Lotte Latukefu will perform Daragang Magayon Cantata, Saturday April 29 at the Lennox Theatre Parramatta, composed by Bruce Crossman to text by Merlinda Bobis as part of The Aurora Festival, Living Music presented by Aurora New Music and ABC Classic FM. The festival also features composers Terry Riley, Michael Daugherty and Stuart Greenbaum.
Merlinda Bobis's 'River, River' on airplay, ABC Radio National Sunday, 3 pm, 26 March and Friday, 9 pm, 31 March
'River, River': Music Theatre on Radio To keep a place alive in your heart, it must dwell in your mouth. And so the river is spoken and sung ? and all the beloved thrown into the water.
FCA lecturers Merlinda Bobis and Lotte Latukefu perform with Australian actors and the Bitabaras, a Filipino-Australian family of chanters from the Illawarra. A poetic monologue and opera composed by Sarah de Jong blend with the Pasyon, a traditional style of Philippine chanting. Production is by Jane Ulman and Russell Stapleton. Adapted from Merlinda?s short story Fish-Hair Woman (from her collection White Turtle), River, River is about militarism and singing the dead to sleep. The production received a grant from the ABC Regional Fund in 2005.
Leap, 29 March until 9 April, comprises of a collection of works by Third Year Visual Arts students and Lecturers. Leap explores an array of mediums and conceptual subject matter including painting, printmaking, sculpture, textiles and photography.
The exhibition will be on display from 29 March until 9 April at the Project Contemporary Art Space, 225 Keira Street, Wollongong.
In dedication and memory of talented class mate Tina Elliot.
Congratulations to Journalism Lecturer David Blackall, whose documentary film Delinquent Angel, which was broadcast by SBS TV and was screened in the Sydney Film Festival and with Cinema Nova in Melbourne 2000 and 2001, will be distributed throughout India by the Magic Lantern Foundation.
Congratulations to Michael Mucci for winning the Packing Room Prize in Sydney's prestigious Archibald.
Mucci's painting of the celebrity home renovator, A Working Class Man, has won the 2006 Packing Room prize, an award judged by the backroom staff who pack and hang the Archibald Prize entries. Mucci, illustration lecturer and SMH political illustrator, said he was "really happy" to be named the winner and proud to share the honour with Scott Cam.
The UOW Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gerard Sutton has awarded a Challenge grant to a Faculty of Creative Arts project, Sonic Architecture: Mapping the Ancient Theatre through Sound and Image.
The $10 000 grant will support travel of key researchers, equipment and a multi-media exhibition, and has been developed through the Sonic Arts Research Network with the support of Associate Professor Greg Schiemer.
Since 1996, Diana Wood Conroy with members of the Faculty of Creative Arts have contributed to the University of Sydney?s Paphos Theatre Excavation, Cyprus, directed by Professor Richard Green of the Department of Classics and Archaeology. This year, 2006, marks the tenth and final year of excavation of the theatre. The Paphos Theatre Excavation will take place during 1 April - 15 May 2006.
The visual and material aspects of the ancient theatre have been closely studied for over ten years, but no examination of its acoustics, its primary ancient function has been possible until now.
The project relates acoustics to archaeological drawing and photography. It asks, how might an understanding of the ancient theatre give contemporary artists new imaginative insights in working at the cutting edge of electronic technologies? The way in which site topology can be mapped into acoustic properties is a key question. We hope to re-create architectural spaces suitable for live performances of many theatrical genres across the disciplines of the FCA.
The theatre in antiquity brought together all the arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, poetry, music, song, drama) as the central point of communication and ritual. We hope the research will allow an understanding of the dimensions of the past and construct a parallel cross-disciplinary alliance in the 21st century.
The FCA team at the University of Sydney Excavation in April 2006:
Associate Professor Diana Wood Conroy will lead the UOW team to Paphos. Her work concerns fresco fragments and small finds.
Brogan Bunt, Senior Lecturer, will explore possibilities of the visual spaces of the theatre as a multi-layered virtual realm.
Dr Ian McGrath, Honorary Fellow will take measurements of the architecture to re-create sound as it was heard in the ancient theatre.
Doctoral candidate Ms Diane Epoff will make a digital photographic map of the site, following on from her intensive mapping of the site of Bundanon on the south coast.
Four graduates (2005) from the School of Art and Design have committed themselves to the excavation team in Paphos in April 2006, entirely self funded. These graduates are Cameron Candy, Matt Dalton, Amanda Hodder and Amanda Muscat.
