Project Collaborators

Weizen Ho: Dancer / Performer

website: www.weizenho.com/

BIO

WeiZen is a Performing Artist and Deviser who brings together phonic-vocals and movement. Her performances transform and extend mundane postures, sounds and everyday objects or speech into poetic prayer. She excavates linguistic processes searching out their connection to identity. Her work also draws upon a lineage of Chinese immigrants who have lived for several generations in Melaka (Malaysia) and Java and extends it to her status as an Asian immigrant in Australia. She is fascinated by ritual, in particular the possession rituals still practised throughout South-East Asia. For her, rituals witnessed, imagery-work and accoutrements are distilled in performance through the visceral vocal-body. This methodology parallels her interest in the concept of communing with the space of performance, and coalescing a structural relationship between the vocal-body and physical site. Through Australia Council's funding to study and develop Performances, Interpreted & Reimagined of Asian Animistic & Shamanistic Rituals (2016-2018), she directed a team of artists with her associate director Iqbal Barkat, devising and presenting a performance-installation inhabitation, t h e s u b t l e b e i n g s at Articulate project space in March 2018. Running concurrently is a performance series Stories from the Body (S F T B) that began in 2014. S F T B #1 was presented in 3 festivals across Indonesia and incorporated into one of the scenes for Palimpsest Performance #1 at Woodford Academy. This series started as a methodology to re-trace lineages disrupted, myths that have been distorted and stories fragmented as a result of migration and time, from the South Fujian Province of China to Java, Singapore, Melaka and now Australia. The latest in the series, S F T B #9 was devised and performed for Buffalo Field 2018 in Bangkok.

James Peter Brown: Composer / Sound Designer

website: www.jamespeterbrown.com/

BIO

James Brown is a Sydney based composer who has worked collaboratively with companies both locally and internationally to produce soundtracks for performance, film, animation and games. He holds a Visual Arts degree from Sydney College of the Arts, and a Masters Degree in Acoustic Physics from Sydney University.

He has extensive experience working in collaborative, multi-artform processes and has formed ongoing artistic relationships collaborations with artists and companies including: Bethesda, Victoria Hunt, Jane Campion, Adult Swim, The Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, William Yang, George Khut, Matthew Day, Hans Van Den Broeck (SOIT), POST, and Urban Theatre Projects.

His process often involves creating music in synchronicity with the development of the project, creating a strong connection between the material and sound.

Samuel James: Filming, Editing, Video Projections Consultant

website: shimmerpixel.blogspot.com/

BIO

Samuel James has been a projection designer for contemporary performance companies and independent dancers for twenty five years. He has collaborated on more than 250 performances, ranging from works premiering in the major Australian Festivals to developments with experimental, independent companies such as Too Close to the Sun, My Darling Patricia, De Quincey Company and Theatre Kantanka. He has received Australia Council New Media and Visual Arts grants for his independent work and participated in international residencies in Reykjavik, Finland, The Banff Centre, Glasgow, Calcutta and Berlin developing and presenting performative video works. In 2006 he won Best Dance Film at the Australian Dance Awards for a project with dancer Julie-Anne Long. Large scale exhibitions include: Amygdala - Fear Conditioning Artspace, Sydney 2010, Nightshifters Performance Space 2010, Artifact Cartoons at The Tanks Arts Centre Cairns 2013 and Dream Shelving at Campbelltown Arts Centre 2011. He completed an MFA Research at COFA UNSW on Digital Animism in 2012.