RESIDENCIES AND MENTORING
Alumni
2011
HOUSEPROUD
Ben Landau and Anna van Veldhuisen, who co-directed a new percussion and performance installation piece, House Proud, presented by the Brisbane Festival 2011 as part of UNDER THE RADAR. These 2011 mentees in the Aphids Residency and Mentoring scheme made an explosion in Brisbane in September 2011.
A short, immersive performance experience for small audiences. Three percussionists interpret the sounds of everyday life in an IKEA-esque house, exploring the ideas of habit, space, ritual and perfection. By focusing on the unnoticed, beautiful and minute sounds we make in our repetitive daily gestures, House Proud challenges audiences to examine their home life and appreciate the simplistic joy of the house soundscape.
House Proud is the brainchild of Melbourne’s Anna van Veldhuisen (percussion and composition) and Ben Landau (design), and features Brisbane’s Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and Angus Wilson. Drawn from real-life research into the quirks and habits of housemates, friends, family and colleagues, the team of percussionists will celebrate, through musical performance, the nature of us and our homes.
APHIDS INDIGENOUS MENTORING SCHEME
The recipient of the 2011 Aphids Indigenous Mentoring Scheme is Don Bemrose.
Don Bemrose is Australia’s foremost male Aboriginal classical artist. Don grew up in a small hinterland town on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast and is a proud Gungarri man whose family hail from the Cherbourg Aboriginal Community. At the age of 13, Don, with inspiration from his Nana (respected Elder Aunty Ruth Hegarty) discovered the story of Aboriginal Tenor, Harold Blair. This began his passion for the classical voice and lit his desire to perform around the world.
Don will receive a cash contribution towards artistic expenses, and tailored mentoring by Aphids' Artistic Associate - Margie Mackay.
2010
Remote Sense
Aphids (based in Melbourne), Punctum (based in Castlemaine) and Castlemaine State Festival joined forces to assist two young and emerging Australian artists working with the moving image (video/ animation / film/ machinima/ expanded cinema and more) to undertake unique professional and creative development hosted by Punctum at its Incubator space.
Remote Sense saw a period of invention and intervention within Castlemaine’s metallurgic landscape, and conversation with the local film community, with outcomes generated through the mentorship leading to exhibition and screenings as part of the 2011 Castlemaine State Festival.
Remote Sense mentorships were granted to the following artists:
Kristin Rule
http://www.kristinrule.com/
Image: Oliver Patsch
Kristin Rule was mentored by Paul Fletcher, an award winning experimental animation filmmaker/multi media writer/composer, and animation lecturer at the VCA.
As a cross-disciplinary cellist, composer and looper Kristin works with moving image and live music performance. She has completed a Bachelor of Music majoring in Composition at the VCA and has toured extensively around Australia supported by the Australia Council. During her 2006 national tour, Kristin presented original moving images with live cello loop performances, delivering contemporary world music to people across the country via a motorcycle and trailer with its own solar power system.
Kristin used the Remote Sense residency/mentorship opportunity in Castlemaine to develop skills for creating visual accompaniment to her latest album, The Knife that Cuts a Tear, released on the 31st of May 2010.
Antoinette J. Citizen
http://antoinettejcitizen.com/
Image: Antoinette Citizen
Antoinette J. Citizen was mentored by Miles Bennett, a visual artist/ writer/ director/ editor who has collaborated with American director Darren Aronofsky to document his feature (during the Australian leg) ‘The Fountain’.
Antoinette Citizen is a filmmaker, visual artist and curator based in Brisbane and Melbourne. She is a current candidate for the Master of Arts at RMIT. Her work has been presented both in Australia and internationally (Germany, Luxembourg, United Kingdom). She has recently partaken in residencies at the Digital Art Studio in the United Kingdom and !Metro Arts and currently works as the co-director of No Frills* Artist Run Initiative in Brisbane. Antoinette used her Remote Sense residency to undertake experiments in filming 360-degree panoramas of the Australian countryside, featuring extended durations of footage (up to 12 hours in length). This will be used in the creation of a large-scale work that incorporates her interest in immersive environments and audience responsive work.
Sunset over Cardboard Mountains
In 2010, Aphids supported Ed Gould, Lisa Stewart and Rachel Feery in their development of Sunset Over Cardboard Mountains, a new collaborative work for the 2010 Next Wave Festival. The artists were mentored by writer / director / performer Margaret Cameron.Seated within their very own cardboard boxes, Sunset Over Cardboard Mountains took audiences on an experiential journey across imaginary plains, combining the storytelling capacity of live instrumental music with evolving visual effects.
Image: Max Milne
2009
Lara Thoms, Artist
Hybrid Arts Residency at Radialsystem V, BerlinOctober 2009
The Hybrid Arts Residency allowed Lara Thoms to engage in cross-artform practice to take part in a critical mass of activity taking place in Radialsystem V - during the Asia-Pacific Weeks Hybrid Arts Fest during the 22nd September and the 18th October, 2009.
Lara also presented her new media work, and video goggles at the Hybrid Arts Fest as part of the Asia-Pacific Weeks. As part of the Australian Hybrid arts festival, Lara showed her work to an audience of forty people, delivering a performance lecture centred on a false history of the Arts Centre, bringing attention to the forgotten spaces, quirky communities and everyday oddities in the building. She performed a thirty minute work with a series of digitally manipulated photographs, props and costumes.
Further details on Lara Thom's residency at Radialsystem V in Berlin can be read here.
Matthew Gingold, New Media Artist
Tactical-Media Residency at CIA (Centre for Interdisciplinary Art) Studios - PerthSEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2009
Matthew Gingold undertook the Aphids’ Tactical Media Residency offered in partnership with CIA (Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts) in Perth, Western Australia.
