Expand: Make|Shift Artist Talk

Image credit: Margie Medlin

July 28, 12-1pm

The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (enter via the main foyer)

Cost: Free

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The Mill invites you to the Make|Shift Artist Talk and mini-doco screening where you can hear from some of the artists about their practice and process. The talk will feature exhibiting artists Ray Harris and Tanya Voges and will be chaired by The Mill’s CEO/Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff and Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas. Artist James Alberts will also chat about his contribution to the exhibition and will screen his mini-documentary made about the Make|Shift process.

Make|Shift is an immersive and experimental exhibition of projection art as part of Illuminate Adelaide. The exhibition features digital image and projection based work by six South Australian multidisciplinary artists; James Alberts, Ray Harris, Sarah Neville, Liam Somerville, Inneke Taal and Tanya Voges, with Margie Medlin as Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator supported by artistic mentorship from Illuminart’s Cindi Drennan and Tim Gruchy.

The Make|Shift exhibition will be open for viewing across The Mill’s Exhibition Space and Showcase galleries, The Breakout and outdoor spaces. 

• About the program

  Make|Shift is part of The Mill’s Expand program, a responsive process and development program, with interest in challenging artists to explore interdisciplinary, site-specific and audience-focused new work.

  Expand supports artists to explore different modes of collaborating and encourages peer-learning. It enables risk taking, experimentation and freedom of expression in the creation and realisation of new works.

  Expand invites audiences to not only appreciate, but actively participate in the practice of art-making through artists talks, Q&A’s and public workshops.

  The exhibition has been developed through Expand’s Cinematic Experiments: Projection Techniques and Technologies program.

• Artist Talk speakers

  James Alberts, aka Jimblah, is a Larrakia Brother who specialises in activating community & using the power of creative space to bring about healing, joy, and play where Community and Country are concerned. James is a music producer, vocalist, photographer & cinematographer, and utilises Song & Story to help uplift and transform Community for the better, and has close to 20 years of experience working within the First Nations sector, in particular youth spaces, all across the Country.

  Ray Harris is an Adelaide artist working in video, performance and installation exploring the psychological complexities and struggles of the self. She is also a curator, advocate and initiator of projects and studios. Ray is committed to furthering the SA arts through participation, support, spaces and opportunities. She has a Master’s degree from UNI SA has won several grants and awards and has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally including: the Samstag Museum, AEAF, Adelaide Festival Hugo Michell Gallery, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Casula Powerhouse, Brenda May Gallery, Pirimid Sanat and Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair (Turkey) and SEEAF Art Festival (South Korea). Her work is held in The Borusan Collection and Project 4L- Elgiz Museum Collection, Turkey and private collections in Australia and has featured in publications such as Artlink, Art Collector, Broadsheet, Real time, and ETC magazine Canada. Ray led, curated (2 co-curated) and managed 3 group exhibitions and performance events at Holy Rollers, and Led, initiated, developed and executed Neoteric, a 20 mid-career SA group exhibition with 20 writers in Adelaide Festival, 2022. Ray was a co-director of FELTspace ARI from 2010 to 15, the co-founder of Peer studios, founder and director of Holy Rollers Studios, Prospect and now The Third Level Studios in the Adelaide CBD.

  Interdisciplinary artist Tanya Voges brings her experience in dance, drawing, community engagement and dance film making to make multimedia performance works, live dance pieces and dance for screen. A 2004 graduate of Victorian College of the Arts, Tanya is currently back at the University of Melbourne undertaking a Master’s in Dance Movement Therapy. The cross over between arts and health has been a common theme in the community engagement works Tanya has created in recent years especially as Artist in Residence at Flinders Medical Centre Arts-in-Health (2020 & 2021) where she developed Drawn to Movement and Dance for Tender Times particularly with the patient experience in mind. Other residencies have been through Australian Dance Theatre (2021), The Mill (2020) and Guildhouse/SA Museum Tracing the Anthropocene (2020), Critical Path (2014), BigCI(2014) and Bundanon (2011 & 2013). Recent collaborations with Artist Louise Flaherty and Musician Belinda Gehlert have led to participatory performances in the Parklands (2020), Adelaide Botanic Gardens (2021 Nature Fest), Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens (2022 Fringe) and a new work for Lobethal Bushland Park (April 2023 Fabrik). As an advocate for dance for all ages Tanya facilitates choreography, contemporary dance and improvisation for Adelaide Festival Centre, Tafe SA, Restless Dance Theatre, Flinders Medical Centre and Carclew.

• Accessibility

  The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street. Unfortunately, the main entrance is not accessible, as it has a small step from the pavement.

  Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team you would like to come into the building.

  A member of The Mill team sit in the foyer Monday to Friday and can assist you with access to our wheelchair accessible entrance.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

  If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact us via email

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This project has support from

Expand: Make|Shift Access Tours

Image credit: Margie Medlin

July 9, 2023

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

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The Mill invites you to experience Make|Shift via one of two access tours:

11am: Auslan interpreted, guided tour

The Mill invites the Deaf community to join us for an Auslan interpreted, guided tour of the Make|Shift exhibition for Deaf and hearing-impaired audiences. In this tour members of the Make|Shift artistic team will talk about the exhibition and the meaning of the artwork, with Auslan interpreters from DeafConnect translating.

1pm: Audio description tour

The Mill invites audiences who are blind or have low vision to join us for an audio-described guided tour of the Make|Shift exhibition. In this tour members of the Make|Shift artistic team will talk about the exhibition and the meaning of the artwork, and the describers will supply visual descriptions of the work and facilitate any touching of artworks/reference objects. Presented with Access2Arts

Make|Shift is an immersive and experimental exhibition of projection art as part of Illuminate Adelaide. The exhibition features digital image and projection based work by six South Australian multidisciplinary artists; James Alberts, Ray Harris, Sarah Neville, Liam Somerville, Inneke Taal and Tanya Voges, with Margie Medlin as Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator supported by artistic mentorship from illuminart’s Cindi Drennan and Tim Gruchy.

The Make|Shift exhibition will be open for viewing across The Mill’s Exhibition Space and Showcase galleries, The Breakout and outdoor spaces. 

• About the program

  Make|Shift is part of The Mill’s Expand program, a responsive process and development program, with interest in challenging artists to explore interdisciplinary, site-specific and audience-focused new work.

  Expand supports artists to explore different modes of collaborating and encourages peer-learning. It enables risk taking, experimentation and freedom of expression in the creation and realisation of new works. Expand invites audiences to not only appreciate, but actively participate in the practice of art-making through artists talks, Q&A’s and public workshops.

