Abigail Portwin (NSW)

Abigail Portwin is an interdisciplinary artist working across the mediums of short film, video installation and performance art. With a foundation in the physicality of movement, Abi has received a broad awareness of the body through dance related practices including Body Mind Centering, contact improvisation and contemporary dance, as well as Iyengar yoga. Completing an Honours degree in Time Based Art, Abi combines her knowledge and experience of the body and movement in new media projects. This investigation has led her to solo work and collaborations with various artists, musicians and movement practitioners including Stalker, Dean Walsh, Alice Cummins and Nalina Wait. Her physical theatre vocation has led her to extensive touring through Australia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. As well as working as a freelance video editor and camera person, she is a founding member and performer with Stand Tall, an innovative performance company, specialising in stilts, stilt acrobatics, UV and fire shows.

Bronwyn Turnbull (WA)

Bronwyn is a performer who is, herself, a hybrid work. She began her
professional career showing off with children’s pantomimes and physical
theatre in Perth in the early 90’s. This naturally led her to Japan for a
number of years where she trained in Butoh with Kazuo Ohno and many other
life shattering greats. While there, she received a generous Japanese
Government scholarship to learn Noh with Kanze Hideo, and make a short film
for her honours thesis in Japanese Performance, Murdoch University. Then, as
she was already very big in Japan, Bronwyn decided to run away to Perth and
join the circus. She trained in tissue with Bizircus, and is still receiving
severe hoop discipline from Australia’s queen of hoopla, Kareena Oats.

Bronwyn enjoys drawing on her varied background to create her own chow mien
solo shows. Remembering Recipies, La Mama, 1995, Nandai! John Bull,
Harajuku, 1997, Hmm Theory, PICA, 2004. and Monkey Magic Cockatoo Island Festival, 2005. (Not included here are many untitled and unpaid grovel
sessions at various galleries and open spaces.)

Bronwyn’s hybrid art collaborations include a two week residency at
Performance Space with digital artists, Lalila, resulting in Cyclcing
Hildegard 2002, a stint at the Australian Embassy Tokyo, then the Arrhus
Festival in Denmark with Japanese group Gekkidan Kaitaisha 2003, creating
Bodies at War and Tokyo Rose at the Bakery, Perth, 2004. Most recently,
Bronwyn coordinated live performances for the New Media Art Gallery at
Sydney’s Cockatoo Island Festival.

Sarah Rodigari (VIC)

Sarah is a Melbourne based performance maker. Her work explores the relationships between physicality and sound in live performance by creating immersive environments within a site-specific context. Sarah has worked as Assistant Director to Richard Murphett and Lisa Shelton on the Inhabited Woman and collaborated with Chris Kohn on Black Swan of Trespass as dramaturg and lighting designer. In 2004 Sarah created Lonesome Cowboy at Federation Square for the Next Wave Festival. Sarah is a collaborative member of Mimic Mass, performing at the opening of ‘Liquid Architecture in Melbourne and Newcastle's ‘Electrofringe’ during 2004, and currently developing a new project – Stationary. In 2005 Sarah participated in an international artists exchange project – Strangers and Intimacy with Reader Performance Company, a six-month collaboration supported by West Space in Melbourne, and Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Art. Sarah is an honours graduate from Victorian college of Arts.

Jodi Rose (NSW)

Jodi is a nomadic writer and conceptual sound artist. Originally from Sydney, Australia she is now engaged in travelling the world recording the sound of bridges to create Singing Bridges global networked performance and series of compositions based on the sound of vibrations in bridge cables. Jodi studied Sculpture, Performance and Installation at Sydney College of the Arts and was Australia Council NMAB - ABC Radio National Radiophonic Artist in Residence 2004, producing a feature and compositions based on Australian bridges for broadcast on Radio Eye and Classic FM, and Archipelago‚ program about ISEA for The Night Air. Her work has recently been exhibited in Helsinki for Pixelache Electronic Arts Festival 2004 & 2005; in Copenhagen at Overgaden Sound Festival; broadcast on ääniradio 2.0 Helsinki, Furthernoise Resonance FM, London; Real Ambient WDR Cologne & WNYC Next Big Thing. Jodi released Singing Bridges: Vibrations and Variations a CD of bridge compositions with remixes by widely renowned international and local artists working in experimental sound and electronic music. Jodi is currently working on extending professional networks and collaborations with artists in Australia, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Lithuania, Hungary, Spain, Thailand and America; and creating future manifestations of the Global Bridge Symphony.

www.singingbridges.net

Gareth Jenkins (NSW)

Gareth Sion Jenkins BA, MSc (Psyc), BCA (Hons 1): Gareth completed a Master
of Science degree in Psychology in 1994. After completing a Bachelor of
Creative Arts degree with 1st class honours in 2003 he commenced doctoral
studies. He is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Creative Writing
at the University of Wollongong where he also teaches poetic writing.
Creatively Gareth specialises in fractured narratives which aim to blend
poetry, prose and digital media. He performs and produces sound and visual
works to complement his text-based creations. His poetry has been accepted
for publication by an experimental literary journal based in Berlin and San
Francisco. His multi-media works have been included in numerous festivals
and projects around Australia.

