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| Exploring water — as a topic and metaphor — Waterwheel is an interactive, collaborative platform for sharing media and ideas, performance and presentation. Investigating and celebrating this constant yet volatile global resource, fundamental element, environmental issue, political dilemma, universal theme and symbol of life, this newly launched website encourages you to explore and discover, share and collaborate, contribute and participate. Waterwheel calls on everyone to test the water, dive in, make a splash and start a wave. | |||
| The project, initiated by Suzon Fuks and developed in collaboration with Inkahoots and Igneous, fosters creativity, collaboration and inter-cultural-generational exchange. “There are many levels to engage with the site and the project. Whether you're initiating a project individually or collaborating with others or contributing to an existing one or simply spectating. A curator could get in contact with an artist, or scientists and activists in contact with their colleagues. It's a new mode for expression, exhibition or festival.” says Suzon. | |||
| On the Waterwheel homepage is the Wheel, which rotates and ripples with the latest uploaded media about water: images, video, slideshow, music, text, spreadsheets or sound. Suzon explains the Wheel is made up of concentric rings that represents the latest 40 uploads. Anyone can log-in, and upload, access and comment on that media, and message other users. From there they can go to the Fountains map and the Tap. Powered by the Waterwheel, the Tap is an online, real-time venue and forum, workshop and stage for live networked performance and presentation. Here you can create and collaborate, rehearse and remix, present and exchange, participate and communicate—privately as a crew or publicly with an audience. The Tap provides tools for live networking and real-time media mixing. You can draw from the Wheel and pour back to the Wheel. | |||
| Fountains then map and chronicle everything flowing from the Tap, along with other relevant projects and events. A fountain could be a performance or presentation, an exhibition or conference, a book launch or a film premiere. Promote your project or event. Find other projects around the world. Find upcoming events near you. | |||
| This project is initiated by Suzon Fuks as part of a Fellowship assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; in collaboration with IGNEOUS and INKAHOOTS, supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Brisbane City Council, the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ausdance Queensland, Youth Arts Queensland & iMAL. Creative Sparks is a joint initiative of Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. | This project is initiated by Suzon Fuks as part of a Fellowship assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; in collaboration with IGNEOUS and INKAHOOTS, supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Brisbane City Council, the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ausdance Queensland, Youth Arts Queensland & iMAL. Creative Sparks is a joint initiative of Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. | ||
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Suzon Fuks is an internationally recognised intermedia artist, choreographer and director exploring the integration and interaction of dance and moving image through performance, screen, installation and online work. She is a current recipient of an Australian council Fellowship and her work focuses on screendance and networked performance. She is the founder of Waterwheel, an online open forum space for artist for works of all kinds dedicated to water.
Biography
Born in Belgium, but currently based in Australia, Fuks trained in dance, theatre and music at the Lillian Lambert Academy, Brussels (69-‘76), she completed her Masters in Visual Arts at La Cambre (‘79-‘84). She has been directing for both stage and screen since 1985, directing 14 movement-based intermedia performances, created film/video-scenography/installation for 19 productions, directed and edited 19 films and videos including 13 screen-dances. She received a Green Room Award for Video-Scenography in Theatre (New Form). Her screendance fragmentation was ReelDance finalist, nominated for an Australian Dance on film awardand screened in all continents. Fuks created the film part of the groundbreaking show ‘The Strange Mr Knight’, which toured the world for 5 years (87-92, Adelaide Festival 1990). Moving to Australia in ‘96, she has been co-artistic director of intermedia performance company Igneous since ’97. The culmination of Fuk's final Australia Council Fellowship residency at the Judith Wright Centre was an immersive installation performance which takes the audience through an interactive exploration of water issues, the use of the Waterwheel online platform, physical engagement, and real time collaboration with her online crew from around the world.
She gives lectures, workshops, master classes and labs in Australia, USA, and Europe on the integration of visual media and the performing arts, fostering intermedia artistic collaboration and is currently a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College Mentored in ‘03 by Keith Armstrong (artist)Kelli Dipple and Mike Stubbs on networked performance under an Austrailian council national media arts grant. She continued her research in that field developing and performing in the ’07-‘10 Upstage Festivals,Backyard Dances for Electromog festival10; Live,media and performance lab and participated in ‘10 at EMPAC, NY. at EMP. She is a founding member of cyberformance group ActiveLayers (UK, NZ, Aus). She organised the Brisbane node of DIAL ‘08, a streaming event connecting 5 cities around the world, and organized & coordinated with 8 cities Tank Man Tango streaming ‘09. She has participated in numerous presentations about networked performance – ‘08: DIMEA, Createc seminar, CreateWorld; ‘09: SCANZ; ‘10: Syneme, linux.conf.au, WDA NY, CineDans.
Igneous
SUZON FUKS (multimedia artist, director and photographer) and JAMES CUNNINGHAM (choreographer and performer) have been collaborating artistically since 1993, share the artistic directorship of Brisbane-based multimedia and performance company igneous, and are founding members of the international cyberformance group ActiveLayers. In 2008, they organised the Brisbane node of DIAL (Day In A Life), an international streaming event connecting artists from 5 cities around the world initiated by Horst Konietzny.
Igneouss the collaborative idea of Fuks and James Cunningham.They began work in 1997 creating multimedia movement based performances for the stage, screen and many other spaces, they also work with documentary photography as well as conducting forums, masterclasses and workshops.
Igneous state that there interest lie in process, interaction, diversity and challenging values and with international residences which allows them to collaborate more freely with artist from many different areas of study.These included Brisbane Powerhouse, Department of performance studies at The University of Sydney, Australian choreographic Centre in Canberra,, Dance4 Nottingham University of Brighton and as far Kochi (India) where they worked with Asialink
Water-Wheel
This project is initiated by Suzon Fuks as part of a Fellowship assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; in collaboration with IGNEOUS and INKAHOOTS, supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Brisbane City Council, the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ausdance Queensland, Youth Arts Queensland & iMAL. Creative Sparks is a joint initiative of Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Water-wheel calls on everyone—performers and artists, scientists and environmentalists, students and academics, you and me, anyone and anywhere—to test the water, dive in, make a splash and start a wave. It provides a platform and forum for experience and exchange, expression and experimentation. Waterwheel draws together different people, practices, places, media and modes of expression. There are no borders or boundaries. Waterwheel flows along its natural course.
References
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- "01 – May – 2010 – Diving the frame". Suzonfuks.net. 2010-05-01. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- "EMPAC.live.media+performance.LAB". Empaclivemediaperformancelab.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- "ActiveLayers". Igneous.org.au. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- Igneous.org.
- "Department of Performance Studies - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - The University of Sydney - Australia". Sydney.edu.au. 2011-11-07. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- "Farewell to The Australian Choreographic Centre". ql2.org.au. 2011-10-22. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- http://www.dance4.co.uk/