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ART-1

MIKE STUBBS

WHITE NOISE

Mike Stubbs' work encompasses film, video, mixed media installations, performance and curation. He has won more than a dozen major international awards including first prizes at the Oberhausen and Locarno Film Festivals, and in 1999 he was invited to present a video retrospective of his own work at the Tate Gallery, London. He has produced installation group Granular Synthesis (Venice Biennale, 2002) and curated new media programs for various international festivals.

PETER CALLAS

VIDEO ART

PETER CALLAS has utilised a wide variety of electronic and digital media for over two decades to create an ongoing series of cultural 'portraits', making work from varied locations, often during sustained periods of residence, in locations such as Papua New Guinea, Japan, the United States, Germany, Brazil, and India, as well as Australia. In 2002-03 Asialink toured 'Peter Callas: anti-terrain', a major solo exhibition of Callas' video and photomedia works, in art museums throughout Asia including the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India, the China Millennium Monument, Beijing, and Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

ART-2

DEVOLUTION

DANCE-ROBOTICS-VIDEO ART

Garry Stewart [AUS] & Louis-Philippe Demers [Canada] & Gina Czarnecki [UK]

2006 Helpmann Award Winners Garry Stewart has built a reputation for pushing dance- and his dancers-beyond conventional limits. In Devolution, Stewart collaborates with Canadian multi-disciplinary artist Louis-Philippe Demers and UK video artist Gina Czarnecki and goes one step further, with the introduction of robotics. Prosthetic limbs, large-scale ambulating robotic creatures, robotic spines and a kinetic set and lighting design-is the relationship between machine and body symbiotic or antagonistic? Exploring concepts of mutation and evolution, the nature of consciousness and co-habitation, Devolution pushes ADT's extraordinary, dancers in new directions, creating a unique world the likes of which theatre has never produced before.

ART-3

JULIEN MAIRE

Born in 1969 in Metz, France, Julien Maire currently lives and works in Berlin. Maire? work has been exhibited internationally in solo shows at galleries including Diderot Gallery, France; Francoise Knabe Gallery, Germany; Jacqueline Moussion Gallery, France; and group shows including Les Rencontres Internationales de la photographie, Arles, France; and Hull Time Based Art, Hull, UK.

DREW BERRY

Drew Berry is a 3D digital animator who creates complex biomedical visualisations for the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI), Australia's flagship centre for medical research. Born in New York, he relocated to Australia where he gained a Bachelor of Science at the University of Melbourne. He went on to receive a Master of Science for his work in studying human cells using time-lapse microscopy. The innovative and elegant approach to 3D biomedical animation that he has engaged in while at WEHI has seen his work transcend the boundaries of medical research. Berry's animations have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the National Museum of Australia and, most recently, as part of SIGGRAPH 2003 in San Diego, USA. His animations have also been included in numerous documentaries for Channel 4, PBS and ABC. Focusing primarily on visualisations of cells, DNA and proteins, Berry's work has enabled a large audience to understand the microscopic workings of the human body while illuminating the mysterious landscape of the body at cellular level.

ART-4

STANLEY KUBRICK EXHIBITION

Jan Harlan - Malcolm McDowell-Christianne Kubrick.

Long time Stanley Kubrick collaborator Jan Harlan encapsulates the stunning life and career of Kubrick through pictures, home movies and poignant and insightful comments from some of cinemas most prominent creators and commentators. Christianne Kubrick painted for her husband's films; the paintings seen in the Harford's apartment in Eyes Wide Shut are hers; as are the various paintings in the Cat Lady's apartment in A Clockwork Orange. Kubrick was born in Germany in 1932 into a theatrical family. She was trained as a dancer and actress but always wanted to be a painter. Success in her earlier career as a dancer and actress led to her being cast in Paths of Glory by Stanley Kubrick. They married in 1958. The Kubrick family moved to England in the 1960s where Christiane continued to paint and exhibit.

ART-5

MEART

Rat neurons in Atlanta, USA operating a robotic arm in Perth Australia mimicking the "artistic process" of drawing a portrait.

