Margie Medlin (AUS/ GB) has an illustrious biography in lighting design and experimental filmmaking and media artist. She has lit and designed new dance performances, produced film, video, new media art works, mentored and curated. Her work specialises relationship between dance and the moving image. Margie has collaborated with many choreographers and directors including Ros Warby, Sandra Parker, Rebecca Hilton, Lucy Guerin, Carol Brown, Russell Dumas, Russell Maliphant, John Jaspers, Ong Keng Sen, Hellen Sky, Vicki Van Hout and Gideon Obarzanek and mentored many young dance-makers in Australia and internationally.
As Director of Critical Path, Australia’s leading centre for choreographic research, Sydney, 2007 to 2015. Margie’s program was dedicated to instigation of innovative platforms for choreographers and interdisciplinary artists.
Margie Medlin (AUS/ GB) has an illustrious biography in lighting design and experimental filmmaking and media artist. She has lit and designed new dance performances, produced film, video, new media art works, mentored and curated. Her work specialises relationship between dance and the moving image. Margie has collaborated with many choreographers and directors including Ros Warby, Sandra Parker, Rebecca Hilton, Lucy Guerin, Carol Brown, Russell Dumas, Russell Maliphant, John Jaspers, Ong Keng Sen, Hellen Sky, Vicki Van Hout and Gideon Obarzanek and mentored many young dance-makers in Australia and internationally.
As Director of Critical Path, Australia’s leading centre for choreographic research, Sydney, 2007 to 2015. Margie’s program was dedicated to instigation of innovative platforms for choreographers and interdisciplinary artists.
Margie Medlin
Facilitator: The Space in the Middle
THE SPACE IN THE MIDDLE
This is a cross-disciplinary workshop for artists interested in developing/exploring their projects in relationship to movement, space, light and image.
Until a certain point, new work can potentially go in many different directions, then something changes what?
This lab explores “what if”. “what if” it is not what I thought it was……. What is it?
Is it for the stage? Is it for a gallery? Is it durational? Is it a film? Should it be site specific? Is it art? Who is it for?
The week is dedicated to being confident and enjoying the process of exploration, research and making new work and finding out what it is……
Each participant will have space and facilities to work individually on your own projects. You will be able to join lighting, projection design workshops or invite Margie to works with you on these aspects of your project.
Over the week we will look at each participants project proposal through a number of lens’s. We will share process. We will look at each other’s work and learn skills in critical feedback.
ARTISTS AND COLLABORATORS: Amelia McQueen (VIC) and Shoeb Ahmad (ACT), Janine Proost (VIC), Alex Boynes (ACT) and Laura Boynes (WA), Alison Plevey (ACT) and Olivia Fyfe (ACT).
PUBLICATION: Sydney Morning Herald by Lucy Nelson 2015
PUBLIC EVENT: Artist Talk with Margie Medlin
Alexander Boynes is a Canberra based artist, curator, and Program Manager at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. His primary training was as a silversmith, and his practice has evolved to include painting, photography, print media, light-based work, and video installation.
Janine explores the junctions between performance, movement research, ritual, spirituality, ecology and wellness and am inspired to share this with the world in infinite ways including dance performance.
Amelia worked with Tanz Atelier Wien (Vienna), Stalker Theatre Company and Strange Fruit. Under the direction of Tanja Liedtke she developed a role for the dance theatre production ‘Twelfth Floor’. Most recently her music and dance collaboration project ‘This Town Is Loud Now’ was supported by Arts House (Melbourne).
Laura is an independent artist working with dance and choreography in an expanded field. She is fascinated with the moving image and this is the fundamental reason that she performs, creates movement and makes film. The influence of form, structure and mark in contemporary painting, architecture and film emerge in her work, visual references guide her choreography from the moment of inception and these visual synchronicities are evident in the final work.
Alison is a dance and physical theatre artist, teacher and performance maker based in Canberra and Central Western NSW. She is Party Leader of newly formed Australian Dance Party. Inspired by Canberra's political culture, The Party communicates contemporary issues through the power and playfulness of the moving body.
Margie Medlin (AUS/ GB/DE) has a multi-faceted biography in scenography and expanded cinema. She has designed new dance performances, produced film, video, new media art works, mentored and curated. Her collaborations specialises relationship between dance and the moving image.