AUSTRALIAN

Daryl Buckley - AUSTRALIA

Studied politics and history at The University of Melbourne and music at the Victorian College of the Arts. He is the Artistic Director of ELISION Ensemble, Australia's premier contemporary music group. In this capacity, Daryl has been responsible for the development of innovative projects in the domains of contemporary opera, site-specific installation, improvisation and electronic music.

As the Artistic Director for the 21 members of ELISION, Daryl has developed a broad experience of national and international cultural infrastructure, the handling of international collaborations involving participants from several different countries, concert and recording negotiations, and a practical understanding of the need for funding diversification and inter-arts collaborations in the practice of contemporary arts companies.

He has organised sixteen international tours with highlights including performances at the Hebbel Theater of Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, Wien Modern, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, the Deutschlandfunk and Radio Bremen, Festival Ars Musica of Brussels, the Züricher TheaterSpektakel, Saitama Arts Theatre, IRCAM as part of the Agora festival in Paris and the Ultima Festival of Oslo. Yuè Lìng Jié (Moon Spirit Feasting) a Ritual Street Opera by Liza LIM (music) and Beth YAHP (libretto) was premiered at the Adelaide and Melbourne festivals, and in 2002 toured to Berlin, Zürich and Japan for the Saitama Arts Centre. Other major projects have included the performance-installation works DARK MATTER with Richard BARRETT and visual artist Per Inge BJØRLO, and TULP, the body public with new media artist Justine COOPER and composer John RODGERS.

In 1997 an invitation was received and accepted by Daryl to be part of an Australian Cultural delegation to Japan in a visit jointly organised by the Japan Foundation and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia. In 1998 Daryl also participated in the Danish-Australian cultural interaction through his involvement in the Vision is to change Vision conference, held in Århus, Denmark. In 1999 Daryl curated a series of installation and concert projects as the music component of the Queensland Art Gallery's Third Asia-Pacific Triennial. Currently Daryl is advising Robyn ARCHER, the Artistic Director of Liverpool Capital of Culture 2008 Programme.

He has also presented solo guitar concerts and workshops in Melbourne, Sydney, Rome, Seoul and Berlin. Richard BARRETT's transmission for electric guitar and electronics was written for and premiered by Daryl at the Oh-Ton season in Oldenburg, Germany on August 31, 2000.

Teresa Crea - AUSTRALIA (Coordinating Facilitator)

Teresa Crea is a writer and director but her recent interests have gravitated more towards hybrid and new media art. Her work spans grass-roots and participatory projects, to contemporary experimental productions and live art events. Crea has commissioned and directed projects in digital media, including a series of sound and performance installations in Adelaide, Perth and Singapore.

Crea was awarded a New Media Arts Fellowship in 2003, her two-year Fellowship program beginning in 2004. Trained in film and theatre, Crea co-founded Australia's first professionally recognised bicultural performance company, Doppio Teatro, in 1983. She devised many bilingual works with the company, several of which toured nationally and internationally. Both the company and Crea have received national awards for their seminal contribution to multiculturalism in the arts.

As a creator and director, Crea has found herself working with an increasingly broad spectrum of artists, and making work across a variety of platforms. Working with large interdisciplinary teams has required her to act as a translator, mediator, negotiator and curator.

"...for me, one of the most exciting and yet to be defined areas of future practice exists in that space between cross-cultural and interdisciplinary/new media..."

