provocateurs
Fernandos Llanos
Considered one of the most distinguished Mexican artists in the use of video, his work moves between the creation of video, email art, video action and drawing. He has presented his work in more than twenty countries, including the Guggenheim Museum (New York), Montreal’s New Film and New Media Festival, World Wide Video Festival (Amsterdam), Transmediale (Berlin), Interference (France), Videochro-niques (Marseille), Kunst-Werke de Berlin & Bienal do Mercosul (Brazil).
He has realised more than 15 curatorial projects on video, presented at the Museum Tamayo, the International Festival of Contemporary Cinema Mexico City & the Caixa Forum Barcelona. Llanos has published four books: Cursiagridulce (Trilce, 2006), Manchuria (Diamantina, 2007), Videoman (Ediciones Necias, 2008) and Preguntas (Ediciones Necias, 2009).
He is member of the National System of Creators in Mexico.
Paul Gazzola operates an interdisciplinary practice of over 20 years at the interface of art, architecture, performance and theory in the creation of performances, videos, choreographies, set designs, texts, sculptural and multi-media installations for stages, galleries and site-specific settings as well as in various dramaturgical and curatorial roles. Since 1988 an extensive body of work has seen presentations and commissions for festivals in Australia, South Africa, South America, Japan, Canada and throughout Europe. Originally trained as a carpenter, he has a B.A. in Performance, is a qualified a Feldenkrais practitioner and in 2004 commenced studies in architecture. The culmination of these varied inquiries, each exploring the connection/intervention between the body and the built form, provide a unique platform of knowledge in his working life.
He also maintains a strong focus on collaborative exchange through his design and performance practice having worked with such artists as Rosie Dennis, Jeff Stein, Xavier Le Roy, Meg Stuart, Tino Sehgal, Joao Fiadeiro, The Fondue Set, Alain Platel/Hans Van den Broeck (Les Ballets C de la B) and is a founding and ongoing member of Lone Twin Theatre (UK).
Current projects for 2011/12 include: The video project – Negotiate Bankstown, Free Radical for Generating the Impossible – Montreal, one of 12 selected international artists for the Prague Quadrennial Open Scenographic Lab, Return to Sender – concept and curation with Jeff Kahn – PSpace, Sydney and the major project Teaching a New Dog, Old Tricks in collaboration with Paul Granjon, commissioned by the Campbelltown Arts Centre.
He was the coordinating provocateur for the 2010 Splendid Arts Lab and continues in this role for 2011.
Técha Noble has worked in contemporary art and design for the past 10 years. She utilises media and pop culture as a counterpoint in her art collective The Kingpins and works within pop cultural language as a designer. She traverses this complex terrain with a focus on costume and the body. This process and associated output create believable fictions that transmit across album covers, parades, workshops, installations, video work and live performances. She explores transgressive imagery that directly relate to gender and the female subject both within a gallery context and in the media sphere. Engaging audience in a collective experience, creating functional objects and site specific approaches to artmaking are a core element of her work.
The Kingpins were commissioned for the Liverpool Biennale (2006) Gwangju Biennale (2004) and Taipei Biennale (2004). They have exhibited and commissioned performances pieces at Musée D’Art Moderne Paris (2008) Kunsthaus Zurich (2007) and the Palais De Tokyo (2006) They have also had commissioned performances/ installation works by curators Jerome Sans and Nicolas Bourriaud for Nuit Blanche in (2006) Paris and by Jeffery Deitch for Deitch Projects Live at Art Basel Miami in (2008) alongside rock band The Gossip. There work has been widely exhibited across Australia at The Australian Centre for Moving Image, Artspace Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art and Art Gallery of NSW.
Lynda Roberts is a design and arts practitioner interested in the strategic development and creative production of cultural events and community spaces – with an emphasis on socially driven collaborative processes and temporal outcomes within the public realm.
Drawing on a background of architecture, public art and education, Lynda’s current practice ranges in scale from urban curation to the wearable object. Her work strives to empower and engage a range of stakeholders by developing frameworks or armatures that act as platforms for prompting conversation and establishing an empathetic awareness of one’s environment.
Over the past ten years, Lynda has gained experience across a variety of projects – from facilitator of a public art and design incubator within Melbourne Central Shopping Centre to teacher at RMIT School of Architecture and Design; Arts + décor manager for the Great Escape / Cockatoo Island Festivals to the design of FBi radio and Metro Screen facilities in Sydney. Lynda is currently principal of Public Assembly and Senior Arts Coordinator at RMIT Link Arts & Culture. She was also a provocateur for Splendid in 2010.
http://www.publicassembly.com.au
http://www.link.rmit.edu.au/arts_program.html
