Artists

 

PROJECT: TACTILE MIXING SURFACES

 

Deprogram through experimentation and careful design aim to re-shape the traditional approach of mixing live and recorded material. By expanding and evolving a solo project incepted in 1997, the group are attempting to craft a completely new and experimental tactile interface for mixing purposes.

 

 

About The Artists:
Deprogram is - Sydney-based electronic producer / performer, Mary Budimir. Joined on stage by drummer, Robbie Mudrazija (Entropic), producer, Nick Mainsbridge (The Triffids) and video artist, J D Young, the group improvise with vocals, electronic instruments and projected visuals.

 

http://www.deprogram.net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROJECT: SOME FILM MUSEUMS I HAVE KNOWN

 

Some Film Museums I Have Known is an over-the-top video drama. Inspired by found texts and stolen ideas it explores ideas of archiving and erasure. It is also funny, hopefully. The project is a work in progress.


About the Artists
Eddie Sharp is from Power Media Industries, a collective collaborating to create unique and wonderfully entertaining new media and performance works. Since 2005 they have worked together on projects such as their two live cinema remix projects; Wonka! and Dance 2 The Max, a radio show series on 2ser and a series of Erotic Fan Fiction Performance Readings. This project will be run by Eddie Sharp and Will Mansfield with performances by Team Mess.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROJECT: EQUILIBRIUM

 

This collaboration combines live instrumentation, photography, video, installation and improvisation in a performance based on the concept of Equilibrium as a means of understanding our environment and exploring the myriad of human experience and perception. Lab time will be spent composing an original musical score and exploring improvisation through found objects and stage installations. Dan Jameison will be using location and field footage, photography, and experimenting with live visual mixing in a unique approach to the art of video projection.


About the Artists
Entropic is Conrad Harris (guitar,vocals), Campbell McGuiness (fender Rhodes, tuned percussion) Hal Strewe (double and electric bass) and Robbie Mudrazija (drum kit and percussion). Their jazz fused, electro-acoustic grooves place their sound somewhere between a cinematic soundtrack and a rocking dance party. Entropic’s engaging live show creates a space for the acoustic in the electronic world.
Dan Jameison is a Sydney based filmmaker whose eclectic style has seen him work in all aspects of film production including music filmclips, arts based projects and collaborations and many short films.
This project will also feature Production Design by Xanthe Highfield and Sound Design/Engineering by Chris Irvine.

 

Erth are creative theatrical innovators continually producing large scale unique work. They are looking for new talent and people. They are making an opportunity for artists who have skills in puppetry, dance, stiltwalking, aerials, street theatre and design to join the artistic director of the company, Scott Wright, in a secret project during Underbelly Lab which will be shown at the Underbelly festival to a very limited audience.

 

 

 

 

 

Applications are on inquiry, therefore anybody interested should contact
scott@erth.com.au with a brief description of who you are and what you do.

 

The project, working title "murder" will be conducted from July 8th-12th
with no more than 3 hour sessions each day making puppets and operating them
in fiendish and macabre ways. Murder will culminate in a showing of the work
during the Festival on 12 and 13 July.

Murder is a free project to successful applicants.

Participants will also be considered for future work with the company. It's
an audition but not as we know it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROJECT: FBI'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES / VJ performance

 

On Sunday 13th from 9-10pm, for the final hour of the Underbelly Festival, the foyer will tune into FBi 94.5 FM to listen to Sunday Night At the Movies, FBi¹s sound art show. This special hour will feature audio from Underbelly projects collected, collated and remixed from the lab by FBi producers Brooke Olsen, Brett Maverix, Dan McKinlay and Dan Conway (with coordination by Alain Haruthunian and Rifkah Pegler). This promises to be a wild ride through all things aural! Those at Carriageworks will not only hear this hour of audio but will see a VJ performance featuring visuals by Underbelly VJs Jack Barton (VJ Jax) and Nathan Garrett. The perfect finale event bringing our community of audiences and artists together!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flighty will be developing and presenting a performance: part aerial, part video and part soundtrack against a wall in the Carriageworks foyer. The group is looking forward to experimenting with some unique and evocative combinations of aerial acrobatics, sound and vision to create a dreamscape of flight and solitude. Artist Ange explains that: “We are interested in exploring the interior spaces that we occupy through our aerial practice. There’s a tension that exists between a kind of meditative awareness of breathing, and the pain and exertion that is central to a lot of what we do. So we will be using the breathe and heartbeats as a means of mapping that tension.”

About the Artists
Flighty Collective comprises of aerialists, dancers, a rigger, a filmmaker and a video artist. Three of the artists - Lee-Anne Litton, Alejandro Rolandi and Ange Matheson - have worked together previously on aerial and dance works for various projects around Sydney. Underbelly will be the first time they work together with multimedia artists Inka Stafrace and Kili Hogan.

 

 

PROJECT: DRAG ACTS

 

A performance artist, a video artist and a performance maker inspired by the Christian story of Saint Wigerfortis - the martyr saint who grew a beard in one night to deter the man she was promised to marry – will create individual works exploring notions of transformation and gender, as responses to each others ideas. So whether the outcomes of the project focuses on the abject, the filmic or the theatrical possibilities of drag and cross-dressing, Drag Act intends to be bent and hairy.

About the Artists
Anastasia Zaravinos is a performance artist, Fran Barrett is a contemporary performance maker and Kate Blackmore is a video artist. Underbelly will provide the opportunity for each artist to develop their own practices through responding to and provoking the processes of the others.

 

 

 

PROJECT: SECOND STOREY

Helium present a new performance installation Second Storey. After dancing from the ceilings of Carriageworks at Underbelly 2007 they are back to experiment and collaborate on a new work that combines dance, aerials and video.

About the Artists
LeeAnne Litton is an aerialist exploring many apparatuses including bungey and tissue. Alejandro Rolandi is a visual and performing artist who also teaches contact improvisation, physical theatre and circus. He is the director of Strings Attached Physical Theatre. Chris Wilson is a digital artist, filmmaker and director of graphics company Soma-CG. Hosanna Heinrich is a visual and performing artist who has worked across many disciplines from painting to video.

 

PROJECT: CUBBYHOUSE

 

Umbilical Brothers meets Flight of the Conchords in a show that celebrates the freedom of childish abandon. Combining music, comedy and text-based performance, this is the story of two friends in a world where imaginary friends are real and childhood games and fantasies reign. Cubbyhouse is a tribute to the imagination as the duo offer up songs, stories, mime and beatbox in a heightened reality where nothing is what it seems. This project will be developed and rehearsed during the Lab and performed on Festival days featuring sound design by Kim Bowers (aka Busty Beats from Sista She).

www.myspace.com/cubbyhouseshow

 

About the Artists
Holly and Adriano met at drama school and have been collaborators and chums for years. Together they created the cabaret-comedy romp Connie Chang’s Cabaret Roadshow and WOOJam, an artistic happening of singers, songwriters and performers. Cubbyhouse is a culmination of their character-based work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROJECT: MOVEMENT AS METAPHOR

 

A bedroom in a public space, bodies that trigger and remix sound and images projected high above for all to see. This project explores ideas of communication in a technology-driven world, and plays with the construction of boundaries between the private/public and the real/virtual.

 

About the Artists
JE&T is a newly formed collective. Eva Muller is a sound and video artist, performer and designer, Jordana Maisie is a photo and new media artist working in sound, video and interactive installation. Talia Linz has studied acting and playwriting, with a focus on self-devised and cross-disciplinary work.