NARRANDERA
The Cad Factory Rural Residency Program announces Residency # 2 in the 2011 program.
Victoria Hunt is a founding member of the Bodyweather ensemble The Dequincey Co with whom she has created over 20 productions and residencies nationally and internationally.
She has worked with New Zealand based group MAU Dance Company and has performed all over the world including a three month intensive research with Min Tanaka in Japan exploring the connections between the body and environment.
The Cad Factory Regional Residency program invites 3 national and one International artist per year to work at the Old Birrego School, a remote, disused, one room school built in 1886.
The project aims to increase opportunities for exposure to high quality artistic programming in regional Australia and allow communities to engage with artistic process during the creation of major site specific artwork(s).
This program affords artists the opportunity to consider their practice within the remote horizons of Australian landscape and its immense panorama of time and space.
Each artist will maintain a blog during their residency, viewable at www.cadresidency.wordpress.com
The first Cad Factory residency has just been completed by Mayu Kanamori. To share in Mayus experience click here
The Cad Factory Regional Residency program invites 3 national and one International artist per year to work at the Old Birrego School, a remote, disused, one room school built in 1886.
The project aims to increase opportunities for exposure to high quality artistic programming in regional Australia and allow communities to engage with artistic process during the creation of major site specific artwork(s).
This program affords artists the opportunity to consider their practice within the remote horizons of Australian landscape and its immense panorama of time and space.
The first residency starts soon, stay tuned as each artist will maintain a blog during their residency.
To download press release about the first years four artists Click Here
The four artists selected for the first year program include :
Bruce Odland is a New York based composer and sound artist who is known for his large scale, public space sound installations. Bruce has exhibited and performed all over the world from The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney to Berlin, Switzerland and America. BruceÕs most recent project is Co-Directing with Laurie Anderson a sound design Garden in Basel Switzerland.
Mayu Kanamori is a photo journalist, writer, performer and photo media artist based in Sydney. She has received a commendation for United Nations Media Peace Award, recipient of the Broome NAIDOC Non Indigenous Reconciliation Award, finalist for 2004 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, The Harries National Digital Awards, 2005 Olive Cotton National Photographic Portrait Awards, and 2005 Conrad Jupiter's National Art Prize.
Jason Wing is a young Aboriginal artist from the western Sydney suburb of Blacktown, which has a relatively high Aboriginal population. Wing's father is Chinese (Cantonese) and his mother is an Aboriginal woman from the Biripi people in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Sydney's College of Fine Arts in 1998, Wing has steadily emerged in the Sydney and national art scene as a versatile artist who explores issues of bi-cultural and Indigenous political identity, environmental awareness and spirituality with a street-wise flair (owing in part to his use of stencil printing) and strong commitment to community engagement.
Victoria Hunt is a founding member of the Bodyweather ensemble The Dequincey Co with whom she has created over 20 productions and residencies nationally and internationally. She has worked with New Zealand based group MAU Dance Company and has performed all over the world including a three month intensive research with Min Tanaka in Japan exploring the connections between the body and environment.
Since 2007 The Cad Factory has been repairing an old abandoned school house in a small town called Birrego, between Wagga Wagga and Narrandera in regional NSW. All that is left of Birrego is the school house which was built in 1886 for the children of surrounding farmers. It operated as a school until the 1960's.
The following photo is from the Narrandera Shire Library's photostream on Flickr.
Birrego School C1928
In Easter 2008 we conducted our first workshops in Narrandera. This involved members of Shopfront Theatre for Young People, and a 5 day development for their major production Lost Toy Stories.
FIlm clip made by Cad Factory band Grace Before Meals in Narrandera
.... More to come.
