Endings, Fragments of These Conversations Key Artistic Support and Management to Cultural Engagement
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Artistic Notes Insite Arts Arts House Presented by Arts House, Tamara Saulwick and Insite Arts When my son was three years old he came process with enormous generosity, trust and Insite Arts is an Australian independent Arts House presents contemporary arts across a fly on the floor. A dead fly lying on its grace. I thank each and every one of them. producer working with artists to initiate in programs encompassing performance, back. I picked it up by its little wing, opened It was a genuine privilege to hear their stories. ideas, develop and create art, and take art to festivals, live art, residencies and other the back door and threw it out into the winter audiences. As a producer, Insite Arts provides activities that nurture, support and stimulate night. My son, concerned about the welfare of In Endings, fragments of these conversations key artistic support and management to cultural engagement. We value work in the fly asked, ‘Mum, why did you throw the fly emerge from the old analogue technologies of artists’ projects and practices, collaborating which artists at different stages of their out the back?’. tape and vinyl. In working with these vintage with them from concept through to realisation. careers, as well as our diverse audiences and players, we hope to embrace the qualities communities, are actively involved in creating I said, ‘Because it was dead.’ Tamara Saulwick of unpredictability, fragility and decay that an imaginative, just and environmentally they bring to the piece and so resonate with Thank You ‘Won’t it be cold?’ he asked. sustainable global society. its overarching themes. In a culture where Tamara Saulwick expresses heartfelt thanks I said, ‘No it won’t be cold because it’s dead.’ death is rarely discussed candidly, Endings to Angharad and the team at Arts House for Arts House’s programs include two curated And I laughed. creates a collective holding place for this most the continued support of her work, and to public seasons of multidisciplinary work each inevitable of shared experiences – a place Freya and Insite Arts. Thanks also to James year. Approximately half of this work is selected Endings Then later, after climbing into bed: ‘Mum, will I within which multiple stories and perspectives through an Expression of Interest process. feel the cold when I’m dead?’ Savage, Miles O’Neil, Brienna Macnish, David can be voiced and evoked. Endings is a Murphy, Yoni Prior, John Cummings, Helen and We seek artists who are responding to the I said, ‘No you won’t feel the cold because... ’ homage to loved ones no longer living. Peter Murdoch, Milly, Chunky Move, Erin Milne, urgent issues of our time in imaginative and surprising ways, taking artistic risks and He said, ‘Mum, will I be able to see when I’m Tamara Saulwick Vanessa Chapple, Jo Talia, David Ricardo from Cut Record, Rachel Hatherley, and Max offering multiple ways for audiences to engage dead? How will I be able to speak? Where will with or co-author their work. you be when I’m dead? Mum? How will I find at Footscray TV & Hifi Service. And thanks to you when I’m dead?’ Michelle Heaven for her keen outside eye in For more information, please contact us these last days. on the details below. For my young son, the idea of death, of life Dedicated to Irving Saulwick, 25.4.1930 – 1.8.2012 Arts House, Endings has been supported by the Australian Government ending, was beyond imagination. Embedded 521 Queensberry Street through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and in his questions lies the very human desire North Melbourne VIC 3051 North Melbourne Town Hall advisory body; Besen Family Foundation; Creative Victoria; and to stay connected to loved ones. Always. In (03) 9322 3720 the City of Melbourne through Arts House. Commissioned by Performance Space and Arts House. some ways Endings is an extension of that, [email protected] Wed 13 – Sun 17 March 2015 and subsequent conversations with my son, artshouse.com.au 1hr, no interval artshouse.com.au my father and others. The work is built in part tamarasaulwick.com from a series of recorded conversations or Post-Show Q&A Thu 14, 8.40pm interviews that revolved around the general theme of endings and, in particular, that of life ending. The interview participants, many of whom are personal friends, entered into the artshousemelbourne @artshousemelb @artshouse Creative Team Biographies Concept, Text & Performance Tamara Saulwick Peter Knight at Melba Hall, with a 20-piece ensemble, investigating relationships between sound, George, Tristan Meecham, Chunky Move, Tamara Saulwick Concept, Text & Performance Sound Design, Composition & Operation and has played at the Fairfax Studio, Arts movement and words. From 1998 to 2014 Aphids, Nicola Gunn, Dario Vacirca, Ashley Sound Design, Composition & Operation Centre Melbourne; the Famous Spiegeltent; she was a Lecturer at Victoria University, Dyer, Torque Show, Tamara Saulwick, Arts Tamara Saulwick creates contemporary Multidisciplinary musician, Peter