Artist in Residence Program

Artists selected for 2004:

School of Journalism and Creative Writing...

Pi O (13th - 24th September 2004)

Pi O was born in Thessolonikki, Greece in July 1951 and came to Australia in 1954. From the Bonegilla Migrant Camp his parents moved to Fitzroy, Melbourne. After a year at LaTrobe University in the early 70s he became a drafting assistant for the Victorian Titles Office where he has remained ever since. About the same time as income earning commenced he began writing poetry. A television program featuring Johnny Cash had the singer receiting a piece of doggeral and in what would prove typical fashion Pi O announced "Well if this is poetry I can do better than that!" Over 30 years and over a dozen books later he is established as one of Australia's most passionate and entertaining poets. The areas of poetry covered by Pi O include the oral tradition, the aural tradition, performance poetry, narrative verse, dialect poetry, poetry set in the workplace, poetry set in the world of Australia's postwar migrant (especially Greek) communities, political poetry with special reference to his anarchist background and beliefs, love poetry and poetry where words and letters are replaced by numbers. Pi has toured his poetry through the United States and has attended the Medellin Poetry Festival in Columbia. In 2003 he attended the Berlin Poetry Festival and is involved with the 22nd Greek Festival of Sydney (Radio National broadcasts) 2004.

Jane Ullman (3 - 14th May)

An accomplished sound artist, Jane Ulman is a program maker in the ABC Audio Arts unit. She has produced performance works, documentaries, features, wildlife recordings, mainly for 'The Listening Room' which specialised in sound art and audio experimentation. She has also produced soundscapes and installations for arts and music festivals.

School of Music and Drama...

Since 1998, Alicia has been a director, performer and production manager with Circus Monoxide. She is now a full-time performer and Projects Manager with Circus Monoxide. Since the company moved to a training facility provided by Wollongong City Council in 2000, Alicia has also worked with Circus WOW (Wollongong’s women’s circus) as trainer, director and industry liaison.
During her stay at the Faculty, Alicia will produce/direct a devised performance entitled "The Show Must Go On" - a story of an Australian circus set in the late 1960's against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. With several vital members of the circus at war, the remaining cast members struggle to find how the show can continue without them. Live music, lots of slapstick and a zany hell for leather fight sequence.
> more about the show
> more images of 'Rodney'

Assoc. Prof. Kevin Orr (July 2004)
Dr. Kevin Orr, Asst. Prof. of Piano and Piano Pedagogy at the University of Florida and Director of the University of Florida young Pianists Festival, will be working with our 2nd and 3rd year students as well as presenting 2 free concerts in the Wollongong area.
Concert 1: Thursday 22nd July at 12:30 pm at the UOW in building 25.107 (the CAT).
Concert 2: Sunday 25th July 2:30 pm Wesley Uniting Church, Crown St. Wollongong.
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Iain Mott (6th -17th September)

Artist, Composer, Sound Designer, Sound Scupltor, Systems Developer and Installation Artist
URL: http://www.reverberant.com
Iain Mott is a sound artist working in the field of computer-based, interactive installation. These installations examine the physical relationships of participants with sound, sometimes placing them in performance roles or drawing their attention to their own physicality within the acoustic space. He has exhibited nationally in Australia and internationally at exhibitions including the 1998 Ars Electronica festival in Austria. Iain was the 1999-2000 Artist in Residence at the CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences. At the CSIRO he worked on projects as diverse as immersive-video installation, touch sensitive virtual environments with 3-D audio and a database-centred installation for the collection, storage and resynthesis of human speech.
During Iain's stay at the Faculty of Creative Arts Iain will present his mobile sound installation consisting of four suitcases mounted on castors. Each suitcase contains microcontroller hardware interconnected via a GPS system and amplifies sound that changes in various ways as performers drag them round paved areas between buildings.

Bernard Lanskey (29th March-2nd April)

Bernard Lanskey is Assistant Director of Music and Head of Postgraduate Music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Born in Cairns, Australia, Bernard first studied music, philosophy and mathematics at the University of Queensland, before undertaking more specialised pianistic studies at the Schola Cantorum in Paris and at the Royal College of Music, London. For the past four years he has worked with the television journalist, John Suchet, with whom he has toured Great Britain offering a lecture recital presentation, Beethoven: The Last Master. He has also worked closely for many years with the Australian composer Andrew Schultz of whose works he has given many first performances including Sea-Change (1987) and Twelve Variations (1997) which he commissioned. A CD of four-hand piano music by Brahms, Schubert and Schultz, The Inner Line, which was recorded with Stephen Emmerson for Tall Poppies, was released in July 2001.
Bernard is performing in the 'Twilight at Riversdale' Chamber Music Concert at the Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale, on Saturday April 10th at 5pm. > more information

School of Art and Design...

The Japanese art of shibori has been refined and perfected over many centuries. Stitches are threaded through a cloth and drawn in, producing a tight concertina. Arranging the stitches in patterns the fabric is then dyed. Releasing the stitches after the dyeing process reveals markings.
Originally a designer in fabric screen printing, Keiko Amenomori-Schmeisser (born in Japan, trained in Germany and living in Australia) was attracted to the unique craft of shibori and was taught the first principles by Hiroyuko Shindo, a visiting Japanese master.
Living outside Japan and the shibori communities has allowed Keiko to experiment with materials, colours and techniques.

> image on right: "Energy and Restraint" Shibori, dye and paint.

Three Yolngu artists, Watjumi (Marrnyula) Munungurr, Dhangal Gurruwiwi, and Djapirri Mununggurritj, whose work is represented in the Tracking cloth exhibition at the Wollongong city Gallery are currently artists in residence at the Faculty of Creative Arts. As part of their residency they will be working on developing designs to be reproduced on cloth, an ongoing artistic exchange with Sue Blanchfield, visual arts lecturer in the textile studio. The exchange with the Yirrkala artists began in 1995 with a workshop in resist dying and batik conducted in the community. Successive workshops in printmaking on cloth and prints on paper were also conducted in Yirrkala throughout 1996 with many of the artists coming to Wollongong to make use of the studio facilities in the faculty. In 2001 Sue returned to Yirrkala and worked with the three artists specifically to produce the three works to be included in the Tracking Cloth exhibition. (The three Yolngu women will be here from 26th March - 2nd April)