Guy Ben-Ary - Born and educated in Law in Israel before moving to Australia where he became director of the Image Analysis and Acquisition Facility (IAAF) at the Institute for Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia.

STEVE POTTER Assistant Professor in the Laboratory for NeuroEngineering. This is a collective research unit within the Department of Biomedical Engineering shared between Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Philip Gamblen - Kinetic Artist. Oron Catts - Artist and curator, Artistic Director and co-founder of SymbioticAThe Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, School of Anatomy & Human biology, University of Western Australia. Founder of the Tissue Culture & Art Project (1996).

STUART BUNT After training as a Zoologist at Oxford, Stuart was the photographer for a number of expeditions to the Andes, the Seychelles and the farflung corners of Europe. Settling down to research in the U.S.A., Stuart started unique work on the regeneration of the spinal cord, work that continues to this day.

ART-6

WERNER NEKKES

Eyes, Lies & Illusions contains more than 500 historic objects, books, prints, instruments and optical ephemera drawn from the Werner Nekes Collection. This extraordinary collection began in the mid-sixties when Nekes, a German experimental filmmaker and professor, started collecting examples of optical phenomena as teaching aids. The Nekes Collection has since grown to become one of the world's most important and encyclopaedic private collections of pre-cinematic media, housing more than 20,000 objects.

GOYI TANGALE

WANTED POSSE

Featuring the stars of the 2005 international hip-hop festival The stars of Breakin' Convention 2005, the annual international hip-hop dance theatre festival at Sadler's Wells appear in Australia for the first time ever for an evening of inspired hip-hop, breaking, popping, and beats. France's astonishing Wanted Posse perform their electric production Bad Moves-a showcase of what the body is capable of doing 'when scored to melodious beats', in a surreal world of humanoids, living in a parallel universe. Wanted Posse won the coveted 2001 World Breakdancing Championships.

ART -7

PHILIP NORTON

Poetry

Philip Norton is originally from Chicago and was runner-up in Mark Smith's first ever slam series final at the Green Mill in 1984. He then left for Japan where he lived for 6 years, performing at the Kyoto Connection and teaching Modern Poetry at the Kyoto University of Education.

BERNI SEARLE

Berni Searle was born in 1964 in Cape Town, South Africa, where she currently lives and works. She studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, completing her MA in 1995. In 2003 she was presented with the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Award (South Africa), with a resulting solo exhibition, Float, which toured nationally. In 2004 Searle was short-listed for the international Artes Mundi award. Other solo exhibitions have included A Matter of Time at the UC, Berkeley Art Museum, 2003; Presence, Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 2004; and About to Forget, Michael Stevenson Contemporary Art Gallery, Cape Town, 2005. Recent group exhibitions include Hang In There, My Dear Geum-Sun, Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Seoul, 2004; Min(e)dfields, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, 2004; 5th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, China, 2004; and Always a Little Further at the 51st Venice Biennale, 2005. Berni Searle is represented by Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town.

ART -8

JEFFREY SHAW

Professor Shaw is a foundation Professor for Media Art at the University of Art and Media, Karlsruhe and the foundation Director for the Research Institute for Visual Media at ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. Under his direction the Research Institute for Visual Media has become, alongside the MIT Lab, USA, the GMD, National Research Centre for Information Technology, Germany and KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

KEIKO KIMOTO

Tokyo-based Keiko Kimoto employs mathematical tools and computer programming methods such as the visualization tools of Nonlinear Dynamical System to create Imaginary Numbers. Kimoto seeks to avoid representational context, instead, she strives to visually express transitions in the world that are not replications of nature as seen by the human eye. Kimoto has exhibited her work throughout Japan, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Tokyo Art Projects, Inc/Mika Gallery, New York, hosted a solo exhibition of her work in 2004. In late 2005, Kimoto will commence lecturing in the Department of Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University.

ART -9

PETER BOSCH & SIMONE SIMONS

Peter Bosch studied psychology at the Universities of Leyden and Amsterdam (1976-83) and sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (1986-87). Simone Simons studied in the audio-visual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam (1980-85). Since 1990, however, they have focused their attention on the development of 'music machines' that by balancing at the edge of order and chaos possess certain creative powers.

RAPHAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. In 1989 he received a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montr?l, Canada. He is an Electronic artist who develops large-scale interactive installations in public space, usually deploying new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces. Using robotics, projections, sound, internet and cell-phone links, sensors and other devices, his installations aim to provide "temporary antimonuments for alien agency". His work has been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural Capital of Europe in Rotterdam (2001), the United Nations' World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the opening of the Yamaguchi Centre for Art and Media in Japan (2003) and the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004). His work in kinetic sculpture, responsive environments, video installation and photography has been shown in two dozen countries, including Art Basel Unlimited (Switzerland), the Sydney Biennale (Australia), the Liverpool Biennial (UK), the Shanghai Biennial (China), the Ita? Cultural (Brazil), the Istanbul Biennial (Turkey), the ARCO art fair (Spain), Bienal de la Habana (Cuba), Architecture and Media Biennale (Austria), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico), the Mus? des Beaux Arts (Canada), European Media Art Festival (Germany) and others.

ART -10

SHILPA GUPTA

Gupta has exhibited in many international exhibitions including Art Meets Media-Adventures in Perception, ICC Tokyo, 2005; 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, 2005; ISEA, Tallinn Estonia, 2004; Asian Traffic, Asia-Australia Art Centre, Sydney, 2004; Transmediale, Berlin, 2004; Edge of Desire, Asia Society, New York, and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2004; Video Brasil, St Paulo, Brazil, 2003etc.

STELARC

Stelarc is an Australian artist who has performed extensively in Japan, Europe and the USA- including new music, dance festivals and experimental theatre. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems and the Internet to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body. He has performed with a THIRD HAND, a VIRTUAL ARM, a VIRTUAL BODY and a STOMACH SCULPTURE. He has acoustically and visually probed the body- having amplified brainwaves, blood-flow and muscle signals and filmed the inside of his lungs, stomach and colon, approximately two metres of internal space. He has done twenty-five body SUSPENSIONS with insertions into the skin, in different positions and varying situations in remote locations.

ART -11

ANOUK VAN DIJK

Anouk van Dijk, born in 1965, in The Netherlands, graduated from the Rotterdam Dance Academy in 1985. For almost a decade she was a lead soloist with companies including the Rotterdam Dance Group and Amanda Miller's Pretty Ugly Dance Company. Having started to choreograph works as early as 1989, Anouk van Dijk has created 15 full evening works and more than 20 shorter choreographies, receiving critical acclaim from international press and audiences

DENNIS DEL FAVERO

Queen Elizabeth II Fellow

Dennis Del Favero was born in Sydney. He has had numerous exhibitions including solo shows at Munchner Stadmuseum, Munich; ViaFarini, Milan and Neue Galerie, Graz. He has participated in various major international exhibitions including Sex and Crime, Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Kriegszustand, Battle of the Nations War Memorial, Leipzig (joint project with Jenny Holzer), 1996; Der anagrammatische der Korper, Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag, Muerzzuschlag, 1999; Future Cinema, 2002, ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. Del Favero hold an Australian Research Council QEII Fellowship and is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at the University of NSW and Artist-in-Resident at ZKM. His CD-ROM multimedia work has been published by Hatje Cantz and during 2001 he co-curated and co-edited with Jeffrey Shaw (dis)LOCATIONS, an interactive DVD-ROM and Book: part of the ZKM Digital Arts Edition series. His video and multimedia work is the subject of a survey exhibition and book by the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, the Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney and UNSW Press pulished in 2004. Del favero is represented by the Mori Gallery, Sydney and Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich.

ART -12

MARI VELONAKI

Mari Velonaki is a media artist working in the field of interactive installation. In the last eight years her work has been engaging spectators with digital characters in interplays activated by sensory triggered interfaces (breath activated, electrostatic charge measurements, artificial vision systems and speech recognition). Areas of research include robotics, distributed and decentralised systems and human/machine interaction.

