the adelaide city council and anat mobile projection art program

surface tension

Adelaide (SA), Scheduled Screenings between November 2005 + March 2006

Presented by The Adelaide City Council and The Australian Network for Art and Technology, SURFACE TENSION is a mobile projection art program that sees four Adelaide artists/artists groups commissioned to produce projection works for screening throughout the CBD.

Plato’s Cave is a mobile shadow-theatre company, comprised of artists Tamara Baillie, Samara Mitchell and Vic Waclawik. They combine traditional silhouette-puppetry techniques, animation and moving images in order to create contemporary interpretations of mythology and fables. They have performed in the 2004 Adelaide Fringe, The Adelaide Festival Theatre’s 2005 Big Backyard Program and the 2005 SALA Moving Image Festival.

Sebastian Carboncini is a performance artist who has graced the stages locally, nationally and internationally for the last eleven years in many formations. He has played at two Adelaide Big Day Out Festivals, performed at four Adelaide Fringes and one Adelaide Cabaret Festival and is about to have his ninth solo photographic art exhibition.
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SHOOT artists’ collective, with artists Edward James, Matthew Lewczak, Ryan Sims and Danielle Walpole working on this project, value collaborative exploration of new-media and development of alternate ways to present photo-digital and new-media artworks. Exhibiting both locally and nationally, Shoot’s art exhibition events include ‘Metrospective’, part of the Adelaide City Council ‘Luminosity’ public art program 2004, and ‘Projector’, presented as part of the Adelaide Fringe 2004 at the South Australian Museum.

tallstoreez productionz, a new media/performance team, are award winning documentary filmmakers Jennifer Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell. They work across hybrid art forms including multimedia installations, interactive performances, interventionist art, social impact filmmaking and youth arts/education. Their mission is to re-vision the purpose of buildings, artificial landscapes and crowds by turning them into spontaneous, living theatre sets, as a powerful reclaiming of spaces for and by the people who inhabit them.

Successful artists also participated in an intensive workshop in late October facilitated by one of Australia’s most engaging new media artists, Kirsten Bradley of Cicada. Cicada is a creative partnership between Kirsten, Nick Ritar, and Ben Frost, working primarily with projection, video, interactive media and sound. Workshops were also undertaken with 6 students from Helpmann Academy partner schools, providing a unique and exciting professional development opportunity to work with one of Australia’s leading artist’s in the field.

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SURFACE TENSION takes art to unsuspecting new audiences using a mobile projection van to present a portable array of guerrilla style projections and performances in unusual city locations. These temporary public artworks will be presented as a series of nightly excursions around the City of Adelaide from November 2005 to March 2006.

For further information, please contact:
Jen Brazier
projection@anat.org.au
tel: (08) 8231 9037
m: 0413 564 474

Gus Clutterbuck
m: 0407 721 532

Surface Tension has been made possible through Adelaide City Councils Public Art program, and will be delivered in negotiation with Council by the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT). Surface Tension is supported by Helpmann Academy.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.