John Gillies
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John Gillies has worked across video, sound and performance since 1980. He has participated in a range of major exhibitions within Australia and internationally, including Recent Australian Video Installation, (ACCA, Melbourne, 1986), Australian Perspecta, (AGNSW, Sydney, 1991), Strangers in Paradise, (Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, 1992), and Spectrascope, (Performance Space, 2000).

John’s video work has been extensively presented in international screening programs and festivals including Vídeo Brasil, Ars Electronica, Arhuus Video Festival, London Film Festival, Video Positive, Sound Basis, New York Video Festival and World Wide Video Festival amongst many others. John has curated a number of video programs, including Mixed Bodies: Recent Australian Video for Festival da Imagem em Movemento (Museo de Arte Moderno da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, 1998).

Clare Grant
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Clare Grant is a freelance performer, director and dramaturg and is currently Lecturer in Performance at the University of NSW, where she teaches writing for a wide range of performance genres and the devising of new work.

Clare performed with KISS theatre in Europe, 1983-1985, and was a founding member of The Sydney Front, touring Australia, Europe and Hong Kong. She was Artistic Director of Playworks from 1993-1997, and 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). She has collaborated with John Gillies on 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). Clare 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 Evans’ Pussyboy at Belvoir St Theatre in 2002.

Lyndal Jones

Lyndal Jones is a video/sound/performance/installation artist, and has exhibited and performed in Birmingham, Amsterdam, Berlin, Venice, Tokyo, Kwangju and this year in Beijing.

Lyndal was Co-ordinator of Sculpture at the School of Art and Culture at RMIT from 1999–2000, and Co-ordinator of Movement and Head of Performance Making for the School of Drama at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. She has been artist-in-residence at numerous institutions in Australia and overseas, including ARTEC in London from 1998–2000 and Banff in Canada. Lyndal is also a Feldenkrais practitioner.

Marianne Weems
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Marianne Weems is a co-founder of The Builders Association and has directed all of their productions. Over the last 15 years in New York, she has worked as an assistant director and dramaturg with Susan Sontag, Jan Cohen-Cruz, Richard Foreman, and many others. From 1988-1994, she was assistant director and dramaturg for The Wooster Group. During that time she also co-directed Ron Vawter's solo performance Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, and co-produced the film version with Good Machine, executive produced by Jonathan Demme.

Since 1994, with a growing circle of artists, Marianne Weems has collaborated on seven large-scale theatre projects, including Master Builder, (1994), The White Album, (1995), Imperial Motel (Faust),(1996), Jump Cut (Faust), (1997), Jetlag, (1998-2000) with Diller + Scofidio, Xtravaganza, (2000-01), and Alladeen, (2002) with motiroti. The company has also created two installations. Its work has been presented widely in Europe and the U.S. at venues including the Barbican Centre, London, Trafo Theater, Budapest, Kaaitheater, Brussels, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and will be presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in December 2003.

John Cleater
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John Cleater is a founding member of the Builders Association and has created designs for most of their cross media productions. From 1998-2003, he worked with the architectural firm Asymptote, where he was project architect for clients including the New York Stock Exchange, Documenta XI, BMW Headquarters, The Guggenheim Virtual Museum, and Carlos Meile. With Hani Rashid, at the Columbia University School of Architecture, he oversaw the creation of three large-scale interactive installations in the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2000. Other recent work includes: Jury Selection for the Highline Competition in Manhattan; a proposal for a wireless network overlay for Queens Plaza, and the installation, Emergency Exit at Artist Space in New York, as part of the critically acclaimed exhibition Digital Mapping in Architecture. He has also worked on projects for Daniel Libeskind, Bernard Tschumi, Vito Acconci, I.M. Pei, and others. He holds a Masters degree from the Columbia University School of Architecture.

Teresa Crea
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Teresa Crea graduated in Film and Italian Studies at Flinders University and holds a Master of Arts in Contemporary Italian Poetry. In 1986, she won a scholarship to the National Academy of Dramatic Arts, (Silvio D’Amico) in Rome where she studied theatre direction.

Teresa was co founder of Doppio Teatro, (now para//elo Performance Company), Australia’s first professional bilingual theatre company and from 1991 has been its Artistic Director. She has written and devised many productions for the company, which received the Sydney Myer Performing Arts Award in 1994. The company’s productions have been performed nationally and internationally.

Teresa has also worked in television; radio and most recently live arts/new media producing work for SBS Television, ABC Radio, The State Theatre Company and Belvoir St Theatre. She is an active advocate for the arts and cultural diversity; has contributed to the development of national policy, forums and debates and has held pivotal positions on the Australia Council for the Arts, The Board of the Adelaide Festival of Arts and the ABC Arts Advisory Committee.

In 1995 she received the Federal Government’s inaugural Cultural Diversity in the Arts Award from the Prime Minister Paul Keating and in 2003 was awarded a Centenary Medal for her contribution to the arts and community.