  The exhibition has been developed through Expand’s  Cinematic Experiments: Projection Techniques and Technologies program.

• About the artists

  Item description

• Accessibility

  The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.

  Unfortunately, the main entrance is not accessible, as it has a small step from the pavement.

  Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team you would like to come into the building.

  A member of The Mill team sit in the foyer Monday to Friday and can assist you with access to our wheelchair accessible entrance.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

  If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact us via email

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This project has support from

Expand: Make|Shift Forum

Image credit: Margie Medlin

July 9, 3pm

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $15 (+ booking fee)

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The Mill invites you to the Make|Shift Forum where you can hear from the artists about their practice and process. The forum will feature a panel of exhibiting artists and will be chaired by Artistic and Curatorial Facilitator Margie Medlin and The Mill’s CEO/Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff (live captioned and live streamed).

Make|Shift is an immersive and experimental exhibition of projection art as part of Illuminate Adelaide. The exhibition features digital image and projection based work by six South Australian multidisciplinary artists; James Alberts, Ray Harris, Sarah Neville, Liam Somerville, Inneke Taal and Tanya Voges, with Margie Medlin as Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator supported by artistic mentorship from illuminart’s Cindi Drennan and Tim Gruchy.

The Make|Shift exhibition will be open for viewing across The Mill’s Exhibition Space and Showcase galleries, The Breakout and outdoor spaces. 

• About the program

  Make|Shift is part of The Mill’s Expand program, a responsive process and development program, with interest in challenging artists to explore interdisciplinary, site-specific and audience-focused new work.

  Expand supports artists to explore different modes of collaborating and encourages peer-learning. It enables risk taking, experimentation and freedom of expression in the creation and realisation of new works.

  Expand invites audiences to not only appreciate, but actively participate in the practice of art-making through artists talks, Q&A’s and public workshops.

  The exhibition has been developed through Expand’s Cinematic Experiments: Projection Techniques and Technologies program.

• Forum speakers

  to be announced

• Accessibility

  The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street. Unfortunately, the main entrance is not accessible, as it has a small step from the pavement.

  Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team you would like to come into the building.

  A member of The Mill team sit in the foyer Monday to Friday and can assist you with access to our wheelchair accessible entrance.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

  If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact us via email

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This project has support from

Expand: Make|Shift Exhibition

Image credit: Inneke Taal

July 8 - 28, 2023

Immersive opening weekend: Saturday, July 8, 6-8pm, and Sunday, July 9, 12-4pm

Free entry

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Make|Shift at The Mill Exhibition Space,
  located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

  The exhibition will run July 8-28. The Exhibition Space will be open:

  Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm

  Saturday-Sunday July 15-16 and 22-23, 4:30pm-7pm.

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The Mill presents Make|Shift, an immersive and experimental exhibition of projection art as part of Illuminate Adelaide. The exhibition features digital image and projection based work by six South Australian multidisciplinary artists; Larrakia man James Alberts, Ray Harris, Sarah Neville, Liam Somerville, Inneke Taal and Tanya Voges, with Margie Medlin as Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator.

Working across dance, performance, visual arts, installation and experimental media the exhibition explores digital and virtual spaces. Make|Shift aims to create a space for the artists to experiment with ways of making and shifting time, place and space. Make|Shift artists are supported by artistic mentorship from illuminart’s Cindi Drennan, and Tim Gruchy.

• Curatorial Statement

  Make|Shift invited artists to explore their approach to formal notions of screen-media in an art gallery context. We invited each other to provoke the boundaries and traditions of photography, the moving image, sculpture, performance, and interaction within screen technologies. In workshops and practice-led discussions, across the gallery, we explored the interstices and intermeshing of these forms.

  As a group we mapped the gallery space as series of sites and surfaces. Projecting along the right angles, adjacent walls, corridors and crevasse of the galleries the moving images to create encounters that dominate the built environment, like geographers, our survey explores the shifting terrains of space, memory, story, and image. The exhibition asks how can cinematic ephemera interact with/in the gallery.

  -Margie Medlin

• Ray Harris

  Spirit Shelf

  On a domestic shelf filled with jars, books and plastic, spirit shelf nods to preserved animals floating in flammable liquid on shelves in museums. But by projecting live animals filmed going about their daily life Spirit shelf speaks to extinction, cruelty, indifference humans have for the other inhabitants of the earth, through our use, abuse, denial, consumption, greed and destruction.

  Much as we are slowly destroying our home, we are rapidly affecting those who innocently live and try to survive and adapt around us. While we treat them with very little regard or relevance, much like the mundane inanimate objects in our pantry or office. Or token special items we hold in higher regard, a much-loved book or pet cat, while others become our endless mass of the unwanted.

  Ray Harris is an Adelaide artist working in video, performance and installation exploring the psychological complexities and struggles of the self. She is also a curator, advocate and initiator of projects and studios. Ray is committed to furthering the SA arts through participation, support, spaces and opportunities. She has a Master’s degree from UNI SA has won several grants and awards and has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally including: the Samstag Museum, AEAF, Adelaide Festival Hugo Michell Gallery, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Casula Powerhouse, Brenda May Gallery, Pirimid Sanat and Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair (Turkey) and SEEAF Art Festival (South Korea). Her work is held in The Borusan Collection and Project 4L- Elgiz Museum Collection, Turkey and private collections in Australia and has featured in publications such as Artlink, Art Collector, Broadsheet, Real time, and ETC magazine Canada. Ray led, curated (2 co-curated) and managed 3 group exhibitions and performance events at Holy Rollers, and Led, initiated, developed and executed Neoteric, a 20 mid-career SA group exhibition with 20 writers in Adelaide Festival, 2022. Ray was a co-director of FELTspace ARI from 2010 to 15, the co-founder of Peer studios, founder and director of Holy Rollers Studios, Prospect and now The Third Level Studios in the Adelaide CBD.

• Sarah Neville

  T = I/I0 Transmittance

  T = I/I0 Transmittance is a daylight simulator that explores the amount of light energy that glass absorbs, scatters, or reflects. The installation is constructed of glass and light, projecting weather as shadow for personal reflection on winter-time ambience in enclosed spaces. In a speculative future world, where underground/ weatherproof living is normal, identifying the psychological importance of dappled light as light fairies on walls will connect with us with seasonal shifts to enhance quality of life.