ISAAC JULIEN

Isaac Julien was born in London, England, where he currently lives and works. Julien attended St Martin's School of Art, graduating in 1984. He founded the Sankofa Film and Video Collective in 1983-84, and was a founding member of Normal Films in 1993. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for The long road to Mazatl?, 1999, made in collaboration with Javier de Frutos. Earlier works include the documentary Looking for Langston, 1989; the Cannes prizewinning Young soul rebels, 1991; and Frantz Fanon: Black skin and white mask, 1996. Isaac Julien is a visiting lecturer at Harvard University and the Whitney Museum of American Arts' Independent Study Program. He is currently Visiting Mellon Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2001 Julien was the recipient of the MIT Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts. In 2003 his video installation Baltimore won the Grand Jury Prize at the Kunstfilm Biennale, Cologne. Exhibition venues in 2005 include Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; MAK Center, Los Angeles; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. A re-working of Paradise Omeros, titled Encore (Paradise Omeros Redux), 2003, is currently being shown at Tate Modern, London, UK.

ART -13

JUSTINE COOPER

Born in Sydney, Australia and currently residing in New York, interdisciplinary artist Justine Cooper's artwork investigates the intersections between culture, science and medicine. She moves between many forms of media - animation, video, installation, photography, as well as medical imaging technologies such as MRI, DNA sequencing, Ultrasound and SEM (scanning electron microscopy). Her work has been internationally recognized and exhibited in over sixty shows and screenings.

ALEX DAVIES

Born in 1977, Alex Davies currently lives and works in Sydney. Awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW in 2001, Davies has since been researching, developing and presenting audio-visual installations. Davies? practice spans a diverse range of media including film, network, realtime audio-visual manipulations and responsive installations; his current practice is based around the development of evolving audio-visual installations in which individuals and dynamic environmental factors shift the conditions of a controlled space. Davies work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including: drift, ISEA, Helsinki, Tallinn, & Stockholm, 2004; Swarm, 2004 Australian Culture Now, ACMI, Melbourne, 2004; Filter Feeder, Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2003; and Radiotopia, Network Event, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 2002

ART -14

BRIAN GOTHONG TAN

Brian Gothong Tan was born in the Philippines in 1980 and grew up in Singapore, where he trained in fine arts, multimedia and animation. Working extensively with multimedia for theatre productions, he received the Singapore Young Designers' Award for Multimedia in 1999 and 2000. His first solo exhibition, Heavenly Cakes and Sentimental Flowers, was held at the Singapore Art Museum in 2003.

IAN HAIG

Ian Haig works at the intersection of visual arts and media arts. His work explores the strangeness of everyday reality negotiated through subject matter that is at times perverse and provocative. His practice focuses on the psychopathological relationship to technologies and the human psyche, often exploring the themes of the body, mutation and devolution through the lens of low cultural forms. He works across media, including installation, video, animation, web, sculpture and drawing. His work has been exhibited in galleries and video/media festivals around the world. Including exhibitions at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, The Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Artec Biennale - Nagoya, Japan, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Art Museum of China, Beijing and The European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. In addition his animation and video work have screened in over 120 Festivals internationally.

ART -15

INTERACTIVE OBJECTS

MINIM++

Kunoh and Chikamori have been creating artworks together as minim++ since 1996. Their works have been exhibited extensively throughout Japan and also internationally at Siggraph, Ars Electronica, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the 3rd Seoul International Media Art Biennale.

VISUAL SOUNDSCAPES

ULF LANGHEINRICH

Ulf Langheinrich began studying at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1978, the same year that he was called to do his military service in the National People's Army of the GDR. In the early 1980s he studied industrial design, and carried out audio-experiments using organs and harmoniums. His request for his citizenship of the GDR to be dissolved was granted in 1984, and he moved to Göttingen, where he established a recording studio and took up photography. From 1985 to 1990, he taught drawing, painting and photography. Based in Vienna since 1988, he continued to exhibit paintings and drawings, holding a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse and putting out a catalogue of his work. He designed musical soundscapes for various film and video projects and produced experimental concerts for Vienna's Kunstradio. During this time, he was also involved in the founding of the multimedia group Pyramedia, and joined the board of directors of the independent cultural organisation WUK. In 1991 he founded the groundbreaking audio-visual performance and installation duo Granular Synthesis with Kurt Hentschlager. Granular Synthesis have presented their evolving body of work extensively in Europe and the United States.

