Caroline Daish (SA)

Caroline is a performer who has consistently worked for Australian theatre
for youth companies including Terrapin Puppet theatre, Salamanca theatre,
Patch Theatre Co, Urban Myth and Restless Dance Co. In 1999 she toured in
Legs on the Wall’s production Under the Influence in Australia, NZ, Belgium
and Holland. It was at this time Caroline began her association with
Belgium.

In Belgium Caroline performed for Espace Catastrophe inflatable circus show
Turbulences which toured Belgium festivals. She also received funding from
Arts SA to study puppetry in France with Alain Duverne (les guignols de
l’info) and was part of the 2002 Rosas Summer Studios, researching dance and
theatre improvisation techniques. During her time in Belgium Caroline
collaborated in dance video projects. In 2001 her very short film was
selected as part of The Place’s 1 minute wanders Dance on Screen Festival,
London, which toured Europe with the British Council’s Dance on Screen
showcase series. Recent work includes artist in residency in Maubeuge,
France, which was a collaboration with a hip-hop artist, conducting physical
theatre workshops and culminated in a street performance with 15 students.
From 1995-1997 Caroline was Associate Director of Restless Dance Company.
During this time she was director/co-director of 4 new shows including The
Flight, a collaboration with Liam Steel (DV8). Her co-founded company soft
crash’s Trust In Me production has toured to schools in 5 Australian states
in the last 3 years.

In September Caroline was a collaborator and instigator of creative
development workshops conducted by Ingrid Voorendt in Belgium as the initial
stage of Twin Justice, a dance theatre digital image project.

Lawrence English (QLD)

Lawrence is writer, composer and artist based in Brisbane. Working across a broad range of media art forms, Lawrence’s work is eclectic and characterises a long-term exploration of collage, audio/visual environments and found sound. Lawrence is Interested in the potential of seemingly unrelated musical forms, from experimental soundscapes and free improvisation, to processed beat works and concrete-influenced compositions. His back catalogue spans a dynamic range of styles and sounds. London’s Time Out referred to his output as ‘ambient twisted soundscapes and challenging sonic scree’. Transit, the latest work under the I/O moniker, sees Lawrence script his sound-pieces using an array of field recordings collected abroad in Japan, the UK, Thailand, Vietnam and Australia. From these recordings, Transit’s sound tapestries – a combination of rich textures and humming sub bass tones cushioning a blend of organic and digital elements - have been created.

Outside of his recording and art commissions, 2004 will see Lawrence continue his work with the newly established EMIT streaming studio at QUT. He will curate a range of events including fabrique at Brisbane Powerhouse and also continues to issue records through his multi-arts organisation ::ROOM40::.

Alexandra Gillespie (QLD)

Alexandra is a new media artist practising in the area of interactive installation. Her work investigates themes of place and space, movement and perception and the experience of the everyday in a dialogue that invites participation. She has exhibited at the Queensland Science Centre, the Institute of Modern Art and at festivals such as Livid and Stage X. Currently she is in the process of researching and developing an installation, examining the motion after effect to be exhibited at the opening of the Creative Industries precinct in Brisbane.

Alexandra has researched, created and exhibited video/interactive installations since 1998. Previous works include interactive design on the Track project produced by Arterial 2003 and funded by the Australia Council New Media Arts board; Reflections ,2002, an installation based around the phenomena of reflections of sound and light and the process of internal reflections or thoughts; The Photo Proximity Hanger, an interactive sticker booth exhibited at Stage X, 1999 and Spanning, a digital video study of butterfly genera exhibited in Sciart ‘99 at the Queensland Science Centre.

Jody Kingston (QLD)

Jody is a composer/ sound artist and researcher currently working on a PhD in sound/ music and interdisciplinary performance-making at the Queensland University of Technology. Her practice focuses on the creation of sound for live performance pieces or events that work with fundamental performance elements of energy, presence and gesture. She is drawn to intimate styles of presentation where audience and performer relationships are intermixed, blurred or informal, such as cabaret, street performance and circus and also to ritual spaces where the audience/ performer roles are transgressed.

Jody graduated from the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music in 1998. In 1999, she undertook a three month Wilderness Residency to Maria Island National Park to create an aural map of the island using digitally recording environmental samples from over 50 physical locations on the island. Since 2000, Jody’s musical practice has grown to incorporate performance-making in devised and improvised theatre contexts as well as developing solo and collaborative installation-based works. In 2002, she worked as Venue Manager for is theatre ltd to establish is@backspace as Hobart’s dedicated contemporary performance venue. Jody became a founding member of Hobart-based improvised performance ensemble Red Message Service.
Jody’s most recent performance work, Island of Abandoned Pleasures, is a short, sound driven performance that explores the edges of female desire. The work was presented in venue foyers preceding softcore inc’s production of Wendy McPhee’s Private Dancer. Both works toured to Hobart and Launceston in August 2003 and then returned for a short season in Brisbane in September 2003.

Kerrin Rowlands (SA)

Kerrin is a performance artist who has recently returned to Adelaide from
Madrid Spain. Her practice explores identity- (cultural-social-personal) and
uses specific spaces, objects and the body as its core. She holds a Bachelor
of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts.

After graduating Kerrin freelanced in various dance projects in Melbourne,
then taught dance extensively in schools in country Victoria followed by
cabaret tours of Korea and Japan. On arriving in Barcelona she taught for
Company Victor Salas at La Caldera and taught movement and composition
workshops for MUTIS Teatro, Madrid.

