think tank
The Splendid Think Tank is a two-day event bringing together contemporary art practitioners with key festival representatives from across Australia, to explore the risks and rewards of embracing new art, ideas and experience in a festival context.
As a finale showcase event for the Splendid program, the Think Tank is a way to connect with and fuel future collaborations between festival directors and artists.
The Think Tank will explore Splendid Arts Lab as an exportable model for developing conceptually strong, interdisciplinary, large-scale public artworks that are participatory and can be marketed effectively to mass audiences.
Keynote Address: Brian Ritchie
How do festivals act as experimental spaces for new cultural forms, new technologies, and new modes of audience engagement?
Splendid Showcase Panel Discussion
Meet the partners, provocateurs and artists behind one of the country’s most innovative emerging artist programs, and get a taste of why festivals around Australia are approaching them for advice on commissioning and touring cutting edge engaging work.
Exploring Art in the Festival Context Panel Discussion
An exploration of art-making for different festival spaces and audiences, presented from the perspective of both festival and artist, and across multiple festival formats including location based art festivals, community festivals, emerging artist programs and music festivals.
- BRIAN RITCHIE, Founding member of Violent Femmes & Curator MONA FOMA Festival of Music & Art, TAS
- CRAIG WALSH, Artist & Curator, Splendour in the Grass, QLD
- MARCUS CANNING, CEO ARTRAGE, Perth Fringe Festival, WA
- LISA HAVILAH, CEO Carriageworks, NSW
- IMOGEN SEMMLER, Artistic Director, Underbelly Arts, NSW
- PETER WALSH, Director, Livid, QLD
- RHODA ROBERTS, Creative Director of Rhoda Roberts Events; Producer & Festival Director for Boomerang 2012 and Dillybag Festivals
- JYLLIE JACKSON, Artistic Director of LightnUp Inc, and Lismore Lantern Parade.
MC: Sandra Bender (SBS TV)
splendidthinktank.org/program/