ART -16

EXPERIMENTA

LIZ HUGHES

Liz has directed documentaries and TV drama for the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, Disney Television and Channel Seven. She directed three episodes of Short Cuts, winner of the Australian Film Institute award in 2002 for Best Children? TV Series. As Artistic Director of Experimenta, Liz curated the highly successful Prototype exhibition and co-curated Experimenta? 2003 major exhibition, House of Tomorrow, touring nationally and internationally in 2004 and 2005. She was one of three curators for the Seoul International Media Art Biennale in Korea in 2004-2005.

HOLOGRAMS

MARTINA MNGROVIUS

A graduate of Applied Physics at RMIT University, Martina Mrongovius is a Melbourne-based artist who has specialised for the last few years in holographics. She has been working and researching at the cutting edge of this new technology with specialists and professionals around the globe. Mrongovius artworks have been diverse, ranging from short films and animations to comic books and holograms. Recent exhibitions of her work have been held at Experimedia, State Library of Victoria, 2002, The Foundry, London, 2002, and as part of Next Wave, Melbourne, 2004.

ART -17

SUE BROADWAY

Strange Fruit - Synchro Swim, It's like air ballet. You won't see anything like it.?

The Wharf, UK Move over Esther Williams. Australian synchronized swimming routine over four metres above the ground. A world premiere from these aerial wonders.

HARVIE KRUMPET

ADAM ELLIOT

Adam Elliot has become one of Australia's most celebrated animators - and certainly our most successful short filmmaker. His touching trilogy of short films - Uncle, Cousin and Brother - have built his international recognition as a master storyteller. His shorts trilogy has participated in over two hundred film festivals and won over fifty awards - including four AFI awards. But it is Adam's latest short film, Harvie Krumpet, that has ensured his name will be remembered after his exciting Oscar win at the 2004 Academy Awards. The little plasticine character Harvie beat three of the giants of the animation industry - Disney, Pixar and 20th Century Fox - to win the coveted 'best animated short film' award. Harvie Krumpet is narrated by actor Geoffrey Rush with a cameo by Kamahl.

ART -18

GINA CZARNECKI

Gina Czarnecki is a British new media artist whose hybrid artworks result from intersections of film, video and computer-generated imagery. Until recently she headed the postgraduate course in Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. Beginning her career as an animator, Czarnecki embraced new media technologies, producing installation works such as Versifier, which was exhibited at ACMI as part of Remembrance + the Moving Image.

BAMBUCCO

SIMON BARLEY

Simon Barley founded Bambuco in 1998. His artistic background is in spatial design for theatre and dance, and installation sculpture. His motif, especially in dance, was use of vertical space. It still is. In 1993, while sitting by the Yarra River in Melbourne, he began thinking about building his own bridge over the river*. A material that was light and inexpensive was needed. For the next two years Simon researched bamboo construction, mainly in SE Asia, and experimented with different systems and adaptations. 1995 marked his seventh year as designer in residence with the contemporary dance company, Danceworks. Together they presented this first foray into large scale bamboo installation and performance ? Bridge ? built for Melbourne International Arts Festival over a two week period followed by a season of aerial dance performance. Curiously, the audience seemed more captivated by the two week construction process than by the spectacular performance?he idea of bamboo construction as performance began here.

ART -19

BRETT GRAHAM & RACHEL RAKENA

Brett Graham is one of New Zealand's most exciting and accomplished sculptors, highly regarded for his ability to abstract complex historical and cultural ideas into formally strong and beautiful sculptural forms. . In the last decade Graham has exhibited extensively, locally and internationally, as well as being regarded as a leading authority on contemporary Maori sculpture.

