Melbourne Arts Festival
I'm in Melbourne indulging myself in some truly amazing international art work. From NO SENSE to NONSENSE and it's all good. That's been the motto for the last week. It was great to reconnect with the group Forced Entertainment and see their inspiring work 'Bloody Mess'. To see how they deconstruct the narrative form of story telling and restructure a very rehearsed, entertaining and moving mess, achieved through improvisation sessions in the creation process. Whaaw, I loved it and it's everything I believe in performing art should be about, to engage an audience and to be with one in the space. An other fascinating group is Lone Twin from Britain. 2 guys who do stuff like line dancing for 12 hours or walk back and forth over a bridge for 18 hours in Norway or trying to make a cloud with their bodyheat. There is so much to do and see and I find myself running between venues to catch it all. I just remembered that I forgot to have dinner. Ahh well, next time! This is a fantastic indulgence, but my body does not seem to be very keen to adjust to the cold and I'm struggling, while some city folk walk around in T-shirts and shorts. BRRRRRRR......
Electrofringe 2005
Hey I'm in New Castle attending the Electrofringe. There is all these amazing workshops and discussion panels with national and international artists creating sound and vision using cutting edge technology and experimenting. Constantly pushing the boundaries of what might be labeled as music or video art. I was part of the 6 strong NT panel to do a presentation on our works in remote Darwin. I also caught up with Jodie, Gareth and Scott who I met in Adelaide during the TPS4 Lab. Also caught up with Malcolm Smith who has just returned from an Asialink residency in Indonesia. I did this one fantastic workshop of modifying toy instruments to create new interesting sounds. All very inspiring stuff and lots of food for thought. My brain is full at the moment.
Fusion strength 05
For the last two weeks I was part of a project called Fusion strength 05 in Darwin. A cross cultural exchange between 3 Singaporian artists and 3 Australian artists. It was great to have this exchange with these 5 amazing artists, each coming from different artistic disciplines. On Saturday we did a performance piece at 24Hr Art gallery, which was great. The audience visited each of us and had to participate and interact with certain objects or where asked certain questions while sitting on a toilet seat. Lots of fun for young and old!
Angels of Gravity
This is my first letter in my blog so here we go. I have just finished working on a show called "Angels of Gravity" with Tracks Dance Theatre for the Festival of Darwin 2005. We used movable screens in the show with live size projection in order to try and blend in the virtual preformance with the live dancing. I created all the video art and composed 5 pieces of music. The feedback of the audience was mostly very positive but there was one feedback of a lady who responded as follows: '...a dancer in red underpants squirming around on truly bad noise.' I'm forever greatfull for her feedback as i now create my ever first blog with the name trulybadnoise. I might even produce my first album under this name!! Who knows? Definatly lots of food for thought and always remember we can't please everybody with our creations.
