Creative Exchanges: 1996

Nadeyn Barbieri (QLD) The Urban Council Of Hong Kong

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Queensland

At the time of the residency Nadeyn Barbieri worked at the Bemac Centre in Queensland. Barbieri spent six months at The Urban Council Of Hong Kong working on the Hong Kong Arts Festival and International Arts Carnival.

Rodney Spooner (SA) Sanskriti Kendra

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia India Council

Rodney Spooner served for eight years Military service Australian Regular Army and in the British Army, Hong Kong before becoming a full time artist. During his residency at Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India created works for successful exhibition, Homespun at the Lalit Kala Fresco Gallery in New Delhi.

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australia-India Council & Arts SA

Sally Chance is a dancer/choreographer who at the time of her residency was Director of Restless Dance Company in South Australia. Chance worked with Darpana Performing Arts Academy in Ahmedabad, sharing her specialist skills and experience in working with people with a disability. During the residency she  conducted workshops for people with physical and intellectual disabilities culminating in the performance Fragments and professional development workshops for special education teachers. She also devised a production for the 1996 Vikram Sarabhai International Arts Festival and worked closely with the Jagruti team of educationalists, actors and environmentalists who explore environmental issues through the arts.

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia-India Council

Tim Dargaville's career covers a diverse range of collaborative works as composer, pianist and percussionist.  Rosalie Hastwell has worked extensively in the fields of performance, multicultural arts and cultural planning. Through their joint residency at Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Arts Research, Pondicherry, they identified a range of contacts with artists, organisations and NGOs interested in future art partnerships.  Dargaville created a new work for percussion utilising a range of traditional and non-traditional instruments and rhythmic styles, developed with Adishakti’s actor/musicians. Hastwell developed a community program to engage local villagers in the company’s activities and ran a series of very successful art workshops for local village children.

Deborah Pollard (NSW) Teater Asdrafi

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Indonesia Institute

Deborah Pollard is a performer and director who was the Artistic Director of Salamanca Theatre Company in Hobart from 1997 to 2000. Since 1993 Deborah has been working in collaboration with Indonesian performance and installation artists. She spent three months at the Teater Asdrafi.

Supported by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Indonesia Institute

Laurel Frank is a costume designer who produces theatre costumes. She spent four months at ASKI, the Institute for the Arts in Padang Pandjang, West Sumatra. She was invited to design some new costumes for RANDI, a dance-drama form dating back to the 1930's.

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Indonesia Institute

Ron Reeves has been playing, studying and working throughout Asia and Europe for nearly 20 years and is a diverse, dynamic multi-instrumentalist. During the residency he was able to fulfill a five-year dream to form Earth Music, a collaborative band fusing jazz and traditional Sundanese music. The band performed and gave workshops in Jakarta and Bandung, and recorded an album that was subsequently released in Australia, Europe and the USA. The aim was to create new music and foster new understandings through a broad mixture of Australian/Indonesian traditional and non-traditional approaches, both for the artists involved and the wider audience.

Jim Franklin Kunitachi College of Music

Supported by the  Australia Council for the Arts

Jim Franklin is a composer/musician working with the new technologies who spent three months as composer/performer in residence with the Centre For Computer Music and Music Technology at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. Franklin used state-of-the-art facilities for music technology in combination with Japanese traditional instruments for composition and collaborated with Japanese musicians to present the work.

Annette Douglass (VIC) Rimbun Dahan

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur

Annette Douglas spent four months at the Institut Teknologi MARA. She gave several lectures on both her art practice, and art in general to students and staff at ITM, and gave practical demonstrations to sculpture students, as well as interested painting and print making students. She held an exhibition of her installation work at a private gallery and artists residence, Rimbun Dahan, with two other artists, Renee Krall and Enid Ratnam Keese.

Supported by Arts QLD, Malaysia Australia Foundation & Australian High Commission Malaysia

Queensland based theatre director, Steven Gration spent four months at the Five Arts Centre, Kuala Lumpur. During his residency Gration was invited to work as a director/facilitator on an original Theater in Education performance for secondary school students.

Graham Pitts (VIC) Philippines Educational Theater Association

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Victorian based playwright, Graham Pitts spent three months with the Philippines Educational Theater Association (Peta).

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria

Jacqui Geia was an arts manager who worked extensively in the area of contemporary music, particularly with Aboriginal musicians. During her residency, she worked closely with the Performing Arts Department of the in Manila and met with local artists and organisations in Manila and Mindanao. Geia was involved in all aspects of arts management at the CCP, from writing sponsorship applications for government funding to lecturing in audience development and sponsorship. She conducted workshops with the entire 500 person staff at the CCP and also tutored classes at the Sabu Youth Orchestra. In addition, Jacqui travelled to regional communities bringing back local crafts and has assisted in finding Australian markets for these products. She is remembered with fondness and respect by all who knew her.

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria

At the time of her residency Jane Scott was working at the National Gallery Of Victoria. Scott spent two months at The Cultural Center Of The Philippines.

Dean Hills (SA) TheatreWorks

Supported by the Australia Council for the Artsand Arts SA

South Australian based designer Dean Hills spent 3 months as a set designer with the TheatreWorks Singapore Company.

Csaba Buday (SA) National Institute of the Arts

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts South Australia

At the time of the residency Csaba Buday was a member of the Leigh Warren and Dancers, having previously worked as a dancer and choreographer with Dance North and the Australian Dance Theatre. Buday worked with the Dance Department of the National Institute of the Arts, Taipei to develop a collaboration with students from the NIA and Adelaide’s Centre for Performing Arts.

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Myer Foundation

Jo Porter was the first Asialink arts management resident to Taiwan, working with the Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Centre in Taipei in 1996. Porter was, at that time, Touring and Special Projects Manager with the Sydney Theatre Company and had also worked with Sydney Festival and Carnivaleas as Program Manager.  Following her residency, Porter continued working on touring projects internationally including the 1997 tour of David Helfgott for International Concert Attractions.

Wendy Teakel (ACT) Songkhlanakarin University

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Australian Embassy, Bangkok

Sculptor Wendy Teakel spent four months at Songkhlanakarin University in Song Khla.

Bruce Keller (NSW) The Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi Theatre Schools and The Foreign Language Publishing House

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

New South Wales based theatre director Bruce Keller spent three months at The Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi Theatre Schools and The Foreign Language Publishing House.

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Sculptor and installation artist, Debra Porch spent four months at the Hanoi Fine Art College.

Supported by the Cameron Macintosh Foundation

The residency served as an opportunity for Kym Purling to visit Vietnam and return to his ancestral roots. As a graduate from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Music degree in jazz, Purling developed a relationship with the local musicians and performing arts administrators and practitioners.

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.