Multicountry
Multicountry
2015
- Doni Maulistya (Indonesia)
Artback NT, Australia & Cemeti Art House, Indonesia
Supported by The Australian Government through The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program, An initiative of The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade & Arts NT
Doni Maulistya started his artistic journey as a photography-based artist and now works across art form. He has worked with Papermoon Puppet Theatre and Migrating Troop Theatre in Yogyakarta, and has undertaken residencies and exhibited in Indonesia and Singapore. He is interested in history, tradition, and dialectic dimensions between the old and the new. At Cemeti Art House and Artback NT, Doni will explore the relationship between visual and performing arts by connecting with local artists.
- Karla Dickens (NSW)
Artback NT, Australia & Cemeti Art House, Indonesia
Supported by The Australian Government through The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program, An initiative of The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade & Arts NT
Karla Dickens is a Wiradjuri woman. Her works are in the collections of museums, regional galleries, and private collections, nationally and internationally. Karla's work is informed by personal experience, gender politics and sexual preference, motherhood, a deep spiritualism and the difficulty of being an outsider in a culture as it reinvents itself and strives to survive. Karla's totem, the eagle, and Indonesia's cultural symbol, the Garuda, will be the starting point for her work during the residency at Cemeti Art House and Artback NT.
2005
- Rosemary Miller (TAS)
Shanghai Animation Film Studio, China & Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, India
Supported by " Funded by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council for the Arts
At the time of her residency Rosemary Miller was Director of Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart, headquarters to many of Tasmania’s arts organisations and activities. She has strong interests in performance, visual and media arts and in culturally diverse arts practices. To further these interests, she worked with Reckless Moments in Shanghai on Creative Futures, a three-year program of cultural collaboration between China and Australia. Valuable contacts and networks were further developed whilst based with the Shanghai Animation Film Studio and through her travels in Hong Kong and Beijing. In India she was based with Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, Gujarat, where she explored their inter-cultural and interdisciplinary arts programs.
2004
- Liz Hughes (NSW)
Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Japan and Korea
Supported by Arts Victoria & The Australia-Korea Foundation
Liz Hughes has a long history of working in film and digital media. As Artistic Director of Experimenta, Hughes has curated and co-curated a number of ambitious exhibitions which have toured nationally, attracting massive audiences and extensive media coverage. Hughes' residency was split between two organisations, Arts Initiatives in Tokyo and the Seoul Museum of Art in Korea. Her time in Korea was spent primarily curating and installing the 3rd Seoul International Media Art Biennale. Through meetings with Korean artists and curators, Hughes has identified Korean artists and a curator for Experimenta's Vanishing Point exhibition in Melbourne in 2005, which will tour Australia and internationally. In Japan, Hughes undertook research into Japanese artists, venues and curatorial practice.
1998
- Margie Medlin (NSW)
Seoul Arts Centre, South Korea & Kuali Works, Malaysia
Supported by the Australia Korea Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts
Margie Medlin is a freelance lighting designer, projection designer and film maker. She has created lighting and projection work for Chambermade Opera, Arena Theatre, desoxy theatre, The Contemporary Music Events Company and the National Gallery of Victoria. During her time in Korea, Margie split her residency between the Seoul Arts Centre and Kuali Works, Malaysia.
1997
- Mike Canfield (NSW)
Vietnamese National Theatre Company, Vietname & Disabled Association Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the NSW Ministry for the Arts
At the time of his residency Mike Canfield was the Artistic Director, Australian Theatre of the Deaf, and while in Vietnam with his sign interpreter Pam Spicer, worked with the Vietnamese National Theatre Company in Hanoi, on a non-verbal production of The Request Of Spring by Le Quy Duong. He also conducted workshops in the area of visual theatre for the Ho Chi Minh Theatre and Film School, culminating in a presentation which was attended by the Australian Consul General. The second half of Canfield’s residency was spent in Hong Kong working with teachers of the Deaf, social workers and theatre artists, organised by the Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong.
1996
- Paul Spillane (NSW)
Theatreworks, Singapore & Akademi Seni Kebangsaan, Malaysia
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, the Malaysia Australia Foundation & the Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur
Paul Spillane was already an internationally experienced technician, working as a Technical Director in stage operations at the Victorian Arts Centre Trust, when he undertook his residency in Singapore and Malaysia. As an arts manager in residence, Spillane assisted with a range of productions for Theatreworks in Singapore and was able to share practical ideas, such as how to polish a production so the audience can enjoy a performance without any technical distractions. In Malaysia, Paul gave a number of hands-on workshops to technical students at the National Arts Academy (Akademi Seni Kebangsaan) and was heavily involved in their first public performance of Oedipus Rex at Experimental Theatre in Kuala Lumpur.