Sean Bacon (NSW)

Sean Bacon studied video, graduating with 1st class honours in 1998. He has exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, among others. In 2000 Sean had a four-month residency at the Cite Des Arts Paris, (2000-2). He worked with the French dance Company Harmaat and their collaboration Nobody Nevermind opened the performance section of the prestigious Venice Biennial (2001).
Other works include a solo show, Collective (Cast Gallery, Hobart); Brilliant Refraction (Cube 37, Melbourne) numerous collaborative performance pieces, including, Sleeplessness (Performance Space 2003) and Y-Smith (Performance Space, 2005), The Wages of Spin (Performance Space, 2005). In October 2005, Sean undertook a three-month residency at the Australia Council’s Green Street Studio in New York City.

Felicity Bott (WA)

Felicity Bott after training at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Felicity worked with several professional dance companies and organisations. She is an experienced freelance choreographer, director and dance educator and has a BA from the University of Western Australia (English and Anthropology). Felicity is co-founder of CORPORA, a small inter-disciplinary performance collective that facilitates her independent work. She was Artistic Director of STEPS Youth Dance Company 2000-2003. During this time she further developed STEPS contemporary dance projects and initiated multi-arts programs for upper primary students, youth and emerging artists. Felicity was appointed Artistic Director of the state-funded professional dance Buzz Dance Theatre in January 2004 and during that year created three new works for the company. In 2005 Felicity also created PreTender (June’05) and RabbiT (Sept’05) for Buzz Dance Theatre. Both works have met with critical and popular success and will tour interstate and internationally in 2006 and 2007. During the Perth International Arts Festival in 2006 Felicity performed in the premiere of The Drover’s Wives. This interdisciplinary work was devised by theatre director Sally Richardson in collaboration with the five performers and other artform collaborators and proved to be a festival highlight.

Shaaron Boughen (QLD)

Shaaron Boughen lectures in QUT, is the Brisbane reviewer for The Australian and has choreographed over 30 works, receiving grants from The Australia Council, Arts Queensland and QUT. She has worked as an independent artist with the Cherry Herring Collective from 1996 – 2000 and more recently with Emergency 2001-2002. Her main focus of work lies in the scholarship of interdisciplinarity through Creative Practice. Shaaron’s current practice is drawing from and developing her interest in architecture, digital mediums and visual arts. She has an extensive design background from theatre works to product launches to pyrotechnics and has designed costumes for works by many leading Australian choreographers.

Scot Cotterell (TAS)

Scot Cotterell is a hybrid-media artist, writer and curator working across the fields of performance, installation, audiovisual composition and still imagery. Scot has performed and presented work at numerous large-scale national festivals including Liquid Architecture and ElectroFringe, been published in Australian Art Collector, Un Magazine, and theprogram.net.au, and featured in independent film, theatre and television both in Australia and Europe. He has curated audiovisual performance and installation for Galleries and Theatres, and been broadcast on radio in Amsterdam, Japan and Australia.He lives in Hobart with his three children.

Rakini Devi (NSW)

Rakini Devi trained in Indian Classical Dance. She began her exploration into cross-cultural dance techniques with her company The Atman Project, later The Kalika Dance Company. Rakini has performed in Tokyo, New York, Toronto, San Francisco, Cape Town, Madrid and Las Palmas Canary Islands. Dance awards include an Arts WA Creative Development award, an Asialink residency in Tokyo, and an Australia Council Dance Fellowship. Rakini’s work can be described as hybrid theatre/performance art. She often includes text, her own visual art, film, and original new music/sound. She has collaborated with artists from diverse practices who share her interest in creating art that challenges our notions on race, culture, social issues and new technologies.
For a more detailed profile, with images and video, please visit her website www.rakinidevi.iinet.net.au/

Alexandra Gillespie (QLD)

Alexandra Gillespie is an artist who works with installation, video projection and technology. She is interested in exploring the intersection of virtual and actual space and responding to existing sites. Alexandra’s recent work is concerned with integrating media and architecture, and how this synthesis can be used to speak of cultural and individual identity.
Alexandra has researched, created and exhibited video/interactive installations since 1998. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Alexandra holds a B.A. in Media Studies from the University of Queensland and a Masters degree in Communication Design from the Queensland University of Technology. She is currently a sessional lecturer in Digital Art and New Media at Queensland College of Art and PhD candidate in Visual Arts at QUT.