MESCHAC GABA

Conceptual Art

Meschac Gaba was born in1961 in Cotonou, Benin, and now lives and works in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He began studying art in Zossou Gratien? workshop in Cotonou and then at the Rijksakedemie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam from 1996 to 1997. His work has been featured at the 3rd Kwangu Biennale (2000), the 2nd Taipei Biennial (2001), Berlin Biennial (2001), Documenta XI (2002), the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), Africa Remix (2004-2005) and has been included in exhibitions in Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, South Africa and Switzerland. His most significant exhibition to date is his ?useum for Contemporary African Art? (1997-2002), which traveled all over the world to museums in Amsterdam, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland and the United States. Creating works in painting, sculpture and installation art, Meschac Gaba is one of the most innovative artists of African descent exhibiting internationally. His artistic strategy is diverse and complex, and is best known for his correlation of economic power, commercialism, globalism, public space and the role of the western museum.

ART -20

MONICA MAIMONE

Studio Festi. The European tradition of the open-air theatre extravaganza is unparalleled in the world of outdoor performance. In a specially-commissioned world premiere presentation, the great Compagnia di Valerio Festi performs a site-specific masterpiece Il Cielo che Danza (The Dancing Sky). Studio Festi's magical production sees dancers appear from the heavens, emerge from the river and traverse the parkland.

Compagnie des Quidams - "Herberts Dream" [France]

Jean-Baptiste Duperray

Herberts Dream Visually stunning? The London Season White figures on stilts emerge from the shadows and slowly transform into majestic four metre high illuminated beings. As the strains of beautiful original music float over the park, these enormous and ethereal creatures begin a strange and enchanting magic rite to raise the moon. Herbert? Dream has cast its magic over 400 times around the world. Now it? your turn to fall under its spell. www.quidams.com/quidhtmlanglais/bienvenuegb.html

ART-21

GIDEON OBARZANEK

CHUNKY MOVE

Melbourne-based Chunky Move was founded by artistic director Gideon Obarzanek in 1995 and has been the State of Victoria's flagship contemporary dance company since 1998. Chunky Move's work constantly seeks to redefine contemporary dance within an ever-evolving Australian culture.The company's work is both diverse in form and content; to date the company has created a number of works for the stage, site-specific projects in its home city of Melbourne, and new media and installation works.

CIRCUS OZ

Circus Oz was founded in late 1977 as an amalgamation of two already successful Australian groups, Soapbox Circus and the New Circus. The principles that were the heart of the original Circus Oz philosophy are still reflected in their performances today: collective ownership and creation, gender equity, a uniquely Australian signature and team-work. The founding members of Circus Oz loved the skills and tricks of traditional circus but wanted to make a new sort of show that a contemporary audience could relate to, adding elements of rock'n'roll, popular theatre and satire. They wanted it to be funny, irreverent and spectacular, a celebration of the group as a bunch of multi-skilled individual women and men, rather than a hierarchy of stars. Above all, they didn't want to take themselves too seriously. They sewed and welded together their own circus tent, got together a collection of old trucks and caravans and went on the road. Circus Oz was a fresh and original voice in circus and the company was immediately popular with Australian audiences. Within a few years, they began to tour internationally, with visits to New Guinea and Europe. Since that time Circus Oz has performed in 26 different countries, across five continents to over two million people. They have broken box office records at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and represented Australia at scores of international festivals. They have performed on 42nd Street, at the Tivoli Gardens, in a refugee camp in the West Bank, in indigenous communities in the Australian desert and in a glass opera house in the Brazilian rainforest. Along the way they have translated parts of the show into scores of languages from Hindi and Japanese to Danish.l

ART-22

BRUCE GLADWIN

SMALL METAL OBJECTS

Bruce Gladwin's "Small metal objects" is the hilarious yet disturbing tale of two ?mall time' men and their accidental role in the downfall of a awards night. The plot looks at respect and the lack of it in an age when our value is calculated by our productivity. The action happens in Forrest Place against a background of real shoppers and commuters who become extras in the drama. The audience wears headphones, and actors with radio microphones move through the square.

ERIC NOEL

GROUPPE F

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The artistry of acclaimed French pyrotechnicians, Groupe F, is known throughout the world; they have lit up the Eiffel Tower, the Stade de France for the football World Cup, the Olympic Games in Athens and the 2004 and 2005 New Years Eve celebrations in London.

