Project Artists
Kathy Hinde, UK
Kathy Hinde’s work grows from a partnership between nature and technology expressed through audio-visual installations and performances that combine sound, sculpture, image and light. Drawing on inspiration from behaviours and phenomena found in the natural world, she creates work that is generative; that evolves; that can be different each time it is experienced. Kathy aims to create work that gives rise to a poetic and reflective experience that enriches an appreciation of the everyday, inviting a heightened awareness of the world around us.
Kathy frequently works in collaboration with other practitioners and scientists and often actively involves the audience in the creative process. She has created light and sound installations in public spaces, including urban streets, woodlands and forests.
She has shown work extensively across Europe, China, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, USA, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. Awards include an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2015; runner up for the PIARS Sonic Arts Award in 2014; long listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize in 2014 and 2018; a British Composer Award in Sonic Art in 2017; an ORAM award in 2017; and a Scottish Award for New Music for Collaboration with Maja Ratkje in 2018. She became a Cryptic Artist in 2015, was a selected artist for European SHAPE Platform for innovative music and audiovisual art in 2018 and is a member of Bristol Experimental Expanded Film collective.
2. Luke George, VIC
Luke George creates new choreographic work that takes daring and at times, unorthodox methods, to explore new intimacies and connections between artist and audience.
Based in Narrm-Melbourne, Luke was born and raised in Tasmania and is of English, Irish, Scottish and Syrian descent. Luke's ancestors arrived to the island in the first waves of colonisation, and have lived there, on the lands of the Palawa Peoples for seven generations.
Luke creates and performs work locally and internationally/culturally, through experimental processes with collaborating artists and the public.
Luke’s major works include the seminal ‘NOW NOW NOW’ (2011) and critically acclaimed ‘Bunny’ (co-creation with Daniel Kok, 2016). He has created numerous national and international commissions, including ‘Not About Face’ for The Chocolate Factory Theater (New York City, 2014), ‘Erotic Dance’ for Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris, 2015) and ‘Public Actions’ for the Keir Choreographic Awards (2018) and Dance Massive (2019). Luke and Collaborators’ works are presented widely in Australia, France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Norway, Finland, Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada and U.S.A.
3. Matt Warren, TAS
https://thesmallhours.wordpress.com
Matt is a Hobart-based electronic media artist, musician, curator, radio presenter and writer. He teaches electronic media sessionally at University of Tasmania's Centre for the Arts and is the former Gallery Coordinator at INFLIGHT artist run initiative. His art practice encompasses immersive electronic installation, single channel video and sound works. The works investigate memory, transcendence, liminal spaces and suspension of disbelief. His music practice has a basis in both composition and improvisation. He is interested in the results of chance combination and random actions, and at times utilises nonsensical or portmanteau texts. Matt considers his practice as part of a greater context currently aligned to neo-psychedelia, digital abstraction and hauntology.
In 1999 Matt received a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship to undertake Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice research at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. In 2009 Matt completed PhD research in time-based media at University of Tasmania. Matt has exhibited, produced sound works and had screenings in Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, New Zealand, USA and throughout Australia. He has held residencies with Jean-Yves Theriault in Montreal, Canada, with Damo Suzuki in Koln, Germany, at Raw Space in Brisbane and multiple residencies at CESTA (Tabor, Czech Republic).
NB: The remaining three experimental practice artists will be identified via a public call out.
Curators
Unconscious Collective
www.unconsciouscollective.org
The Unconscious Collective was established by David Patman and Michelle Boyde in Hobart, Tasmania 2014 as an ongoing collaboration of artists with expertise and experience in sound, movement, contemporary and digital art and design. Their work explores hypnagogic and liminal states such as dreams, visions, reverie and wonder, and their significance as a shared experience that may reflect broader social narratives and concerns, and as catalysts for connection. Unconscious Collective also work on large-scale multi-site projects in regional areas using a participatory approach to reimagine and provoke new understandings of place.
