APHIDS RESIDENCIES AND MENTORSHIPS

The Aphids Residencies and Mentoring Scheme was established at the start of 2007 to provide mentoring, support and significant professional development opportunities to young and emerging artists working in music and cross artform practice. Since 2007, 34 artists working across hybrid arts practice, sound and contemporary music have been supported to develop exploratory and inimitable new works, and undertake tailored, unique, and self-directed skills development residencies and mentorships nationally and internationally.

In 2010, the Aphids Residencies and Mentoring Scheme will continue to support young indigenous artists working in music and cross-artform practice, and will also broker national and international residencies.

Furthermore, Aphids will initiate a series of workshops and specific mentoring programs, roundtables and networking sessions with professional artists and Aphids personnel.

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2009

Lara Thoms, Artist
Hybrid Arts Residency at Radialsystem V, Berlin
October 2009

The Hybrid Arts Residency allowed Lara Thoms to engage in cross-artform practice to take part in a critical mass of activity taking place in Radialsystem V - during the Asia-Pacific Weeks Hybrid Arts Fest during the 22nd September and the 18th October, 2009.

Lara also presented her new media work, and video goggles at the Hybrid Arts Fest as part of the Asia-Pacific Weeks. As part of the Australian Hybrid arts festival, Lara showed her work to an audience of forty people, delivering a performance lecture centred on a false history of the Arts Centre, bringing attention to the forgotten spaces, quirky communities and everyday oddities in the building. She performed a thirty minute work with a series of digitally manipulated photographs, props and costumes.

Further details on Lara Thom's residency at Radialsystem V in Berlin can be read here.

Matthew Gingold, New Media Artist
Tactical-Media Residency at CIA (Centre for Interdisciplinary Art) Studios - Perth
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2009

Matthew Gingold undertook the Aphids’ Tactical Media Residency offered in partnership with CIA (Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts) in Perth, Western Australia.

Gingold has been working as a new media artist, arts project manager and technical director in Australia and abroad for the last ten years. His work has taken him to Singapore, Korea, Japan, Britain, Germany, China and many regional areas and capital cities in Australia. Gingold’s new media work is concerned with perception, performance and the intersection of the body with technology in a multiplicity of contexts.

Further details about Matthew Gingold's residency at CIA Studios can be read here.

Choose Your Own Adventure Recipients

The Choose Your Own Adventure – Quick Response was set up by Aphids to assist young and emerging artists working within new music and/ or interdisciplinary practice to undertake self-directed unique and ambitious professional and creative development on a national or international level.

Ross Manning, Instrument Maker and Artist

Undertook a residency with Koelse Experimental Music Association in Helsinki, and Ptarmigan electronic art space in Finland. He was also involved as a performer at the Penny Parade in Berlin, coordinated by internationally lauded pop musician, artist and producer – Arto Lindsay.

Ross Manning - recipient of a Choose Your Own Adventure residency – with internationally recognized artist and musician Arto Lindsay – at the Penny Parade in Berlin

To view examples of Ross' work, see Clatterbox, Youtube here and here, and Myspace.

Jeremy Neideck, Butoh dancer and choreographer
South Korea

'Strange Earth', Interactive Dance Installation (2009) With Park Jong Hyon (National Art Studio, Korea) - Photographer: Park Jong Hyon

Jeremy Neideck traveled to South Korea to participate in a training program with vocal specialist Oh Minh Ah of the National Theatre of Korea. He also presented a series of performances with South Korea's Crossing of Movements.

Further details about Jeremy's performances and residency can be viewed here.

Sam Routledge, puppeteer
Residency with AMRA, Melbourne

Sam Routledge

Developed a miniature puppetry/video project featuring models and dioramas used by the Australian Model Railway’s Association Clubhouse (AMRA)

As part of Sam Routledge’s residency with AMRA, he explored the processes of running a miniature railway timetable and they understand the processes of making a miniature puppet work.

Routledge’s residency with AMRA involved working, collaborating with members of the trainspotting subculture to develop filmic and miniature puppetry installations and performances.

Sally Golding, Filmmaker
Residency with San Francisco Cinematheque

Sally Golding undertook an international residency with the San Francisco Cinematheque in the USA to present a series of performances and engage in critical discussion in expanded cinema practice with internationally respected media artist Kerry Laitala.
For more information on Sally's work visit OtherFilm and Abject Leader

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2008

MAURIAL ROSE SPEARIM
Artist

Aphids is delighted to have been able to support the mentorship of Maurial Rose Spearim during the development of Margie Mackay's Longing Belonging Land, the opening night of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival. Longing Belonging Land marks the ongoing significance, necessity and importance of the National Apology.

WILLOH S. WEILAND
Producer, artist, writer, performer

Willoh developed Yelling at Stars, Australia’s first inter-stellar message, transmitted into outer space from The Sidney Myer Music Bowl on the closing night of the 2008 Next Wave Festival. The transmission was a 40-minute sound, audiovisual and performance work prefaced with an introduction by SBS Television’s World News Australia presenter Anton Enus.
The performance was supported by a major web-based component, in which the ‘Yelling at Stars’ team lead viewers through the many philosophical and scientific issues involved in interstellar communications. Yelling at Stars

RICHARD HAYNES
Clarinetist

Developed and performed Listen My Secret Fetish, presented in the LOFT, Melbourne, as part of Midsumma Festival 2008.

SIMON CHARLES
Writer

Undertook a 6 month residency with RealTime + Onscreen nationally distributed print and online magazine in Sydney to specialize as a writer and reviewer in hybrid art and new music industry.

CLARE WATSON
Artist / Theater Director

Developed a series of site-specific installations titled The Museum of Some Time at Bains: Connective in Brussels; an associative museum scavenged from flea markets and urban street finds, relating to theories by George Perec and Walter Benjamin.

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2007

DARIO VACIRCA
Crossartformer

Dario Vacirca undertook a residency at Bains::Connective in Brussels to explore concepts of nomadic structures and sheep-soul transmogrification.
Outcomes of Dario's residency at Bains::Connective included an installation of 3 video loops projected onto a wall of hay and a performance piece for one person at a time. 42 bails of hay were relocated from the field where Dario sat with white Belgian sheep for 3 days and nights. welltheatre.blogspot.com

ANNABELLE BROWN
Soprano

Secondment to the Aphids project Music at Mt Egerton
International residencies at Bains::Connective, Brussels and Castel Burio, Italy

Annabelle Brown performing in Music at Mt Egerton

IVAN THORLEY
Choreographer, film maker
Crow Song film investigation Crow Song.

LOUISE CURHAM
Film artist

Selected as part of the artist-in-studio program at Bank Art1929 in Yokohama, Japan, Curham developed a public exhibition and new film work utilising hand-processed celluloid.

MATTHIAS SCHACK-ARNOTT
Percussionist

Matthias was seconded to the Aphids project Music at Mt Egerton where he played miniature percussion instruments as part of performances in regional Victoria.

OLAF MEYER
Media artist

Sustainable energy residency with support from Federation Square.
As part of the residency, Olaf undertook the creative development of the Water Harp, a new media instrument harp exploring water and solar usage, and involving community engagement to explore music and sustainable practice.

And...

Aphids has also provided mentorships to theatre maker James Brennan, new media artist Matthew Gardiner and playwright Lally Katz.
In 2005, Aphids auspiced and produced Matthew Gardiner’s Oribotics at the Sydney Myer Asialink Centre. The project has since been presented in Perth, Sydney, USA, Japan and Europe.
Through auspicing and producing James Brennan’s The Glass Garden in 2002, Aphids was able to support a young performer to develop his fledgling ideas into a major new work.