  Sarah Neville is an Australian choreographer and scenario designer who devises new media performance, instigates inter-disciplinary practices and invests in multi-platform processes and production outcomes. Sarah has created work for Adelaide Festival and Fringe, Ausdance Choreolab, Dance House, Australian Choreographic Centre, ADT’s Ignition season, Strut Dance, Link Dance Company (WAAPA) Vitalstatistix, MOD UniSA and the Venice Biennale 2019. In 2021 Sarah was awarded an Arts SA Fellowship to create dance for virtual reality experiences. In 2022, Sarah received a PhD from Deakin University/ Coventry University researching embodied participation in immersive digital environments. Sarah was an intern at the research centre for interactive and virtual environments (IVE) at UniSA and has presented at Siggraph, Technart and the 7th MoCo Conference. Sarah is currently an adjunct research fellow at UniSA Creative/ IVE.

• Liam Somerville AKA CAPITAL WASTE

  marine_digital_conservation_SA_2023.exe

  marine_digital_conservation_SA_2023.exe, looks toward the inevitable digital future where we may live on a lifeless, artificial planet with only poor digital representations of the extinct species we have destroyed. Wouldn't it be so much better if we preserved the real thing instead?

  All over the world climate change caused by human hands under western capitalism has already made an enormous impact on the extinction of biodiversity of flora and fauna. If we continue on this path, which we show no meaningful signs of slowing down, soon there will be nothing left other than us humans and the livestock we like to consume. Millions of years of evolution annihilated for the sake of short-term corporate profits.

  As a society we have chosen not to stop our unsustainable consumption practices but to instead poorly digitise these living natural beauties before they are lost forever. Some chilling examples include the last remains of the extinct thylacine - 80 seconds of black and white film footage and a handful of pelts. Or the island digitisation project of Tuvalu, a Pacific Nation which will soon be underwater due to rising sea levels who are creating a virtual replica in a desperate effort to preserve their cultural heritage.

  Liam Somerville is a video artist and cinematographer living and working on unceded Kaurna Country in South Australia. After completing a Bachelor of Digital Media Arts from University of South Australia in 2010 Liam went on to form CAPITAL WASTE PICTURES where he has created and collaborated on music videos, video installations, feature films, documentaries, television commercials, VR games, dome projections and live visual experiences. Their digital works often circulate around inputting the beautiful imperfections of the human experience into the digital space to create cyborg interactions through the use of interactive sensors and motion capture. This can be witnessed in ESCHATECH VR, a post-human VR experience created in Unreal Engine with the assistance of Flinders University's 2021 Assemblage Artist in Residence Program. Other residencies such as with Cinematic Experiments with Margie Medlin at The Mill, Adelaide (2021) and Morphos Digital Dome Artist in Residence (2016) with Denver Arts +Tech Advancement in Denver, CO have all been beneficial for his continual visual exploration of the moving digital image.

  As a cinematographer Liam has credits including feature music doco The Angels: Kickin’ Down the Door (2022) directed by Madeline Parry which opened the 2022 Adelaide Film Festival, Video Nasty: The Making of Ribspreader (2020) directed by Matthew Bate and Liam Somerville and Yer Old Faither (2020) directed by Heather Croall.

• Inneke Taal

  A series of self-credits (as object; as site; as drama)

  I am considering the cross-over of theatricality behind the gallery (white-cube) and the theatre (black-box) as corresponding spaces at The Mill. Each are make-shift spaces that house processes of rehearsal, editing, experimentation, and production.

  I am moved by the invitation embedded in rehearsal processes. Impulse, improvisation, and the slow reflexive consideration of the space to be dressed for performance or exhibition as what activates a site and makes it responsive. The plurality of these bodily-spatial dialogue holds a state of becoming that I find precious, a series of vital passing moments that gather over time to form a multi-faceted whole.

  I also wish to interrogate the inextricable act of self-crediting that goes into making and viewing art.

  Through multiple modes of deconstruction, the collapsed rolling credits and truss as figures in space; the projection of the infinite gallery architecture reflecting itself and those who pass through in delay; and the illumination of an empty blacked-out performance space, I seek to promote the embodiment of these processes with the act of anticipation and viewing.

  The before the event.

  Inneke Taal’s sculptural practice utilises multi-media installation and performative practices as a way of considering subtle embodied experiences and spatial relationships. Taal has a particular interest in reflecting the making and receiving of artwork as a subject in her work, as well as producing site-responsive works. With a focus on process-based modes of production, Taal seeks to interrupt common modes of presentation, and interrogate linear narrative and logic, using a range of media including found objects, paper, moving image, text, and sound. The role of video and projection have become central mediums in her practice to explore the agency of the body, the lens, and site. Inneke completed a Bachelor of Visual Art Honours in 2019 following a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2018, at Adelaide Central School of Art. She has a background working for performing arts organisations after completing a Bachelor of Arts Double Major in Linguistics and Drama in 2006 at Deakin University, Melbourne. Inneke received an Adelaide Fringe Festival Weekly Award for Art & Design in 2022 for her solo show ‘Site Interrupted’ at Sauerbier House and is a recipient of The Anne and Gordon SAMSTAG International Visual Arts Scholarship 2023 - 2024.

• Tanya Voges

  With/In

  With/In illustrates the relationship of the body to space, between the bodies of performer and witness and to itself as a kinaesthetic exploration. The interplay of the projected figure within the installation and architecture invites the viewer to consider their own sense of physicality as they are moved with and in the space. The experimental projection techniques show a study of the dance artist’s process informed by movement scores demonstrating elements of contemporary dance linage. Unlike viewing an ephemeral performance With/In offers an interactive glimpse into the ever-evolving practice of the artist’s signature choreographic process and only exists with the presence of the audiences’ movements.

  Interdisciplinary artist Tanya Voges brings her experience in dance, drawing, community engagement and dance film making to make multimedia performance works, live dance pieces and dance for screen. A 2004 graduate of Victorian College of the Arts, Tanya is currently back at the University of Melbourne undertaking a Master’s in Dance Movement Therapy. The cross over between arts and health has been a common theme in the community engagement works Tanya has created in recent years especially as Artist in Residence at Flinders Medical Centre Arts-in-Health (2020 & 2021) where she developed Drawn to Movement and Dance for Tender Times particularly with the patient experience in mind. Other residencies have been through Australian Dance Theatre (2021), The Mill (2020) and Guildhouse/SA Museum Tracing the Anthropocene (2020), Critical Path (2014), BigCI(2014) and Bundanon (2011 & 2013). Recent collaborations with Artist Louise Flaherty and Musician Belinda Gehlert have led to participatory performances in the Parklands (2020), Adelaide Botanic Gardens (2021 Nature Fest), Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens (2022 Fringe) and a new work for Lobethal Bushland Park (April 2023 Fabrik). As an advocate for dance for all ages Tanya facilitates choreography, contemporary dance and improvisation for Adelaide Festival Centre, Tafe SA, Restless Dance Theatre, Flinders Medical Centre and Carclew.

