighbourhood House ( BANH ) Inc
Maeve is a freelance theatre director whose work emphasises musical innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration. She conceives and directs site-specific plays adapted from literary texts or concepts and revisits the canon with a feminist lens. Originally from Limerick, Maeve moved to Dublin in 2005 to study Theatre and English at Trinity where she graduated with honours in 2009. She became resident Assistant Director at The Abbey Theatre in 2012 and following this became the first Associate Director with Pan Pan Theatre Company. Recent directing credits include Left Behind: Songs of the 1916 Rising, The Meeting House, Wake, The Red Room and Underground Gothic. She is currently working on a new collaboration with THE RABBLE for production in 2018. She is a member of the #WakingTheFeminists movement and co-founder of Change of Address Collective, working to connect artists and refugees.
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- Audiovisual Designer, Electronic Performance & Installation Artist
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- Choreographer & Performance Artist
- Performance Artist
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- Interactive Designer & Developer
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- Creative Artist & Vocalist
Mindy Meng Wang is a Hi-Viz 2021 presenting artist.
Mindy is a versatile Chinese/Australian Composer and world leading contemporary Guzheng Performing Artist. She is a pioneer to bring the Guzheng (ancient Chinese harp) into many western genres such as experimental, Jazz, western classical, Electronic, pop and improvisation.
In the UK, she collaborated with many high-profile artists like Gorillaz and frequently performed in many significant venues like O2 Arena and Barbican Centre in London among others, she also performed regularly in festivals in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and France.
In Australia, Mindy performs regularly in many events, festivals and top venues including the Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin, Adelaide, OzAsia, Mona Foma, Dark Mofo, TEDx Sydney, AsiaTOPA festivals. Her collaborators include Regurgitator, Tim Shiel, Paul Grabowsky and Deborah Cheetham, AAO, Orchestra Victoria, MSO among others.
Her work explores the fertile space between traditional and contemporary practices, and is part of a significant movement of Chinese musicians redefining and reinvigorating their musical tradition. She is a strong voice for young female composers and artists of Chinese heritage on global stage.
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- Artist & Movement Practitioner
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- Member of the Board
- Director, Governance and Strategic Planning at Museums Victoria
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- Artist, Thinker and Opera Architect
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- Production and Stage Manager
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- Operations Coordinator
- Communications Manager / Zoe Nicholson Operations Coordinator