Margie Medlin (AUS/ GB) has an illustrious biography in lighting design and experimental filmmaking and media artist. She has lit and designed new dance performances, produced film, video, new media art works, mentored and curated. Her work specialises relationship between dance and the moving image. Margie has collaborated with many choreographers and directors including Ros Warby, Sandra Parker, Rebecca Hilton, Lucy Guerin, Carol Brown, Russell Dumas, Russell Maliphant, John Jaspers, Ong Keng Sen, Hellen Sky, Vicki Van Hout and Gideon Obarzanek and mentored many young dance-makers in Australia and internationally.
As Director of Critical Path, Australia’s leading centre for choreographic research, Sydney, 2007 to 2015. Margie’s program was dedicated to instigation of innovative platforms for choreographers and interdisciplinary artists.
Margie Medlin (AUS/ GB) has an illustrious biography in lighting design and experimental filmmaking and media artist. She has lit and designed new dance performances, produced film, video, new media art works, mentored and curated. Her work specialises relationship between dance and the moving image. Margie has collaborated with many choreographers and directors including Ros Warby, Sandra Parker, Rebecca Hilton, Lucy Guerin, Carol Brown, Russell Dumas, Russell Maliphant, John Jaspers, Ong Keng Sen, Hellen Sky, Vicki Van Hout and Gideon Obarzanek and mentored many young dance-makers in Australia and internationally.
As Director of Critical Path, Australia’s leading centre for choreographic research, Sydney, 2007 to 2015. Margie’s program was dedicated to instigation of innovative platforms for choreographers and interdisciplinary artists.
Margie Medlin
Facilitator: The Space in the Middle
About us
“The political context has deep implications for the health of a democracy of which the agency of the artist is a key indicator. Artists are the canaries in the coalmine of democracy – if there is not enough oxygen they die. Strange Attractor, and platforms like it, ensure artists have the opportunity to breathe. This trajectory from artistic practice to democracy means that to be an artist in the 21st C, we need to be active citizens. Strange Attractor helps us become better at both.”
David Pledger, The Facilitator 2016
Strange Attractor is a platform and lab for artists to deepen artistic methodologies and strengthen critical discourse in experimental and emerging practices. It operates as an interface between the artists as collaborative peers and their audiences/publics to develop new languages for artistic practice and insight to artistic research.
SA offer artists the opportunity to assert leadership potential whilst exploring new possibilities for creative exchange. SA want to strengthen the muscle of artist led practice with artists in how and why we make work in a trans-disciplinary manner. We want to carve out space for an artist led interdisciplinary enquiry into where the arts are now and where we can take it into the future.
Our Team.
Acknowledgment.
Strange Attractor acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land where we work: the Ngunnawal people of the Ngunnawal Country (Canberra), the Ngambri people of Ngambri Country (Canberra), the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation (Sydney) and the Wadandi people on Wooditjup Bilya, (Margaret River, Western Australia).
Strange Attractor has been funded by artsACT, City of Sydney, Create NSW and generously supported by Ainslie+Gorman Art Centres, Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS), Ql2 Dance, Powerhouse Museum / Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS), Critical Path Choreographic Centre and Sydney Environment Institute.