• About the Creative Team

  James Alberts, aka Jimblah, is a Larrakia Brother who specialises in activating community & using the power of creative space to bring about healing, joy, and play where Community and Country are concerned. James is a music producer, vocalist, photographer & cinematographer, and utilises Song & Story to help uplift and transform Community for the better, and has close to 20 years of experience working within the First Nations sector, in particular youth spaces, all across the Country.

  Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator:

  Margie Medlin’s practice tracks in a linage of expanded cinema, her interdisciplinary projects explore interrelationships between movement, devised spaces, and media technologies. Throughout her practice, she has continued to experiment and forge new ground aesthetically, collaboratively, and technically. Her media artwork has been exhibited extensively including in India, the USA, Cuba, Australia, Germany, the UK, Japan, and Finland. As an educator, Margie was the director of Critical Path, centre for choreographic research in Sydney from 2007-2015.

  Artistic Mentorship and Professional Development:

  Tim Gruchy’s extensive career spans the exploration and composition of immersive and interactive multimedia through installation, music and performance, whilst redefining its role and challenging the delineations between cultural sectors. He has exhibited multimedia works, photography, video, music and performance since the early 1980s on 5 continents as well as his larger expressions in the public art arenas. His installations and performances feature in many international and Australasian institutions, festivals and public spaces including IlluminateADL 2021, Future Intelligence Shanghai 2019, WOMAD (2018/7), Wenzhou Bienalle (2016), Dak’ Art Dakar (2016), Auckland Arts Festival (2015 & 2009), New Zealand Arts Festival (2014), SCOUT Auckland (2012), Biennale of Sydney (2012) (collaboration), Beijing 798 (2011), Shanghai Expo (2010), 2nd Asian Art BIennial Taiwan (2009), Melbourne International Arts Festival (2009), Adelaide Festival (1986-2008), and Sydney Festival (2004). Theatre and opera credits include ‘AIDA’; Sydney Opera House and touring Australia (2009-2013), ‘Ainadamar’, Adelaide Festival (2008);The Leningrad Symphony (2006). His visual designs have featured in works by Opera Australia, OzOpera, Sydney Theatre Company, Australian Dance Theatre, Auckland Philamonia Orchestra and Mau. He is an Adjunct Research Professor at the University of South Australia, and was Art Director and Distinguished Professor of the Digital Art Department, Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts from 2018 – 2021. His research has extended into areas of interactivity, the human computer interface, performative interactives, having established dedicated labs at QUT in Brisbane and SAFA in Shanghai. He is represented by Kronenberg Mais Wright Gallery in Sydney. He has lectured and facilitated workshops in video art and interactive digital design at creative institutions around the world including Shanghai; Future University of Hakodate (Japan); National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney); University of Technology Sydney; Te Papa (New Zealand) and Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane). He has also been extensively involved in museum design and various projects at the intersection of architecture and multimedia. www.grup.tv

  Cindi Drennan/Illuminart is an Australian multimedia artist and artistic director, specialising in projection art, with a passion for community building at the heart of her practice. Cindi is the founder and director of illuminart, bringing a wealth of experience and passion for the artform, and leadership to the projects. Architectural Projection and Projection arts projects directed by Cindi include Luminous Hall for UWA 2013; award winning No Boundaries Project in 2012; award winning Port Inhabited for Port Festival 2011; RED on Sydney Opera House for World Aids Day 2011; Fractured Heart for ARIAS and VIVID 2011-2012; The Ribbon for the Regional Centre of Culture program in Murray Bridge SA 2010, and Landed for the National Regional Arts Conference in Launceston, 2010, and Harts Mill Inhabited and Promise in 2009. Cindi’s multi-disciplinary background encompasses over 25 years experience in filmmaking, illustration, animation, community arts & interactive media. Cindi founded Illuminart in 2007, a South Australian arts company that integrates community consultation and engagement within high quality projection arts, architectural projection and audiovisual storytelling. Prior to this Cindi’s creative leadership roles included Tesseract Research Laboratories 1997-2004, The Electric Canvas 2004-2006, and also team leadership roles at the Institute for Interactive Multimedia (UTS) and Unlimited Energee 1993-1997. Cindi’s accomplishments include contributing projection art for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, DOHA opening ceremony and Singapore National Day; directing several short films and television commercials; directing two experimental AV theatre projects (Alpha Release at p-space, and Sprocket at The Studio Sydney Opera House); pioneering VJing and projection mapping in Australia.

• About the program

  Make|Shift is part of The Mill’s Expand program, a responsive process and development program, with interest in challenging artists to explore interdisciplinary, site-specific and audience-focused new work.

  Expand supports artists to explore different modes of collaborating and encourages peer-learning. It enables risk taking, experimentation and freedom of expression in the creation and realisation of new works. Expand invites audiences to not only appreciate, but actively participate in the practice of art-making through artists talks, Q&A’s and public workshops.

  The exhibition has been developed through Expand’s Cinematic Experiments: Projection Techniques and Technologies program.

• Accessibility

  The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.

  Unfortunately, the main entrance is not accessible, as it has a small step from the pavement.

  Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team you would like to come into the building.

  A member of The Mill team sit in the foyer Monday to Friday and can assist you with access to our wheelchair accessible entrance.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

  If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact us via email

This project has support from

Artist Talk: Tikari Rigney and the Solidarity Collective

Artwork: Tikari Rigney. Photo carousel: Daniel Marks.

Artist Talk

When: February 21, 5:30-6:30pm

Where: The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

• Accessibility

  The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.

  Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

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Join artist Tikari Rigney and members of the Solidarity Collective for an informal artist talk, chatting about themes in their collaborative work as part of Tikari’s exhibition Snug Diaries. The collective have contributed an installation of objects, performance and poetry. The emphasis on peer learning and multidisciplinary collaboration within this project create a profound sense of community and care.