His theoretical work focuses on authors who have experienced madness. He
will present his literary paper, “Reality: A ‘Relatively’ Private Anagram”,
at the Greek conference, “Madness and Creativity”, in May 2005. In June
Gareth will present a selection of his recent creative work (text &
multi-media) at “Great Writing 2005: International Creative Writing
Conference” at the University of Portsmouth, England.

For the last three years Gareth has been formulating and running creative
workshops incorporating writing, visual art and drama in a Youth Work
capacity.

Yana Taylor (NSW)

Since 2000, Yana has worked with the shifting group of performers and performance makers who make up Version 1.0; as performer and performance dramaturg (aka ‘outside eye’) in such projects as The Second Last Supper, 841 minutes and A Certain Maritime Incident (CMI). She comes to this work with a diverse background in movement, informed by both techniques -Classical, Corporeal and Object Mime, Laban, Suzuki, and improvisational practices.
Over the last decade since migrating from Adelaide to Sydney, Yana has been movement lecturer, director and administrator in the Performance degree at University of Western Sydney, Nepean and worked actively as Chair of Urban Theatre Projects. Yana has kept abreast with the Contemporary Performance Theatre field in Sydney since the beginning of the 90’s and has been involved in research about Suzuki Training and its relationship to devising practices in this local scene. Yana is currently a Phd candidate at Sydney University Centre for Performance Studies.

Ingrid Voorendt (VIC)

Ingrid is a performance maker, working as a director and devisor. Her work is collaborative and draws on dance theatre processes. Ingrid has worked with a range of collaborators and companies in many contexts. She is a former associate director of Restless Dance Company and her recent work includes projects with Jason Sweeney, Unreasonable Adults, The Border Project, Rawcus, Back to Back, Maude Davey and Astrid Pill. In 2004 Ingrid made 'Babushka', a hybrid work at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Sarah Waterson (NSW)

Sarah Waterson is an installation/multiple media artist, whose work deals with the influence of electronic technologies on subjectivities. Over the past fifteen years she has exhibited her installations/interactive environments and digital works both nationally within Australia and internationally, including Germany, Finland and the USA. Waterson has worked to incorporate new technologies into live performance, including contain.her (a collaboration with Heather Grace Jones, Anna Sabiel and Brad Miller), Internalised Cities (collaboration with Anna Sabiel) and memo- a virtual environment that extended the conceptual concerns of a live performance. Waterson has participated in many online events including: ID_Runners live media performance (Francesca Di Rimini and Agnese Trocchi), Artspace, Sydney (Part of the Australian TILT event, Oct, 2001). Waterson was also a participating artist in the Brandon Project, Guggenhiem Museum, New York, USA (1999).

Her recent interactive electronic installations have included: subscapePROOF (collaboration with Kate Richards, Australian Centre for the Moving Image 04), subscapeBALTIC (collaboration with Kate Richards, ISEA2004) Mapping E~Motion (exhibited at The National Gallery of Victoria, The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia and SoundWatch , Artspace, New Zealand) incorporated electronic circuits to "mimic" the effect of pheremones on nipple erection, and trans.mute (a Sydney City Council public art commission involving web enabled rubbish bins transmitting ideas of space and place via a bulletin board and voice/text translation) amongst many others. Her current interests include interactive environments for performance and data mapping techniques. Waterson currently lectures in digital media, and is the Head of Program for Design at the School of Communication, Design and Media, University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Tim Webster (VIC)

Tim Webster is a new media artist. His works are a representation of the universe in its ‘simple complexity’ through a video camera and a projector. Selected projects include Forward to Nature (ongoing) with Steve Law, On the Common (Make it Now Festival 03) and Die Kitchen (Floating Point 04). During 2004, Tim performed regularly at Segmentation Fault (Loop) and was a featured artist for 3 Feather Nest held at Australian Centre for the Moving Image in collaboration with the Melbourne Community Gamelan. Tim has been a panellist and performer at ‘Electrofringe’ in Newcastle for the past three years, speaking on topics including DVD and video production, through to his own approach to video performance processes. Tim is currently engaged in an exploration of the physical aspects of multi media performance examining both the physical and conceptual ‘movement’ that occurs as transactions between artist, audience, place and space in video performance. Tim is an honours graduate from Deakin University.

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