artists
collaborators
International artists unable to participate due to COVID-19 restrictions:
David Gumbs (Martinique) and Lucas Wilson-Spiro (USA/Germany)
Zane Saunders | cultural consultant
Zane Saunders is a descendent of the Gunggari, Jarrowia and Butchulla people of Southern Queensland, and lives in Kuranda. His spirituality - and the people and the culture - are the basis of his work. He grew up exploring the rainforests and fishing and swimming in the Barron River with his brothers and sisters, and has travelled extensively on Cape York Peninsula. Zane is an interdisciplinary artist who has participated in solo and group shows. His visual arts output in painting and printmaking is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Northern Territory University Collection, Holmes a Court collection, Flinders University Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery, University of Queensland, Anthropology Museum, among other permanent collections. Zane's body of performance work has been presented in Australia and abroad, and courageously embraces installation, sculpture, and media to create challenging contemporary performance.
Russell Milledge | Bonemap
Russell Milledge has received national awards in performing arts, new media and visual arts. He has toured and presented work in Australia, Asia and Europe. He has a Masters from Queensland University of Technology and a PhD from James Cook University (JCU). He is Lecturer in Creative Arts, JCU. Russell is a Research Fellow with the Cairns Institute and a Lead Researcher on the innovative State of the Arts in Cairns Report. He is the Technical Director of TEDxJCUCairns and has been an Associate Artist with the Creative Industries Precinct QUT. He is a Founder of KickArts Contemporary Arts Ltd (now NorthSite Contemporary Arts at Bulmba-Ja) and is currently the Curator of a major exhibition of works by the late Torres Strait Islander artist Billy Missi. Russell has creative roles with the Cairns Festival and Cairns Indigenous Arts Fair associated with projection and animation projects.
Rebecca Youdell | Bonemap
Rebecca Youdell is a leading interdisciplinary practitioner born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Studying movement in Australia, USA and UK attending the Royal Ballet School in London, and working with the Royal Swedish Ballet Company in Stockholm. She holds a Dance BFA cum laude high honours from Butler University (USA) 1992, an MA (Visual/Performing Arts) from Charles Sturt University (Aus) 1998 and is a Fellowship recipient of The Australian Choreographic Centre. Rebecca works across multiple perspectives of media with the physical actions and perceptions of the body as a consistent reference. She has toured and performed work in the USA, UK, Scandinavia, Asia and Europe and received numerous awards both in Australia and overseas.
Tetsutoshi Tabata | 66b/cell
Tetsutoshi Tabata is an installation artist, creating computer-generated imagery that he projects onto diverse screen surfaces and sculptures. He has been an invited researcher at Rikkyo University, Tokyo, investigating visual environments for dance and theatre performances. His current work includes set design and image creation for multi-scale projection systems. Immersive experiences in the Australian landscape have been central to his ongoing passion for documenting organic shapes and textures. He has presented work at Ars Electronica, Japan Virtual Reality Society, All Korea Sports Festival, Seoul International Dance Festival, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, Sydney's Powerhouse Museum, as well as numerous stage installations in Australia, USA, Europe and Asia.
Mariana Verdaasdonk | 66b/cell
Mariana Verdaasdonk based herself in Tokyo in the 1990s to study the martial art Aikido and the Japanese dance theatre Butoh. She co-founded Tokyo-based multimedia performance unit 66b/cell as a result of work combining body movement and multimedia. She completed a practice-led PhD at Queensland University of Technology as a cross-cultural research project between Australia and Japan. Her current work focuses on the notion of 'poetic felt space' to describe sensory connections between bodies, images and sound in performance installations. She has presented work at the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), QUT Art Museum (Brisbane), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Tacheles (Berlin, Germany), Seoul International Dance Festival (Korea), Glow: Light in Art and Architecture (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Tokyo Miraikan Science Museum.