The Mill’s Solidarity Collective (working title) is a new project initiated and facilitated by Kaurna, Narrungga and Ngarrindjeri artist, and 2022 Sponsored Studio recipient Tikari Rigney. The Solidarity Collective is made up of South Australian based artists who identify as First Nations, and/or People of Colour. The collective has held regular meetings in late 2022, creating a community of multi-disciplinary artists who share, create and work collaboratively. Ultimately providing a platform for artists to express themselves and share stories within a safe space, while also making friends and sharing.

• About the artist

  Tikari Rigney is a non-binary (they/them) Kaurna, Narrungga and Ngarrindjeri visual artist and poet living and working on Kaurna land. Their process is centred around their language, identity specifically their family’s First Nations history and informed by personal challenges and experiences. Their interests are in community connection, solidarity and learning. These are explored through a range of mediums however, their practice currently is focused on textiles and fleshy anthropomorphic sculptures. 

  Tikari has been involved with several group shows and will be exhibiting their first solo exhibition at the completion of their residency at The Mill in February 2023. Their next residency is at Nexus towards the end of 2023.

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This project has support from

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

Solidarity Collective

Artwork: Tikari Rigney

Exhibition opening: February 10, 6-9pm

Collective meet-ups:

Thursday, November 3, 5:30-8:30pm

Wednesday, November 16, 5.30-8pm
(Drop in Care Space, 143 Sturt St, Tarndanya, Adelaide, entrance via driveway on Hamley Street)

Wednesday, December 7, 5:30-8:30pm

Wednesday, January 11, 2023 5:30-8:30pm

Saturday, January 28, 2023 10am-4pm Workshop

Tuesday February 21, 2023 5:30-6:30 Artist talk

Where: The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

• Accessbility

  The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.

  Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

The Mill’s Solidarity Collective (working title) is a new project initiated and facilitated by Kaurna, Narrunga and Ngarrindjeri artist, and 2022-23 Sponsored Studio recipient Tikari Rigney.

The Collective will be made up of South Australian based artists who identify as First Nations, and/or People of Colour. This Collective will create a community setting for multi-disciplinary artists to share, create and work collaboratively. Ultimately providing a platform for artists to express themselves and share stories within a safe space, while also making friends and sharing.

The Solidarity Collective have also contributed to Tikari’s solo exhibition Snug Diaries, with an installation of objects, performance and poetry. The emphasis on peer learning and multidisciplinary collaboration within this project create a profound sense of community and care.

What to expect at Collective meet ups:

Facilitated by Tikari, The Mill will host five meet-ups throughout late 2022 and early 2023. While we encourage you to attend in-person, there is flexibility for you to attend via Zoom and when your schedule allows. The meet-ups will include snacks and if you have any access needs to make your time at The Mill more comfortable, please email our team.

Once the five meet-ups have concluded, members of the Solidarity Collective will co-present an artists talk with Tikari, as an extension of their exhibition.

• About the facilitator

  Tikari Rigney is a non-binary Kaurna, Narrunga and Ngarrindjeri visual artist and poet. Working in a range of mediums from performance, illustration sculpture to writing. Their practice references their queer bodily experience, Aboriginality and the complexities of human connection. Exploring themes of humor, rebirth and emotional vulnerability. Tikari is a recipient of The Mill’s BIPOC Sponsored Studio 2022. Rigney participated in the inaugural Zine and Held fair for disabled and people of colour artists at POP gallery. They have exhibited in over five group exhibitions in South Australia. They curated the largest student exhibition at Adelaide Central School of Art during their studies, with over 22 artists and is completing a Bachelor in Visual Arts. Rigney has connections to Carclew through their Creative Consultant program and has completed a culturally diverse illustration commission for Shine SA.

Photo: Johnny von Einem

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This project has support from

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

Expand: Projection Techniques and Technologies facilitated by Margie Medlin

In 2023, six artists (visual artists, performers, dancers film and media artists) will participate in a collaborative intensive facilitated by Margie Medlin with support from award-winning creative producers and multimedia specialists Illuminart.

PTT combines rapid skills development in emerging technologies in art and exhibition outcomes to support the exploration of interdisciplinary, site-specific and audience-focused new work.

This program follows Expand’s 2021 program Cinematic Experiments, a 10-day laboratory facilitated by Medlin, The Mill and Mercury CX, in response to creatives pushing further into exploring hybrid / digital platforms. The six artists for PTT will be selected from those who attended Cinematic Experiments, to continue this learning.

PTT participants will experience four, high-level professional development masterclasses in The Breakout at The Mill, and dedicate time to experimenting with projection technologies within their practice. The work created will culminate in Make|Shift, a 6 week immersive group exhibition in The Mill’s Exhibition Space, including an artist forum and access tours to engage audiences in the process of creation.

Expand 2021: Announcing the Cinematic Experiments participants

The Mill presents a much anticipated 10-day professional development project, Cinematic Experiments, in partnership with artist Margie Medlin and Mercury CX, funded by Arts SA.

In response to creatives pushing further into exploring digital spaces, this intensive workshop challenges a mixed cohort of dance, performance, film and design artists to explore the development of interdisciplinary, hybrid and digital platforms. The stimulating, experiment-based structure builds digital technologies skills for participating artists and ignites new ways of thinking and practicing. 

The partnership between The Mill and Mercury CX reflects the labs interdisciplinary aspirations.

About the artists:

• Stephanie Daughtry

  Concerned with built and natural spaces my practice considers human impact on our environment and vice versa.

  I create immersive multi-disciplinary experiences which guide audiences through imaginary worlds.

  Originally trained in the performing arts I have built a repertoire that encompasses installation, film, sound and participatory elements to strengthen the scope for innovative audience engagement. Inspired by experimental performance art practices that came to prominence in the 1960s, more recently I have been influenced by the immersive performances of companies such as Punchdrunk and Marshmallow Laser Feast. Similarly I am motivated by artists such as Olafur Eliasson who constructs built environments that cross over between performance and the visual arts through active audience participation. 

  stephdaughtry.com

• Sarah Neville

  Sarah Neville is an Australian choreographer who devises new media performance, instigates inter-disciplinary practices and invests in multi-platform processes and production outcomes.

  Sarah has created work for Adelaide Festival and Fringe, Ausdance Choreolab, Dance House, Australian Choreographic Centre, ADT’s Ignition season, Strut Dance, Link Dance Company (WAAPA). Sarah was a member of Australian/ Spanish physical theatre company Corazon De Vaca, founder of Heliograph Productions and Kite Dance Theatre and an Artistic Associate with Open Space. Sarah has a Masters in Dance from QUT and is currently a PhD Candidate, co-tutelle between Deakin University and Coventry University (UK), researching Dance Digitisation.