Carlos Gomes

Carlos Gomes graduated in Fine Arts at Belas Artes 1990 in Sao Paulo and MA in Theatre at UNSW 2005. Carlos studied directing and acting at CPT center for theatre research in Brazil and physical theatre and dance in the UK. He created his company Boi de Mamao in the UK, touring Europe with several shows. Since migrating to Australia in 1994 he has collaborated as director/designer/dramaturg and performer for many companies including; Sidetrack, Legs on the Wall, Salamanca Theatre etc. Carlos is co-founder of Theatre Kantanka. Since its inception the ensemble has maintained a commitment to dynamic physical practice and innovative visual design. Kantanka`s productions are large scale and site specific and engaged with texts from diverse origins. Carlos most recent works are Inanna´s Decent and Fearless Nadia (Kantanka), The book keeper of Rua dos Douradoures and Sanctus (Sidetrack).

Elissa Goodrich (VIC)

Elissa Goodrich graduated from VCA in 1998 and is a percussionist, composer and sound designer working in contemporary music, theatre & dance. Original theatre productions include: director Bagryana Popov’s: White Neda (1998), Stories from the Hidden City (2002), Subclass 26a (2005), Deborah Leiser-Moore (dir.) Exile & Ecstasy (2004), The Torch Projects Home… (2005). Original dance productions include: Ilan Abrahams, 1803 (2005), Josie Daw, Frosted (1996) Downloading (1998), Ru Atma, Pulang Kumbali (2005). Elissa co-founded Slide into Sound (1996 - ) with visual artist Gabby O’Connor, producing site-specific performance/public-art installations including; Collision, Public office / CBD tram shelters (2000), …scape, Melbourne Town Hall (2000), Awakening …, Performance Space (2000). Elissa’s autonomous hybrid-arts projects (as deviser/director/musician) include: Invisible Cities I & II, Hawthorn Town Hall (2001 & 2002) Binded Flight, Dancehouse (2003) Golden Chains, La Mama Theatre (2005). Discography includes: Phil Bywater’s Buried Treasure, Looking Up Newmarket music (2003), Wendy Rule’s Lotus Eaters Shock (2003), Judith Durham / Male Welsh Choir Live in Concert, Musicoast (2003), Shannon-Goodrich ensemble’s Crossing Over, Newmarket music (2005).

Regina Heilmann (NSW)

Regina Heilmann was a performer with Sidetrack Performance Group (1990- 1997). In 1998 she co-created and performed a room with no air with Deborah Leiser (direction, Nikki Heywood.) This work toured to the International Festival of Women’s Performance in New Zealand (1999) and opened ‘Reckonings’ at Performance Space (2000). Regina is regular performer with Nigel Kellaway and the Opera Project Inc and a key performer/contributor on Nikki Heywood’s Brute project. Regina has directed new works for the Multi-Cultural Theatre Alliance (for Carnviale) and REM Theatre in collaboration with the Museum of Sydney. She has directed for Freewheels Theatre (Newcastle), PYT (Fairfield) and Critical Mass (Wollongong). In 2002 she was appointed co-Artistic Director of PACT Youth Theatre.

Mayu Kanamori (NSW)

Mayu Kanamori is a Japanese born interdisciplinary artist based in Sydney. She is the creator and director of The Heart of the Journey, and has received a commendation for United Nations Media Peace Awards (2000) for its radio program on ABC Radio National. She is also the recipient of the 2001 Broome NAIDOC Non Indigenous Reconciliation Award for the performance The Heart of the Journey, which has toured to New Zealand, Singapore, Japan and throughout Australia in arts festivals.
Her radio feature Chika was finalist for 2004 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, and its corresponding stage production, CHIKA premiered at the CUB Malthouse in Melbourne earlier this year.
Mayu's visual works have been chosen as finalist for 2005 Harries National Digital Awards, 2005 Olive Cotton National Photographic Portrait Awards, and 2005 Conrad Jupiter’s National Art Prize. Her other works exhibited include RAIHAI, Story Beyond the Fence, Unseen Faces of Japan, Sugao no Australia in both Australia and Japan.

George Khut (NSW)

George Khut (NSW) lives in Sydney and works primarily with sound and video installation. For the past three years, he has developed a series of participatory works (Cardiomorphologies v.1 and v.2 in collaboration with John Tonkin, Lizzie Muller, and Greg Turner) that invite audiences to experience and reflect on their own embodiment and self-representations as revealed to them by the transformation of their own breath and heart rate patterns. He has worked on several community cultural development projects, and is interested in revisiting this genre as an extension of his research (with Lizzie Muller) into audience experiences of his artworks, and the interesting reflections and disclosures that arise from them.