Subverted Spaces

Subverted Spaces is a collaborative work between Aaron Veryard Brisbane based dancer, performer and electromechanical instillation artist and Central Victorian based dancer, choreographer and animator Megan Beckwith.

This new artistic partnership will explore the use of multi Media and mixed media to develop an instillation work based around the theme of ‘Subverted Spaces’ using projection, choreography, and found objects. Space will be destabilized, sabotaged and subverted in an investigation that intersects the ordinary with the hyper-virtual.

Peep

A Collaborative dance instillation work by visual artist Ian Wells and Megan Beckwith performed at Federation Square for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. The audience viewed the dance performance from fisheye lens portholes installed in the side of a large white box. Creating the effect of a virtual space within a real environment. The work contained elements of thrill as it placed the spectator in a position of voyeur, through its peep show presentation. It also provided a disoriented and confusing view for the audience. Some audiences members were convinced that there were multiple rooms and numerous dancers within the box others were sure it was some kind of film projection.

Punctum

Punctum is a live arts organisation based in central Victoria, Australia.

Established in August 2004, Punctum produces and creates small to large scale performances and installations.

Punctum has an Artistic Director, currently its founder Jude Anderson, and a core group of 9 members - all practising arts professionals with national and international profiles working in a diverse range of art forms - from theatre to sound art, installations, dance, new media, experimental film, contemporary poetry and spoken word, sculpture, and exhibition design.

Each artist with Punctum is involved in creating works where the conventions of performance and installations are investigated.

Our work has a national profile for its contemporary themes, the strength and diversity of artistic input, and unconventional, innovative exchange with audiences.

It is often placed where people least expect to find it.

Punctum also manages an “arts incubator” – : a place where artists working with contemporary form can research, practise, and build works.

Punctum (pronounced pounctoum) rejoices in punctuating the cultural landscape.

Fourcast

Tent City

Tent City was a 5 week residency leading up to the Daliha and Arts Festival. The tent city is a night time installation/performance for people to reflect on the diverse and multicultural origins of Eaglehawk and community life in a Tent City.

This Fountain Operates Without Water

A new waterless fountain created each day for the 2005 Castlemaine State Festival!
Provisional, participatory and intimate, these works were informed by ecological, social and personal histories. Exploring and resolving water management issues facing Central Victorian communities, with art works created by Bendigo based Fourcast.

Studio and installation of art works took place at Tutes Cottage, Castlemaine. Tutes Cottage was built in 1857 from local stone. In 1855 a gold miner became entitled to a portion of land for a house and garden under the terms of the ‘Miner’s Right. Tutes Cottage has been occupied under this right since construction, expiring in 1996, when the last occupant passed away. Tutes Cottage is now owned and managed by Parks Victoria.

Public Fourcast

PUBLIC FOURCAST achieved developing a series of multi-media performances responding to the public art works located in Benidgo’s central parks, the lands and water management practices implied by the form, subject and function of the public art works. The resulting art works were presented as a part of the 2004 Bendigo Summer in the Parks Calendar of Events.

The artists began this project by thinking about public monuments in Bendigo such as the Alexandra Fountain. The work emerging from this exploration proposes new monuments which, in dialogue with the old, reify the shifting relation of an urban community to its environment. By definition a monument is conceived as an enduring work, ensuring cultural continuity over time. The plans or models for alternative monuments implicit in these artists’ installations and performances are less monolithic in style and intent. Provisional, participatory and intimate, these works which are informed by ecological, social and personal histories, allow space for the fluidity of response necessary to bring about a symbiotic relation between community and environment.