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
MAKE-THINK-SPEAK
Called ’make-think-speak’, the curatorial intention of David Pledger (NYID) was to apply a dramaturgical trajectory across artistic, social and political contexts and to support the participants in understanding the complicity of the artist in each of these contexts. This understanding enables the artist to take control of their participation in each context and positively influence outcomes.
The question that resonated most deeply throughout the platform was: ”what would it look like if artists themselves designed and drove the platforms, frames and structures that supported their needs?”
The two-week lab opened up collaborations with Canberra's resident intellectuals from CSIRO and Australian National University to present their work and stimulate the artists to consider their practice in new ways and in broader contexts. CSIRO scientist Brian Walker and landscape architect Dr Susan Boden (ANU) spoke of resilience & stability and narrative film and architecture.
ARTISTS AND COLLABORATORS: Loren Kronemyer (WA), William McBride (VIC), Shona Erskine (WA), Alice Dixon (VIC), Matt Shillcock (SA), Daisy Sanders (WA), Liz Lea (ACT) and Alison Plevey (ACT) with Ella-Rose Threw (WA) and Olivia Fyfe (ACT).
GUEST SPEAKERS: Brian Walker - a scientist of ecology and resilience in social ecological systems. He was Chief of Australia’s CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology for 15 years and is now a Fellow in their Land and Water Flagship.
Dr Susan Boden - a modernist trained, positivist landscape architect who is also trained and works in the chaos of a medical general practice. Her PhD was in landscape and narrative film.
PUBLICATION: This years Writer in Residence Zsuzsi Soboslay spends time with the artists in process and reflects on the lab and public sharing in 'Art, empathy and risk' published in RealTime Magazine as well as 'Strange Attractor at Gorman Arts Centre looks at role of choreography in art world' in the Canberra Times.
PUBLIC EVENT: Launch 'David Pledger is Running for Office - Minister for Empathy'
In the context of the 2016 Federal Election, artist David Pledger(dp) will launch a durational artwork in the form of a campaign, where he seeks election for various offices in multiple contexts over a number of years.
dp asks how should artists and politicians behave in a time when civil society and political culture are profoundly disconnected ? What is an artist? What is a politician? And what kind of politician might an artist be?
The Campaign Launch in Canberra sets the tone for a new style of art-making and politicking based around the idea of ‘conversation’ as an artistic mode.
Where: Ainslie+Gorman Arts Centres, Main Hall
When: 22 June 7.30pm
William McBride is a Melbourne-based performance maker working across mediums of dance, theatre, contemporary performance and live art. He works mostly collaboratively to devise work with other independent artists.
Alice Dixon is a Melbourne based artist working across mediums of dance, contemporary performance, theatre and video. Her choreographic practice is currently an enquiry into form at the nexus of dance and theatre.
Loren Kronemyer is an internationally exhibiting artist from Los Angeles, California. Kronemyer's work involves exploring across disciplines to pursue ideas of interspecies communication, ecological agency, and self-annihilation.
Matt Shilcock is a South Australian based dance artist and 2nd Kyu in Budo Taijutsu and specialised weaponry, with a strength in adapting mobility aids to choreographic and weaponised use. His passion movement extends from his own accomplishments in transitioning from a fulltime wheelchair user to his current practices in dance, fitness training and martial arts.
Since 2000 Shona has danced with the Sue Healey Company and has toured Healey’sworks through Australia, New Zealand, Britain, and Japan. In 2003 they completed the Niche Series, compiled of six works and culminating in a season at the Sydney Opera House. In 2005 Shona joined Natalie Cursio, for The Album Project and a tour of Korea.
David is a contemporary artist working within and between the performing, visual and media arts in Australia, Asia and Europe. From his initial practice, live performance, he has developed a cross-disciplinary dramaturgy in which a central platform is engaging with artists across artforms and experts from social, scientific and academic fields.