Clare Grant - AUSTRALIA

Clare Grant is currently Lecturer in Performance at the University of NSW, where she teaches writing for a range of performance genres and the devising of new work and has directed several major productions with students. She is a freelance performer and dramaturg. She was a founding member of Sydney Front, touring Australia, Europe and Hong Kong and was Artistic Director of Playworks 1993 – 97. Grant has performed in many new works for performance, including Burn Sonata and Inland Sea (1998 and 2000, devised with and directed by Nikki Heywood), Laquiem (1999, composed and directed by Andree Greenwell from the writings of Kathleen Mary Fallon), the live performance of Prelude to the Mary Stuart Tapes 1998 and 1999 and the film: The Mary Stuart Tapes (Melbourne and Sydney Film Festivals) with John Gillies. She has presented a performed paper Translating the Imperceptible in 2001 in Mainz (Germany), Dancehouse (Melbourne), and at the Performance Space (Sydney). She played Daphne in Christine Evan’s Pussyboy at Belvoir St in 2002. Recent dramaturgical work includes Time_Place_Space 3, and with Branch Nebula and (sic) creative development processes.

INTERNATIONAL

Shigeaki Iwai – JAPAN

Shigeaki Iwai makes works investigating the self-referentiality of communication from a critical point of view. The basis of his work is to question and explore various significances and values in contemporary life. In recent years, his research into the situations of multi-culturalism have resulted in art works in various media. Often he makes installations where the different media add different layers, which interact and resonate to form complex constellations of meaning.

Recent works deal with issues of communication and multicultural phenomena in cities and rural areas around the world. He often conducts long-term fieldwork research prior to an exhibition. For Dialogue, between 1996 and 1999 Iwai filmed footage that records more than 60 languages spoken in multicultural cities in Europe and Asia. Iwai attempts to represent and reconstruct local communities or traditions in a contemporary way utilising a range of media including sound, text, video and installation. His work has been exhibited in Brisbane, Perth, London, Rotterdam, Aarhus, Stuttgart, Milan, Toronto, Havana, Bangkok and many cities in Japan. He has been involved in organizing a number of projects and educational workshops for people of all ages. He is currently lecturing at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

Robin Rimbaud – UK (Scanner)
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Scanner - British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations of the experimental terrain have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen.

Scanner is committed to working with cutting edge practitioners and has
collaborated with artists from every imaginable genre: musicians Bryan Ferry, Radiohead and Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet and Merce Cunningham and Random Dance companies, composers Michael Nyman and Luc Ferrari, and artists Mike Kelley, Derek Jarman, Carsten Nicolai and Douglas Gordon. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sound art, producing concerts, compositions, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. In 2004 his Sound Surface work was the first ever Tate Modern sound-art commission and is currently producing Night Haunts for Artangel for 2006-2007, whilst sound-designing a new car horn for the USA. He has performed and created works in many of the world’s most prestigious spaces including SFMOMA USA, Hayward Gallery London, Pompidou Centre Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Tate Modern London and the Royal Opera House London. His work has been presented throughout the United States, Asia, Australia and Europe.

Melati Suryodarmo - INDONESIA

Melati Suryodarmo's performances are concerned with cultural, social and political aspects of life which she articulates through her psychological and physical body. Her performances combine a highly arresting physicality with sharp confidence and sensuality. Suryodarmo combines her own spiritual experiences with a comparative study of spirituality in Javanese tradition, Islam, Buddhism and Christianity. She believes that spirituality in the world of visual arts is necessary to experience the surrounding environment, particularly during a time when we are beset by political and economic disasters.

Melati Suryodarmo was born in Surakarta Indonesia and lives and works in Braunschweig, Germany. She graduated in International Relations and Political Sciences in Bandung, Indonesia before moving to Germany in 1994 to study at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste Braunschweig with Marina Abramovic. She completed her Meisterschule in 2002 in Performance Art. Melati Suryodarmo has participated in various international performance festivals and exhibitions in Europe including the 4th International Performance Festival Odense, Denmark; Brrr, Porto, Portugal; VV2 at the 50th Venice Biennale; Marking The Territory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.

"I intend to touch the fluid border between the body and its environment through my art works. I aim to create a concentrated level of intensity without the use of narrative structures. Talking about politics, society or psychology makes no sense to me if the nerves are not able to digest the information. I love it when a performance reaches a level of factual absurdity."