Recent Unconscious Collective projects directed by Michelle and David include:
Pipe Dreams (2018) Speculative art and architecture project (with Future Method Studio) reimagining the remote Lake Margaret power station site on Tasmania’s West Coast as an artist-led experimental centre for generation and regeneration
Crossing (2017) 200km multimedia installation and contemporary art pilgrimage across 6 neo-gothic churches in the Tasmanian midlands for Dark Mofo
Colloquy of Hearts (2017) design and construction of 'cardiophonic' furniture for the Menzies Institute for Medical Research
Hypnapod (2016-17) installation of an experimental live audio-visual artwork generated by the collective heartbeats of snoozing audience members, for MPavilion and Mona Foma
Unconformist Radio (2016) a pop-up AM radio station providing an immersive sonic background for the Unconformity festival in Queenstown Tasmania
FLUX (2017) a collaborative multimedia project (with Liquid Architecture) for the Unconformity featuring a program of local and international artists, musicians and poets where audiences and artists were invited to reclaim an old limestone quarry in the heart of Queenstown, transforming it into an experimental singing bowl
Forest of Dreams (2016), a Tasmanian Public Art scheme commission for the rebuild of bush fire-damaged Dunalley Primary School, sculptural forms and a soundscape generated from the dreams of students
Wild at Heart (2015), a 2 night wilderness sleepover and curated road trip at Cradle Mountain exploring contemporary narratives of 'the wilderness inside', in partnership with Dark Mofo
Motel Dreaming (2014), an experimental social sleeping and dreaming event with room service, for Dark Mofo
Wall of Shame (2013), a virtual confessional and live performance for Dark Mofo
David Patman - Co-artistic direction
David Patman David is a social theorist, digital artist and consultant who studies and works with the social dynamics of groups and communities. Qualified as an engineer (B.E Hons - Utas), and with a PhD in social theory (University of Melbourne), David is interested in the sociology and cybernetics of dreams and the unconscious mind: both its function as a social practice and the value as a source of information about, and influence on, social cohesion and dynamics. As an artist, David works in digital media (in collaboration with New York-based developer Noah Pedrini) and participatory art events. In 2014, with Michelle Boyde, he initiated multidisciplinary group collaboration the Unconscious Collective (UnCo) to develop and present participatory artworks dealing with dreams, reverie, wonder and other liminal states.
Michelle Boyde - Co-artistic direction and design
Michelle Boyde is an Australian artist, designer and curator based in Tasmania. With an honours degree in Design from RMIT and a background in dance and Oriental Health Therapies, she is interested in how art and design can be used to promote wellbeing through playful, inter-connected and spatially dynamic spaces. As co-founder and designer for Unconscious Collective since 2014, she has developed and presented a series of interactive, large scale live art and installation works across Tasmania and Melbourne for Mona, Dark Mofo, Menzies Institute, Melbourne Fashion Week and MPavilion. Between 2013-16 Michelle presented a series of interior installations as Brustman+Boyde with Danielle Brustman for iconic venues Bakehouse Studios and Spacecraft Studios Melbourne, as well as the Eat, Drink, Design Awards-nominated Salty Dog Hotel in Tasmania. She is currently Tasmanian editor for Garland, an online journal devoted to the promotion and connection of art and design across the Asia Pacific region.
The Unconformity
Travis Tiddy, Artistic Director
Travis Tiddy is a fifth-generation West Coast Tasmanian who is deeply invested in an arts-led revival of his community. The founding director of the biennial Queenstown Heritage and Arts Festival (now The Unconformity), Travis is an award-winning designer, director and community arts and cultural development practitioner. Travis holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication (First Class Hons) through University of Tasmania (2005), the Gallaugher Bequest Churchill Fellowship (2011), and the Premier’s Young Achiever in Tourism Award (2014) and is the final recipient of the Claudio Alcorso International Residency (2019). Travis has held governance roles in numerous arts organisations such as Deputy Chair of Tasmanian Regional Arts, a director of Ten Days on the Island Festival, a member of the TasTAFE Event Education Reference Panel and the Contemporary Art Tasmania Programming Committee.