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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 (as of 2012) 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 15 movement-based intermedia performances, created film/video-scenography/installation for 21 productions, directed and edited 26 films and videos including 16 screen-dances and co-devised 15 online performance interactive works. She received a Green Room Award for Video-Scenography in Theatre (New Form). Her screendance 'fragmentation' was nominated for a ReelDance award in 2007 and also nominated for an Australian Dance on film award which screened on all continents. Fuks created the film part of the show The Strange Mr Knight, which toured the world for five years (87-92, Adelaide Festival 1990). Moving to Australia in 96, she has been co-artistic director of intermedia performance company Igneous since 1997. The culmination of Fuks' 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, US, 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 Australian 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, New York. 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 five cities around the world, and organized and coordinated with eight 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 New York, CineDans.

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

In 2011 she established Waterwheel, a project which describes itself as "an interactive, collaborative platform for sharing media and ideas, performance and presentation" which "provides a platform and forum for experience and exchange, expression and experimentation". This project was initiated by Fuks as part of a Arts Council Fellowship assisted by the Australian Government; in collaboration with IGNEOUS and IKHOOTS and supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Brisbane City Council, the Judith Wright Center for performing arts, Ausdance Queensland, and iMAL. She was a Creative Sparks grant recipient in 2011, a joint initiative of Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. In March 2008 she formed ActiveLayers along with Liz Bryce, James Cunningham and Cherry Truluck. ActiveLayers collaborate on experimental cross-disciplinary works that have layers of meaning and push the boundaries of the different media involved. It combines the disciplines of theatre, dance, video and visual arts not only through digital media but also in the method of working an idea. They challenge the ideas of location and 'site,' using the places where they happen to be (local site) combined with a variety of media and performance software that allows them to work together in real time from their different physical locations and across different time zones.

References

  1. Suzon Fuks.net
  2. Camila Perry says: (2009-09-06). "screendance – intro – Diving the frame". Suzonfuks.net. Retrieved 2012-02-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  3. Amherst College.
  4. Like. "networked performance - mentorship 2003 on Vimeo". Vimeo.com. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
  5. "01 – May – 2010 – Diving the frame". Suzonfuks.net. 2010-05-01. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
  6. "EMPAC.live.media+performance.LAB". Empaclivemediaperformancelab.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
  7. "ActiveLayers". Igneous.org.au. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
  8. Igneous.org.
  9. "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.
  10. "Farewell to The Australian Choreographic Centre". ql2.org.au. 2011-10-22. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
  11. http://www.dance4.co.uk/
  12. "About". Waterwheel. Retrieved 2012-10-28.
  13. "Supporters". Waterwheel. Retrieved 2012-10-28.
  14. www.Igneous.org/activelayers-bios

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