Knight, has Peter Knight the Meredith Music Festival; the Guggenheim Melbourne, where she supervised numerous House and Kristy Ayre. Together with real- performance works for theatres and gained wide acclaim for his eclectic integration Songwriting & Performance Paddy Mann Museum in Metz; and the ‘Music Apartment’ MA and PhD investigations in performance time motion graphics developer, Frieder public spaces. Building on over 20 years of jazz, world music and experimental Set & Lighting Design Ben Cobham festival in Fukuoka, Japan. His albums have and writing. Weiss, he recently designed and programmed experience, her individual practice has approaches. His work as both performer and (bluebottle) been selected as album of the week on radio the large scale real-time video graphics coalesced in recent years into a singular and composer is regularly featured in a range Dramaturgy Margaret Trail stations PBS, RRR, Radio National, 3CR and Harriet Oxley system for King Kong: The Musical. He compelling voice. Utilising digital, mobile of ensemble settings. He also composes for Costume Design Harriet Oxley RTR. In 2013, his most recent album, Slay Costume Design has also created video works for gallery and analogue technologies, with a particular theatre and creates sound installations. In Technical Management, Audio Engineering Me in My Sleep (Preservation), recorded in installation Global Creatures, and for Chunky emphasis placed on the role of sound in live 2013 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Harriet Oxley has recently designed & Operation Nick Roux Berlin with Nils Frahm, was shortlisted for the Move, Not Yet It’s Difficult and Next Wave performance, her works reflect on how we Australian Art Orchestra. Perpetually curious, costumes for Victorian Opera’s Into the Production Management & Operation Australian Music Prize. festival. His short film, Homemade, was as individuals connect, confront and interact his practice defies categorisation – indeed, Woods, Gideon Obarzanek’s L’Chaim for Emily O’Brien selected for Flickerfest International Short with one another. he works in the spaces between categories, Sydney Dance Company, Dislocate’s If These Producer Freya Waterson (Insite Arts) Ben Cobham (bluebottle) Film Festival (2009); and The Palindromist, a between genres and between cultures. He Walls Could Talk for Melbourne Festival, Tamara Saulwick’s work has toured nationally Set & Lighting Design short dance film, was selected for Cinedans Interviewees Christine Grace, Carolyn has developed an international following for and the VCA music theatre department’s Li’l and internationally, been adapted for radio, dance film festival in the Netherlands (2011). Hanna, David Wells, Faridah Whyte, Neil his work with nine albums in as many years, Together with its talented and valued staff, Abner. Her previous costume design credits received numerous nominations and awards, Cameron, Jane Hall, Hanspeter Horner, showcasing a diverse range of ensembles and bluebottle creates its own design and light- include Assembly, a Chunky Move/Victorian and is produced by Insite Arts. Her solo work, Emily O’Brien Maryanne Caleo, Annie Edney, Irving approaches. based work, and is fortunate to engage Opera co-production for the Melbourne Pin Drop, presented by Arts House (2010) Production Management & Operation Saulwick, Lorraine Culross, Meri Vitas with a diverse range of artists, designers and Sydney Festivals (2011/2012); Chunky received critical acclaim, was nominated Peter Knight is the recipient of numerous and their projects. bluebottle’s work can be Move’s Mix Tape by Stephanie Lake; A Small Emily O’Brien has extensive experience both Photos Jeff Busby (cover), Heidrun Löhr (below) for four Green Room Awards and won the awards and nominations including an seen in theatres, galleries, museums, found Prometheus by Stephanie Lake and Robin Fox locally and internationally, working primarily Outstanding Production Award (Theatre Australia Council Music Fellowship, two architectural spaces and architecture, through for Melbourne Festival (2013); Ros Warby’s for the performing arts, festivals, and cultural – Hybrid Performance). Pin Drop was later Bell Jazz Awards, and APRA/AMC Art disciplines including music, dance, visual art Tower Suites; Jenny Kemp’s Madeleine; and corporate events. She completed a presented at the Malthouse Theatre (2011), Music, Green Room Theatre (Sound Design) and exhibitions. bluebottle has designed for Floored by Victoria Chiu; and the big-budget Bachelor of Dramatic Arts at the VCA School toured nationally with Mobile States (2012), and AIR Independent Music awards. He theatre and dance projects with artists and musical, Moonshadow: The Musical. For of Production in 2002, and in the same year was adapted for ABC Radio National (2013) holds a doctorate from the Queensland companies including Back to Back Theatre, Victorian Opera she has also designed The undertook an internship at the prestigious and was presented at Tramway in Glasgow Conservatorium/Griffith University, and was Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Bear, Angelique and Snow Queen.