  In 2019 Sarah was an invited artist for a Public Art Commission at the European Centre of Culture’s exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Sarah is currently a recipient of Arts SA Fellowship, creating new work for Dance and Virtual Reality.

  sarahneville.com

• Catherine Fitzgerald

  A professional director with significant experience creating high quality and profitable main stage productions in South Australia. Catherine has earned critical acclaim by risk taking, innovating and creating unique and engaging theatrical performances, bringing executive experience in directing, producing, dramaturgy, playwriting, acting and teaching to the position.

  Catherine assesses and develops commissioned and non-commissioned scripts for the theatre. Committed to working with playwrights to develop new work, liaise with directors and actors in the development of that work and deliver professional workshops in performance, dramaturgy and playwriting. 

  She has worked successfully with many organisations and people from diverse backgrounds to deliver exciting meaningful events and projects, building inclusive and respectful relationships.

• Ray Harris

  Ray Harris is not a middle-aged man but an emerging Adelaide artist. Her work focuses on the psychological struggles and complexities of self-concept, focussing on prevailing everyday fantasies, created to cope with the complexities of repressed desires, feelings, anxieties and psychological pain accompanied by the facilitation of unawareness. Fascinated by mental spaces, she explores these issues through subjective interpretations of universal conditions in the dual creation of sculptural spaces and perfomative video embodying inner and outer experience.

  Ray has exhibited at the AEAF, SASA Gallery; CACSA and Hugo Michell Gallery. As well as Sawtooth (Launceston), Boxcopy (Brisbane), InFlight (Hobart) Next Wave (Melbourne) Supermarket Art Fair (Sweden) and Gil and Moti Homegallery, (Netherlands) Pirimid Sanat (Turkey). Her work is held in The Borusan Collection and Project 4L- Elgiz Museum Collection, Turkey and private collections in Australia.

  rayharrisartist.com/index

• Liam Somerville

  Liam Somerville is a Cinematographer and Video Artist living and working on Kaurna Land in South Australia.

  Liam founded Capital Waste Pictures in early 2012 after graduating from a UniSA Bachelor of Digital Media (Film & TV & 3D Animation) that same year. In the camera department Liam is confident behind a camera with over 10 years industry/freelance experience from DOP, camera operator, camera assist and lighting department.

  As a Video Artist Liam experiments using a wide range of tools from 3D software, game engines, generative coding, projection mapping, LED walls and analog video gear to create immersive visual experiences for web, installations and live performance.

  capitalwastepictures.com

• Dianne Reid

  Dianne Reid is a performer, choreographer, camera operator, video editor, writer and educator. She has created dance for a range of live and screen contexts. Hipsync is her dance video production company established in 2002. Dianne has created some 50 screendance works, many of which have screened internationally.

  Dianne trained in Adelaide in Communication Studies (Drama), then a BA Dance under David and Simi Roche (South Australian College of Advanced Education). In 2001 she completed a Master of Arts in Screendance at Deakin University. She was a founding member of Outlet Dance in Adelaide (1987–89) and a member of Danceworks from 1990–95 under the direction of Helen Herbertson and Beth Shelton. Between 1996-2004 Dianne was Associate Lecturer in contemporary dance, physical theatre and dance video at Deakin University (aka Rusden). In addition, she has been a guest teacher and/or choreographer for VCA, WAAPA, Chunky Move, Dancehouse and Australian Dance Theatre.

  hipsync.com.au

• Danielle Reynolds

  Danielle Reynolds is a multi-disciplinary artist who creates works that comprise interchangeable components of: large-scale painting, sculpture, moving image, sound and performance. Reynolds work is generated from a studio practice that engages with notions of ‘not knowing’ and failure as desirable states to work from and with. The resulting work commonly employs recurrent themes of humour, gesture, popular culture and futility.

  Reynolds completed Honours at Victoria College of Arts (First Class Honours) in 2016 following the completion of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT University in 2015 and Chelsea College of Arts: The University of Arts London. Reynolds was selected for the 2017 Next Wave Kickstart program with Canine Choreography a work that was later included in 2018 Next Wave Festival.

  Reynolds has exhibited nationally and internationally in a number of group shows and worked as a guest artist for: Field Theory’s ICON at Federation Square (2018), Emile Zile and No Clients Fair exchange for National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Art Book Fair (2019) and  Madison Bycroft's Antihero (live performance component) as part of Feedback Loops at ACCA (2019). 

• Inneke Taal

  Inneke Taal is an artist currently based in Adelaide, Australia and has also lived in Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore. Their practice is situated in the field of multi-media sculpture, looking at video, sound, installation and performative practices as a way of considering subtle embodied experiences and spatial relationships through movement.

  Inneke has a First Class Honours degree from Adelaide Central School of Art (ACSA), a Bachelor in Visual Art, ACSA, and a Bachelor in Linguistics and Drama, Deakin University. Inneke has a background working for performing arts organisations and remains interested in the performativity of site in her visual arts practice.

  inneketaal.com

• Tanya Voges

  Multidisciplinary Artist Tanya Voges creates choreography for theatre and gallery spaces which invite audiences to engage, participate, feel immersed and explore trace. Tanya works and resides on the unceded lands of the Peramangk peoples of the Adelaide Hills.

  She is part of the Artist Residence in Motherhood and has created an alternative mothers' group MAMAA- Mother Artists Making Art, Australia which has both an online community and studio sharing in Adelaide. Engaging with collaborators of various disciplines Tanya brings her experience in dance, drawing, community engagement and dance film making to make multimedia performance works, live dance pieces and dance for screen.

  tanya.voges.net

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About the film staff:

• Paul Gallasch

  A new voice in the Australian film landscape, Paul Gallasch is a filmmaker whose work has become known for its raw honesty, dark humour and emotional intimacy. He is a member of the Australian Directors Guild, Australian Screen Editors and a winner of the prestigious Australian Documentary Prize from the Sydney Film Festival (Killing Anna).

  In 2018 he finished his first feature film, the experimental documentary Love in the Time of Antidepressants, supported by Screen Australia and the South Australian Film Corporation, which premiered to sold out screenings at the Adelaide Film Festival.

  He is currently producing and editing the verité documentary The Ark, directed by Madeline Gordon. Paul is a previous recipient of the SA Writers Development Grant and the Points North Institute Fellowship. 

  paulgallasch.com

• Rebecca Duncker

  After receiving a first class honours from Adelaide University in Environmental Biology, Rebecca decided she was more at home dabbling in science fiction rather than science.

