IN-VIEW at UTP

The recent call-out for the 2010 Intersection Residency proposals brought an interesting range of emerging artists and ideas to the attention of the UTP team. Whilst unable to support each artist or idea through a residency, UTP Artistic Associate, lina Kastoumis will facilitate a program of support for emerging artists through a new initiative called In-View.

In-View is a fortnightly, practical drop-in that offers artistic advice, development and creative process planning and delivery to participating artists. The In-View working group will receive regular conceptual, dramaturgical and technical mentorship in a peer environment. It is hoped that In-View program will culminate in a showing of short works in progress. It begins in mid-November.

 Want to be updated about the fruits of this initiative?  Contact lina@urbantheatre.com.au

UTP hosted a new team of artists who completed  the first stage of research & development on their INTERSECTION 2009 residency project, The State We Are In.
Rosie Deniss, Jeff Stein and Paul Gazzola spent a month in Bankstown researching and developing ideas for a new site specific work. Examining the ground between public and private space together with questions of intimacy and public exposure – the team had a great time getting out and about Bankstown and managed to lure quite a few locals to create their own YouTube clips. You can catch all of these clips by clicking onto the State We Are In channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/statewearein .
Fingers crossed, Rosie, Paul and Jeff will be back in Bankstown in 2010 to further develop their project.

http://statewearein.blogspot.com/

HIGH RISE (Working Title)
An Interdisciplinary Research Consortium – Auburn Central High Rise complex - September 2009.

 UTP Artistic Associate, lina Kastoumis invited a diverse group of practitioners to participate in a two day research consortium at Auburn Central. Initially inspired by the silence surrounding the recent murder of two Chinese immigrant women in the high rise complex, the project sought to investigate social connection and disconnection and the mechanics of silence and communication in a densely populated urban site.
 
Artists were; Fadia Abboud (Filmaker/Digital Artist), Paul Gazzola  (Architect/Installation/Performance artist), Roslyn Oades (Actor/Verbatim Theatre Devisor/Director), Khaled Sabsabi (Sound/Video/Installation Artist). They will worked in consultation with Auburn Community Development Networks’ Omeima Sukkarieh and Layla Naji.

The initial research findings have opened up the developmental potential of what lina sees is a true interdisciplinary work. UTP is now scheduling a longer stage of research and development for the first half of 2010.

POSTS IN THE PADDOCK

UTP and My Darling Patricia (MDP) are co-producing a creative development process for a new performance, Posts in the Paddock. Harnessing MDP’s poetically savage visual imagery and performance making, the project is a collaboration with Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, with a direct family connection to the story of Jimmy Governor. The first stage of the creative development process concluded in June with a showing at Casula Powerhouse and the work is scheduled to premier in 2011.  MDP undertook ther research and development for this interdisciplinary project as part of UTP’s Intersection Residency program in 2008.

For more information about My Darling Patricia, please visit their website www.mydarlingpatricia.com