Gingold has been working as a new media artist, arts project manager and technical director in Australia and abroad for the last ten years. His work has taken him to Singapore, Korea, Japan, Britain, Germany, China and many regional areas and capital cities in Australia. Gingold’s new media work is concerned with perception, performance and the intersection of the body with technology in a multiplicity of contexts.
Further details about Matthew Gingold's residency at CIA Studios can be read here.
Choose Your Own Adventure Recipients
The Choose Your Own Adventure – Quick Response was set up by Aphids to assist young and emerging artists working within new music and/or interdisciplinary practice to undertake self-directed unique and ambitious professional and creative development on a national or international level.
Ross Manning, Instrument Maker and Artist
Undertook a residency with Koelse Experimental Music Association in Helsinki, and Ptarmigan electronic art space in Finland. He was also involved as a performer at the Penny Parade in Berlin, coordinated by internationally lauded pop musician, artist and producer – Arto Lindsay.
Ross Manning - recipient of a Choose Your Own Adventure residency – with internationally recognized artist and musician Arto Lindsay – at the Penny Parade in Berlin
To view examples of Ross' work, see Clatterbox, Youtube here and here, and Myspace.
Jeremy Neideck, Butoh dancer and choreographer
South Korea
'Strange Earth', Interactive Dance Installation (2009) With Park Jong Hyon (National Art Studio, Korea) - Photographer: Park Jong Hyon
Jeremy Neideck traveled to South Korea to participate in a training program with vocal specialist Oh Minh Ah of the National Theatre of Korea. He also presented a series of performances with South Korea's Crossing of Movements.
Further details about Jeremy's performances and residency can be viewed here.
Sam Routledge, puppeteer
Residency with AMRA, Melbourne
Sam Routledge
Developed a miniature puppetry/video project featuring models and dioramas used by the Australian Model Railway’s Association Clubhouse (AMRA)
As part of Sam Routledge’s residency with AMRA, he explored the processes of running a miniature railway timetable and the processes of making a miniature puppet work.
Routledge’s residency with AMRA involved collaborating with members of the trainspotting subculture to develop filmic and miniature puppetry installations and performances.
Sally Golding, Filmmaker
Residency with San Francisco Cinematheque
Sally Golding undertook an international residency with the San Francisco Cinematheque in the USA to present a series of performances and engage in critical discussion in expanded cinema practice with internationally respected media artist Kerry Laitala.
For more information on Sally's work visit OtherFilm and Abject Leader
2008
MAURIAL ROSE SPEARIM - Artist
Aphids is delighted to have been able to support the mentorship of Maurial Rose Spearim during the development of Margie Mackay's Longing Belonging Land, presented at the opening night of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival. Longing Belonging Land marks the ongoing significance, necessity and importance of the National Apology.
WILLOH S. WEILAND - Producer, artist, writer, performer
Willoh developed Yelling at Stars, Australia’s first inter-stellar message, transmitted into outer space from The Sidney Myer Music Bowl on the closing night of the 2008 Next Wave Festival. The transmission was a 40-minute sound, audiovisual and performance work prefaced with an introduction by SBS Television’s World News Australia presenter Anton Enus.
The performance was supported by a major web-based component, in which the ‘Yelling at Stars’ team lead viewers through the many philosophical and scientific issues involved in interstellar communications. Yelling at Stars
RICHARD HAYNES - Clarinetist
Developed and performed Listen My Secret Fetish, presented in the LOFT, Melbourne, as part of Midsumma Festival 2008.
SIMON CHARLES - Writer
Undertook a six-month residency with RealTime + Onscreen nationally distributed print and online magazine in Sydney to specialize as a writer and reviewer in hybrid art and new music industry.
CLARE WATSON - Artist / Theater Director
Developed a series of site-specific installations titled The Museum of Some Time at Bains: Connective in Brussels; an associative museum scavenged from flea markets and urban street finds, relating to theories by George Perec and Walter Benjamin.
2007
DARIO VACIRCA - Crossartformer
Dario Vacirca undertook a residency at Bains::Connective in Brussels to explore concepts of nomadic structures and sheep-soul transmogrification.
Outcomes of Dario's residency at Bains::Connective included an installation of 3 video loops projected onto a wall of hay and a performance piece for one person at a time. 42 bails of hay were relocated from the field where Dario sat with white Belgian sheep for 3 days and nights. welltheatre.blogspot.com
ANNABELLE BROWN - Soprano
Secondment to the Aphids project Music at Mt Egerton
International residencies at Bains::Connective, Brussels and Castel Burio, Italy
Annabelle Brown performing in Music at Mt Egerton
IVAN THORLEY - Choreographer, film maker
Crow Song film investigation.
LOUISE CURHAM - Film artist
Selected as part of the artist-in-studio program at Bank Art1929 in Yokohama, Japan, Curham developed a public exhibition and new film work utilising hand-processed celluloid.
MATTHIAS SCHACK-ARNOTT - Percussionist
Matthias was seconded to the Aphids project Music at Mt Egerton where he played miniature percussion instruments as part of performances in regional Victoria.
OLAF MEYER - Media artist
Sustainable energy residency with support from Federation Square.
As part of the residency, Olaf undertook the creative development of the Water Harp, a new media instrument exploring water and solar usage, and involving community engagement to explore music and sustainable practice.
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Aphids has also provided mentorships to theatre maker James Brennan, new media artist Matthew Gardiner and playwright Lally Katz.In 2005, Aphids auspiced and produced Matthew Gardiner’s Oribotics at the Sydney Myer Asialink Centre. The project has since been presented in Perth, Sydney, USA, Japan and Europe.
Through auspicing and producing James Brennan’s The Glass Garden in 2002, Aphids was able to support a young performer to develop his fledgling ideas into a major new work.