  
  In 2017 Rebecca received the Cliff Ellis Emerging Cinematographer award at the South Australian ACS awards and has been working in the camera department across a wide range of projects spanning from short films and music videos to television and film.

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Expand 2021: Cinematic Experiments

The Mill presents a much anticipated 10-day professional development project, Cinematic Experiments, in partnership with artist Margie Medlin and Mercury CX, funded by Arts SA.

In response to creatives pushing further into exploring digital spaces, this intensive workshop challenges a mixed cohort of dance, performance, film and design artists to explore the development of interdisciplinary, hybrid and digital platforms. The stimulating, experiment-based structure builds digital technologies skills for participating artists and ignites new ways of thinking and practicing. 

The partnership between The Mill and Mercury CX reflects the labs interdisciplinary aspirations.

Images: Margie Medlin, dancer Vicki Van Hout, Cinematic Experiments 2019

Participants can expect:

The project, spans two weeks working with Margie Medlin as lead artist, a film/camera production person and editing teacher/facilitator. The process will combine; 

Introduction to avant-garde cinema practices:

• Exploring aesthetics of the cinematic frame e.g. on-screen and off screen, depth of field, focus

• Practical sessions such as: working with the video camera (video or DSLR camera), light for the camera - practical lighting movement in the void (black box studio, cameras, tripods, lights, sound), video editing (introduction of premiere pro-editing software), layering testing ideas and exploring the potential of projection

Participants will work in small groups to create, share, and discuss cinematic experiments at The Mill’s studios and Mercury CX editing suites.

When: May 10 - May 21, 2021, 9.30am - 5.30pm (Monday to Friday)
Artist Fee: $2000 + $200 super contribution (artists paid for this workshop)

Applications open: February 24
Applications close: March 18, 12am midnight
Applicants notified: March 31

The Move 2021

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Photographer: Alexander Waite Mitchell

Performance

When: Thursday April 22 to Saturday 24, 7:00pm
Where: Space Theatre at Adelaide Festival Centre, King William St, Kaurna Yerta
Duration: 1 hour

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We're absolutely thrilled to announce tickets are on sale for The Move, a curated initiative of Dance Hub SA, The Mill and Ausdance SA, presented by Adelaide Festival Centre.

In April 2021, commissioned choreographers Gabrielle Nankivell and Lewis Major will unveil their world premiere works in an enthralling dance double bill, ranging from the innovative wit of Nankivell's Wonder Grit through to the visceral intensity of Major's Satori.

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This program has support from

Expand: Holly Childs and Angela Goh, 'CLIFFHANGER'

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Photo: Supplied by artists

Showing

When: Friday, November 13, 2020, 6 - 7pm
Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Adelaide (enter via Gunson St)
Cost: Free

Workshop

When: Friday, November 13, 2pm to 4:30pm
Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Adelaide (enter via Gunson St)
Cost: $25

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Holly Childs and Angela Goh will be in residence at The Breakout at The Mill during November, as part of Expand in 2020.

Angela Goh is a Sydney-based choreographer and dancer, and the winner of the 2020 Keir Choreographic award, and Holly Childs resides in Adelaide, working as a writer. Together, they will be developing CLIFFHANGER, a new, multi-art-form work bringing together dance, performance, text and installation. Read more about Angela and Holly’s journey via a blog post, here

The residency will culminate in a public showing of the work-in-development and a workshop, which will offer insight into the CLIFFHANGER project.

What participants can expect:

The workshop will explore the initial research strategies and materials of CLIFFHANGER, working with the “cliffhanger” which is both a narrative device to keep audience attention suspended, and a physical state of literal suspension. Holly and Angela will lead participants through various modes including discussion, movement practices and writing tasks. As this is a multidisciplinary focused workshop, diverse skills and experience are welcome and will be considered in the tasks and processes explored.

What to bring:

Please wear comfortable clothing/shoes and bring a notepad, pen and water.

About the artists:

• Angela Goh

  Angela Goh is a Sydney based dancer and choreographer working with dance in theatres, galleries, and telepathic spaces. Her work considers the body in relationship to commodity, materiality, technology, and feeling. Her works have been presented widely in Australia and internationally, including SPRING Festival (NL), Baltic Circle Festival (FIN), PS122/Performance Space New York (USA), Auto Italia South East (UK), Liveworks Festival (AUS), Artspace Sydney (AUS), Arnolfini (UK), Fusebox Festival (USA), Festival of Live Art (AUS), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (AUS), Campbelltown Arts Centre (AUS), the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Art (AUS), the Judson Church (USA), My Wild Flag (SWE), among others, and presented by Galerie (int) at La Biennale de la Danse (FR); Jan Mot Gallery (BE); Dansehallerne (DK); Menagerie de Verre (FR); Saal Biennial (EST) and Oslo Internasjonale Teater Festival (NO).

  Angela has been artist in residence at Tanzhaus Zurich (CH), Cite Internationale des Arts (FR), Critical Path (AUS), Arts House Melbourne (AUS), ADAM/The Kitchen (TWN). She received the danceWEB Europe Scholarship, the Create NSW Emerging Fellowship 2019/20 and the inaugural Create NSW and Sydney Dance Company fellowship 2020/21. She has won awards including Best Artist in the 2017 FBi Sydney Music Arts and Culture awards and the Keir Choreographic Award 2020.

  Find more details about Angela here

• Holly Childs

  Holly Childs is a multimedia artist and writer. Her research involves filtering stories of computation through frames of ecology, earth, memory, poetry, and light. She is the author of two books: No Limit (Hologram) and Danklands (Arcadia Missa), and is currently writing her third book, What Causes Flowers Not to Bloom? a collection of fiction, poems, and essays to be published by Subtext, Berlin, in 2021. She holds a Masters of Art and Design from Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, and has been a postgraduate researcher in The New Normal programme at Strelka Institute, Moscow.

  Her most recent work is Hydrangea, a sequential spatial sound work for greenhouses, made in collaboration with J. G. Biberkopf, performed in botanic gardens in Melbourne (Liquid Architecture) and Amsterdam, NL (Botanische Tuin Zuidas), at festivals in Sydney (Soft Centre) and Olomouc, CZ, and at Vilnius Composers House, LT. Other recent work writing a poem for Angela Goh’s Uncanny Valley Girl, that performs alongside Angela, coded with support from cyberfeminist artist and programmer Linda Dement to subtly change each time Uncanny Valley Girl is performed.