Kerrin created and performed REMOVED in 1999. In 2000 she produced in
collaboration with video artist Michel Rolland and painter De Quiros a full
length work BodyAPart for the Sala Mix Season Fuencarral, Madrid. In 2001
BodyAPart was selected for Las Piezas Cortes Hechas y Deshechas, a season
for new multi-disciplinary performance works organised by Estudio 3 and Sala
Cuarta Pared Madrid. In 2002 she collaborated and performed with Live Art
and Installation artist Myk Henry in OUTSIDE IN Amsterdam and Geneva.
As Australian corresponant and writer she attended the multi-disciplinary
arts festivals Deviaciones (Madrid), Situaciones (Cuenca), Festival Arscenic
(Lausanne) Switzerland Contemporary Dance Festival (Lausanne). In July 2003
she attended the summer Live Art residencey at La Casa Encendida ˆNew
Contemporary Arts Centre Madrid run by Juan Dominguez and Cuqui Jerez and
created Rastro.

In August Kerrin will join Para//elo in a 4 week residency OUTSIDE WORLD
with Jason Sweeney, Stephen Noonan and Claudia Raddatz.

Sarah Jane Pell (WA)

Sarah is a current PhD (Visual Arts) student proposing ‘Aquabatics as new works of Live Art’ at ECU. She has written, directed and performed many live art works including Removed Materials, (VCA Gallery, 1995); Many-To-Many World, (National Gallery of Victoria,) The Many-To-Many World 2, (Hotel Sofitel, 1997); Breakfast, (The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 1999); Training, (The National Review of Live Art, Midlands Railway Workshop, 2002); Second Nature: Second Skin; (The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow); Under Current: POAA, (Perth Institute for Contemporary Art); Under.Current II, (Moores Building Art Gallery, Fremantle); and Under.Current III, (Busselton Jetty, 2003). Solo exhibitions include Substance & Transparency, (National Gallery of Victoria,1998) and Rapture, (Spectrum Gallery, WA, 2002).

Sarah has become a fully qualified ADAS P1 & 2R Commercial Diver in support of her underwater performance research receiving significant media attention including an ABC feature aired to over 20 countries in 2003. Her work has been described as ‘a fusion of visual installation and conceptual choreography’ New Territories UK 2003 and ‘Utterly Unique’ The Australian 2002.

Anne Walton (WA)

Anne has been a practising visual artist for 8 years, with prior careers as a lawyer and chef. She has a Degree in Visual Art from the South Australian School of Art (1998), a Master of Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art (2000) and was a 1998 recipient of the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. Her work has appeared in New York, Glasgow, Vienna, Helsinki, Nagoya, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Alice Springs, Newcastle and regional Western Australia.

Anne came to Western Australia from Adelaide in September 2002 to present works at PICA, spECtrUm, the Artrage Festival in Perth, and Geraldton Arts & Cultural Development Council (ACDC); also to do residencies with Perth Central Metropolitan TAFE and Geraldton Regional Art Gallery. She has been a sessional teacher in Geraldton - at ECU's Regional Campus and at Nagle Catholic College, as well as working with Geraldton Regional Art Gallery's outreach program, delivering video workshops to remote schools in WA's Mid-west. Anne is now based in Perth, working solo and in collaboration with Perth sound artist, Cat Hope, in an audio-visual duo called cAVity. They have worked together on residencies, performances, installations and research & development of new work. Contingent on funding, they will be participating in ISEA2004 in Scandinavia in August 2004, artists-in-residence at Performance Space, Sydney in early 2005 and presenting new work at PICA in 2005, in collaboration with regional WA artists.

Anne’s practice spans video, performance, installation and experimental writing. She tends to work with the low-tech end of digital technology, resisting the constraints of the conventional screen, computer-generated effects and electronic virtuosity.

Layla Vardo (VIC)

In 1998, Layla Vardo finished a bachelor in arts-media at The University of
New South Wales. Layla has worked in music industry production and public
relations since 1997, and in theatre production and performance
since 1995. Since 2000, Layla worked as manager for mik la vage and has
assisted him with the creative direction of his live performance work. In
2000, Layla began developing the visual and conceptual aspects of ŒOtis‚ -a
multimedia performance work based on an instrument invented by mik la vage.

In 2001 with mik la vage, she co-founded idioSync - a multimedia production
team concerned with experimental performance work. idioSync has developed The Wastemakers in residence at Performance Space in 2002 & 2003, released Future Conduit -an independent album by mik la vage, produced a number of short screen based works, performed at A2D in the 2002 Adelaide Fringe, Electrofringe and The Bellingen Global Carnival where she also performed a 5 hour live video composition in 2002. idioSync has advanced plans for future development of both The Wastemakers and Œotis and has a number of other projects in the pipeline.

Mik la vage ( VIC )

Innovative composer, instrument maker, sound designer and installation
artist, mik has made a name for himself for his work with recycled/reused
materials over a number of years. mik works in a diverse range of fields including opera, contemporary dance, electronic music film and installation. mik recently released his debut solo album of music based on his otis junk metal instrument, to critical acclaim. He recently completed co-producing The Wastemakers, an interactive theatrical installation by idioSync. The Australia Council supported both these projects. Mik’s work has been featured nationally on Triple J, ABC Classic FM & SBS TV’s Alchemy. He has performed as part of the Next Wave Festival, Melbourne Festival, Bellingen Global Carnival, The Electro-fringe Festival (NSW), A2D@ Adelaide Fringe 2002, Womadelaide, and has collaborated in a number of independent contemporary dance works by Louise Taube and Company In Space. mik recently completed the sound design for Each Grain of Rice, an independent Australian documentary.

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