A little insight into our workshops

One Showing Down

Such excitement last Thursday as groups were formed and ideas were thrown back and forth in a frenzy of anticipation.

It was soo refreshing to see so many different ideas and aesthetics from the groups as they performed a showing at the end of the evening.

For us, I’m really excited by the idea of multiple realities, of inner and outer worlds, of landscapes and ideas that are hidden being exposed. I want to keep exploring interesting ways to play with light and shaddow to create mood that can be subverted by a following image.

Creation and exploration are glorious things.

Lara x

Where will we land?

More info on the stagejuice site

Hi all, this is Jacqui.

Nice to be there last night, and to meet those of you who I hadn’t met before.

I’d like to properly introduce myself as an artist, and tell you about the things I do.

In the last few years I have worked as a video artist for live performance and theatre, some of the theatre productions I worked on include ‘Bully Beef Stew’ (PACT), a play exploring Aboriginal manhood in a contemporary context, and ‘The Promise’, a quirky and surrealist theatre work (The Eora Centre for Visual and Performing Arts/PACT).

I have also worked on solo performances which include an interactive installation: ‘Gaze’, a performance with video/installation requiring audience participation to reveal the binary power constructs of objectification and observation; ‘The Well,’ a performance using video projection as a light source exploring the concept of water and emotion; and a durational performance/installation, ‘Intertwined: A virtual Lover,’ which explores memory as a disappearing entity being replaced by an online fetishised video and photographic documentation of our increasingly virtual lives.

The programs I use include Isadora and Processing (interactive), Final Cut (video editing), Pro Tools and Soundtrack Pro (audio processing).

I am interested in using video projections as a source of light to create shadow and abstraction (of the video itself, the space, and the performers in the space), projection onto bodies. Im also very interested in experimenting with different approaches to video projection.

I have a blog documenting some of my personal work:

http://nightbirdvision.blogspot.com.au/

If you are interested in looking at the video work only, please follow the links below:

http://nightbirdvision.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/thus-became-her-view-of-world.html

http://nightbirdvision.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/intertwined.html

http://nightbirdvision.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/doppleganger-performance-video.html

http://nightbirdvision.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/transcendent-travel.html

http://nightbirdvision.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/gaze.html

http://nightbirdvision.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/liminal.html

http://nightbirdvision.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/performance-documentation.html

http://nightbirdvision.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/video-installations-in-collaboration.html

http://nightbirdvision.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-max=2010-05-28T11:02:00%2B10:00&max-results=7&start=12&by-date=false

If anyone has any questions about any of these links, please feel free to contact me at fairystar_20@hotmail.com

Catch ya.

Jacqui.

dancing on the edge – of outer space

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is this week nearing the boundary of our solar system, “dancing on the edge” of outer space.

Our solar system is an island in outer space. Our world is an island in our solar system. Space. What is space? What is the substance of space? It is often described as a great emtipness, a nothingness almost. But what is space actually full of? If we can only percieve a small percentage of what’s there (light spectrum, sound spectrum…) then what are we actually missing? Is space really as lonely and isolated as we think…?

There is great mystery in outerspace, space, the universe, the cosmos. I love that uncertainty, not in an unstable way, but in a way that makes anything and everything possible. A blankness for creation. What do we fill our spaces with? Why do we fill them? Does filling space make us happy, does it really fulfill us?

In the same way – we search out there in the universe for signs of life, for something, anything to prove we’re not alone. As a race, we’re trying to fill our space.

I want to play with stillness, silence, with space!

Here’s the link to SPACEMAN – Babylon Zoo, the song I very poorly rendered over Skype to you all on Sunday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMkEcR7qpP8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

There’s something really nice in the repitition of the line “I can’t get off this carousel”. It’s a dizzying free-floating, trapped in vast openess, spinning kind of a feeling.