ART-23

ULRICH LE SNOB

Glisssssendo S.N.O.B.: Service Nettoyage des Oreilles Bouches (Blocked Ear Cleaning Service) The astonishing gliding orchestra from Europe. They move swiftly and silently, morphing as if by magic into transfixing choreographed routines. And all as they play an eclectic repertoire ranging from Philip Glass to Michael Nyman. Catch them before they slide away. www.ulik.com

PROPELLER

WATERMILL THEATRE AND OLD VIC PRODUCTIONS BY PROPELLER Shakespeare's brilliantly surreal and controversial romantic comedy gives a glimpse into the complex relationship between men and women, and subservience and obedience within marriage. A man playing a boy dresses up as a girl and a girl played by a boy dresses up as a bride in this delicious story full of mistaken identities and transformations. Propeller is fast becoming the most notable Shakespeare specialists in the world, Propeller's performances sizzle with energy and imagination. Propeller's all-male ensemble format is based on Elizabethan tradition - men play the roles of women, just as they did in Shakespeare's time. Performing two of Shakespeare's greatest comedies of mistaken identity, Propeller reveal a human truth, exploring beautifully how being in love with the wrong person reveals genuine feeling.

ART-24

LUCY GUERIN

Born in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin graduated from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks) She moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O'Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner. Guerin recently received the 2000 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award for achievement by an individual. Other awards include the Prix d'auteur from the Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Bagnolet in France and a 1994 New York Foundation for the Arts Choreographic Fellowship.

GERARD VAUGHAN - NGV GALLERY

Dr Gerard Vaughan, appointed Director of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1999, is an art historian with extensive experience within the international art and museum worlds. His research interests are particularly concerned with the history of taste and art collecting in the 18th and 19th centuries, ranging from neo-classicism to post-impressionist painting. After completing his Master's thesis at Melbourne University on the French post-impressionist painter Maurice Denis, Dr Vaughan taught art history at Melbourne University before undertaking doctoral research at Oxford University from 1981. For fifteen years from 1983 Dr Vaughan was the London-based adviser to the Felton Bequests' Committee, and during the 1980s held several positions at Oxford University while completing his doctorate on the collecting of classical antiquities in 18th century England, under the supervision of Professor Francis Haskell. From 1989-1991, Dr Vaughan served as Private Secretary to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. During the early 1990s Dr Vaughan was Deputy Director of Campaign for Oxford University, at the time the most successful fundraising program undertaken in Europe, securing $AUD 1 billion. He became Director of the British Museum Development Trust in 1994, and in this role led a ? million ($AUD400million) development program for the Museum. Dr Vaughan has been awarded several fellowships during his career, including Wolfson College Oxford, a Paul Mellon Research Fellowship at the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven; and has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

ART-25

LLOYD KAUFMANN

Lloyd Kaufman is many things: producer, director, screenwriter, editor, composer, actor, and, above all, a renegade fighting against the further conglomeration and homogenization of Hollywood. Kaufman is president and co-founder of Troma Entertainment, one of the last bastions of independent, low-budget exploitation films, the kind that bear titles such as Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986) and Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator (1989).

CRAIG WALSH

Walsh is an installation artist who has exhibited and collaborated both nationally and internationally. Primarily interested in site-specific projects and the exploration of alternative contexts for contemporary art, his work often utilises projection in response to existing environments and contexts. Walsh has been awarded international residencies and has exhibited throughout Asia. He has produced work for festival environments and has recently completed a range of permanent and temporal public art commissions in Australia. Recent exhibition venues include: Havana Biennale, Cuba; Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art; Sydney Festival; Womad Singapore/Adelaide; and Queensland Biennial Festival of Music.

ART-26

SCOTT REDFORD

PHOTOGRAPHY

" I have always liked the way pornography is able to be understood and be relevant to many people. So, in a way making this piece was perfectly natural for me. However I'm not naïve and realize the piece will be read by some as an attempt to gain notoriety through shock. This is why I resisted getting into sex imagery for so long. "

NIMROD WEISS

Developer of clever software-driven interactive art installations.