  Her works have been exhibited at Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne), Firstdraft, (Sydney), Blue Oyster (Dunedin), Display (Prague). She has created performances for Arcadia Missa (London), PAF (Olomouc), Metro Arts (Brisbane), Firstdraft (Sydney), Minerva (Sydney), Casula Powerhouse (Sydney), Rile (Brussels), Trust (Berlin), Fuzzy Vibes (Auckland), and Liquid Architecture (Melbourne). She has lectured/spoken at Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), LunchBytes @ ICA (London), National Young Writers Festival (Newcastle), ACMI X/Experimenta (Melbourne), Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne), Emerging Writers Festival (Melbourne), Digital Writers Festival (online), Moscow Urban Forum (Moscow), Elam School of Art (Auckland), RMIT, VCA and Monash (Melbourne), and Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne), and alongside Amelia Groom, she led Watermarks a research course for the Graphic Design department at Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.

  Find out more about Holly here

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Thank you to ACE Open for supporting NSW artist Angela Goh with accommodation for this residency.

Gaga/people Movement Classes: 12 Weeks in Adelaide 2019/20

Photographer: Ascaf

Classes

When: October - 17, 24, 31, 6-7pm, November - 7, 14, 21, 28, 6-7pm, December - 5, 12, 19 (at The Mill), 6-7pm, January - 2 (at The Mill) 6-7pm

Where: Adelaide College of The Arts, Level 3 Rehearsal Studio, 39 Light Square, Adelaide

Cost: $20

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About the classes:

Gaga/people Classes are open to people ages 16+, regardless of their background in dance or movement. No previous dance experience is needed!

Gaga is the movement research developed by Ohad Naharin (ISRAEL) over many years, parallel to his work as a choreographer and the artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company.  

Gaga/people classes last for one hour and are taught by dancers who have worked closely with Ohad Naharin.

What to expect:

Gaga/people classes offer a creative framework for participants to connect to their bodies and imaginations, increase their physical awareness, improve their flexibility and stamina, and experience the pleasure of movement in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere.

Teachers guide the participants using a series of evocative instructions that build one on top of the other. Rather than copying a particular movement, each participant in the class actively explores these instructions, discovering how he or she can interpret the information and perform the task at hand.

What to wear:

Participants should wear comfortable clothes and be prepared to dance barefoot or in socks. 

About the teacher:

• About the teacher

  Lee Brummer is an independent choreographer, international guest teacher and educator based in Sweden. She studied at the Jerusalem Academy for music and dance in Israel where she also completed her BA and teaching degree in 2007. Lee has studied psychology, theatre and pilates alongside her career as a dancer and choreographer. Lee is a certified Gaga teacher.

  Lee is the Associate Director and Co Founder of ilDance, an independent and international contemporary dance company and organisation based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Since 2016 Lee also manages GAGA SWEDEN under the umbrella of ilDance.

  Lee danced with the Bat Dor Dance Company (Israel), The Emanuel Gat Dance Company (Israel) and with various independent choreographers across Europe. She has worked as choreographer's assistant in a variety of dance productions and musicals in Sweden and abroad.

  Over the years Brummer has been teaching and working with companies such as: DV8, Australian Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company, National Dance Company Wales and Norrdans to name a few. She has been guest teaching at open professional classes, schools and universities worldwide and has been choreographing her own work within different international structures since 2010.

• About the company

  Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility, and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and imagination.  The classes offer a workout that investigates form, speed, and effort while traversing additional spectrums such as those between soft and thick textures, delicacy and explosive power, and understatement and exaggeration.  Participants awaken numb areas, increase their awareness of habits, and improve their efficiency of movement inside multilayered tasks, and they are encouraged to connect to pleasure inside moments of effort.  The research of Gaga is in a continual process of evolution, and the classes vary and develop accordingly. 

  “We are aware of the connection between effort and pleasure,  we are aware of the distance between our body parts, we are aware of the friction between flesh and bones, we sense the weight of our body parts, yet, our form is not shaped by gravity . . . We are aware of where we hold unnecessary tension, we let go only to bring life and efficient movement to where we let go . . . We are turning on the volume of  listening to our body, we appreciate small gestures, we are measuring and playing with the texture of our flesh and skin, we might be silly, we can laugh at ourselves.  We connect to the sense of “plenty of time,” especially when we move fast, we learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal we are and the power of our imagination.  We are “body builders with a soft spine.”

  We learn to appreciate understatement and exaggeration, we become more delicate and we recognize the importance of the flow of energy and information through our body in all directions.  We learn to apply our force in an efficient way and we learn to use “other” forces.

  We discover the advantage of soft flesh and sensitive hands,  we learn to connect to groove even when there is no music.

  We are aware of people in the room and we realize that we are not in the center of it all. We become more aware of our form since we never look at ourselves in a mirror; there are no mirrors.  We connect to the sense of the endlessness of possibilities.  Yielding is constant while we are ready to snap . . .

  We explore multi-dimensional movement, we enjoy the burning sensation in our muscles,  we are aware of our explosive power and sometimes we use it.  We change our movement habits by finding new ones, we can be calm and alert at once.

  We become available . . .”
  Ohad Naharin

Lee Brummer Gaga/people teacher, Adelaide.

Expand: Motus Collective, Artist in Residence

Supported by The Mill, Motus Collective are in residence in The Mill Breakout in 2019 as part of The Mill’s EXPAND Program.

This program is designed to create a space for artists to expand their own individual practice whilst being inspired and supported by other interdisciplinary artists. This ongoing workshop series will facilitate new explorations and connections between artists of diverse disciplines.

The aim of this program is to;

• To bring the Adelaide arts community together.

• To provide networking opportunities for artists of diverse disciplines.

• To provide a creative space free from the pressure to perform, or to provide an

• To enable a safe space for creative practice, in which all participants are equal.

• To allow artists a place to develop their own individual practice with the support of fellow

  local artists, to be inspired by others and excel at their own unique style.

• To give artists a place to experiment and step outside of their comfort zones.

• To enliven contemporary dance practice in South Australia.

About the artists and residency:

Felicity Boyd and Zoe Gay

Motus Collective are Felicity Boyd and Zoe Gay, based in Adelaide facilitating connections between artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines in a shared rigorous contemporary movement-based practice. Motus Collective are creating new work in The Breakout space in 2019 and running public Jam Sessions;

Interdisciplinary Jam Sessions

Tuesday nights, The Mill Breakout Space, 7-9pm

Felicity Boyd: felicityb91@hotmail.com

Zoe Gay: zjwgay@gmail.com

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