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Anna Furse

Anna Furse background includes a scholarship to the Royal Ballet School, study with Peter Brook’s CIRT and Grotowski’s Teatr Laboratorium and new dance/physical theatre in the UK and abroad.

An award-winning director/writer of over 50 international touring productions, her Artistic Directorships include Bloodgroup, Paines Plough and her current company Athletes of the Heart. Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, she directs the MA in Performance Making and curates the Performance Research Forum. She is a published writer, journalist, and frequent speaker at international conferences. Her published texts include Augustine (Big Hysteria) Harwood 1997 and Gorgeous, Theatre Centre Plays Vol 1 Aurora Metro 2003, currently in repertory at The New Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco. Her co-production Don Juan.Who? with Mladinsko Theatre, Ljubljana will tour in 2008.

With her bursary she will travel to India and Poland to research her next project Dust with Jola Cynkutis and Khalid Tyabji.

www.athletesoftheheart.org

Deej Fabyc

Australian/British artist Deej Fabyc is founding director of Elastic Residence. Her work has been shown Internationally both in museums and artist-run spaces for the past 15 years. Her body of work addresses the psychological dimensions of the personal and political experience of trauma.  A sense or ambivalence and ‘schlock horror’ permeates her work. Recent performances include Details at L’abracada Festival International d’Art Contemporani, Spain 2006; And She Watched at Trace Installaction Artspace, Cardiff and in Don't Call it Performance, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid and Centro Parraga, Murcia, Spain, 2003.

Her residency at Artsadmin will explore death and grieving within the context of war and the self-image to represent the space between the construction of the boundaries, between looking and feeling, knowing and representing. Taking as a starting point the shooting painting/performances of Niki DeSaint Phalle (1961-3) in which she publicly shot large pre-prepared canvases partially as an anti -war protest.

www.fabyc.co.uk

Harminder Singh Judge

Harminder Singh Judge is an interdisciplinary artist creating work across a variety of formats, including performance, installation, prop/object, video, photography, sound and sculpture. He has shown work at TATE Modern, Centre for Contemporary Art Poland and the Fierce Festival Birmingham amongst others.

Judge is interested in the translation of the Sublime and Divine by man, the symbolism and authority utilised and held by religion and the meeting of East and West. His work often appears as a struggle either for object, performer or audience, calming yet unsettling, sometimes sexual yet nauseating, often uncanny yet alien, and always visually striking.

www.harminderjudge.com

Heath Bunting

Heath Bunting was born a Buddhist in Wood Green, London, UK and is able to make himself laugh. He is a co-founder of both net.art and sport-art movements and is banned for life from entering the USA for his anti-GM work. His self taught and authentically independent work is direct and uncomplicated and has never been awarded a prize or been bought or sold. He is both Britain's most important practising artist and The World's most famous computer artist. He aspires to be a skillful member of the public and is producing an expert system for identity mutation.

Avon canoe pilot, supported by this bursary, is a classic Buddhist sport-art project it is only itself, making no allusions or associations to things greater or more established than itself it exists within the realms of sport/adventure and exploration all activities are performed in a state of beginners mind, which is aspired to by many, but is also highly provocative.

Ilana Mitchell

Further details to follow.

John Jordan

John Jordan's work merges the imagination of art and the social engagement of politics. Co-director of social practice group Platform (1987-1995) he then went on to be a co-founder of Reclaim the Streets and most recently the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.
 
With the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination he is currently searching for lifeboats that will take us out of the impending global ecological collapse. Supported by a roaming bursary, "Paths Through Utopias" will take the Lab on a seven-month journey through Utopian communities and will result in a road movie, a publication, a blog and series of performance workshops merging art, life and collective survival skills.

www.utopias.eu

Michael Mayhew

I am an artist.
It is the most comfortable location for me to be.
It enables me to be perpetually displaced.
With my bursary I am going to travel over land to Australia to look for a sister in the desert. I am locating that which has vanished. Her name is Carole.

Michael Mayhew has been working in the new performance sector for 20 years. In that time he has engaged with a multiplicity of art forms that have often been inspired by the environments he finds himself in. Performances manifest according to what is happening in the world, whom he met that day, what he’s heard or witnessed, what matters to that particular audience in a particular place and time.

Presently Artist in Residence at the School of Environmental Development, University Manchester and Honorary Associate Artist at the National Review of Live Art.

www.michaelmayhew.com

Simon Whitehead (Wales) & Barnaby Oliver (Australia)

PINGS springs directly from the geographical distance between two collaborators. Working directly from their locales they will explore the physical space between them through rivers and air and a range of other terrains with their own qualities – communication links through the web, phone networks, postal, and the less tangible links of memory and synchronicity.

The artists will begin an exchange of performance and materials through these various channels as a means of mapping these terrains. Over time this will create a continuous feedback system. As with any feedback system, artefacts (imperfections) are introduced that begin to give us information about the space it occupies – as a tree is bent to the wind or a pebble smoothed by the sea.

www.untitledstates.net

Susannah Hewlett

Susannah Hewlett works in performance, installation, video and sound in site-specific live events which borrow and subvert emblematic moments from our commercial and social realms. She experiments with interbreeding Cousin High-Art and Uncle Light-Entertainment and more specifically the peripheral aspects of events: entrances and exits, beginnings and endings, anticipation and deflation. She is interested in humour giving way to irritation, anticipation and deflation, discomfort or sadness - using repetition and circularity has been an important way to exploit these tensions in past works.  The work has often functioned as intervention relating specifically to the structures of the event, exhibition or institution in which it exists - in a sort of parasitic way.

During her residency, Susannah will be using the particulars of the theatre at Toynbee Studios to fuel new ideas embedded within this performance context.

Tom Fleming & Edwin Pennicott

Tom Fleming & Edwin Pennicott are a collaborative partnership, who have been working together since 2002. Their work is concerned with the nature of perception, illusion, and the relation between the false and the real, the virtual and the physical, explored through sculpture and performative installation. Their work deals with the perceptual capabilities of the camera and how the camera image is interpreted as a representation of a physical environment. The artists play on our assumptions about what we see and question the decisions that determine what we choose to look at.

www.pennicottfleming.com