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NYID returns to Australia after adventures, discoveries and participation in artistic developments, cultural exchanges and industry events around the globe. NYID가 전세계를 돌아 새로운 예술적 영감과 문화적 교류를 얻어서 다시 호주로 돌아왔습니다.
To China and back
NYID Artistic Director David Pledger returned last week from Hong Kong where he attended the Grand Opening of the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre at Hong Kong's City University. The centre, designed by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, is the new home for Australia's own Jeffrey Shaw, a leading figure in new media art and interactive cinema and a long-time artistic collaborator of NYID. (Eavesdrop, UnmakeableLove)
The Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre combines an academic facility for the School with a public outreach program forging links with industry and community. The building features dedicated spaces for interactive and immersive technology research, media art exhibitions and new media theatrical production. The Centre is a major creative nexus for Hong Kong and a forum for on-going local and international exchange.
As part of the Opening Festival Program, David attended the Art & Science Symposium and experienced immersive and interactive performances specially commissioned for the event, including a new work by composer Ulf Langheinrich (Granular Synthesis) with whom he is discussing a new composition.
To Korea and back
NYID General Manager Lydia Teychenné participated in the Performing Arts Market (PAMS) which took place on the 11th -14th October in Seoul, Korea. This year, under the title “Connecting to ASIA, People, Now,” PAMS adopted a collaboration-oriented, interactive approach focussing on international exchange. The PAMS focus session entitled ‘Work With Asia: Cases of International Collaboration” featured case studies including NYID/Wuturi projects strangeland (2009) and The Dispossessed 잃어버린 풍경들(2008). The cross-cultural collaboration between Korea’s Wuturi and Australia’s Not Yet It’s Difficult (NYID) was one of four relationships discussed, all of which are featured in the recently launched International Co-Productions Manual (2011). The publication is a joint venture between Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS) and IETM (International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts) to honour diverse experiences of international co-production and collaboration. NYID is proud to be the Australian company featured in the publication.
For your free, downloadable copy of the manual in English click here. 국제 공동제작 매뉴얼 한국어본을 무료로 다운로드 하시려면, 여기를 클릭하세요
“If you want to find out what you are and what you are not good at, make an international co-production. Never leave a project without having tried everything- it is a waste of all the effort that goes into making it happen.” David Pledger, Not Yet It’s Difficult, Australia (International Co-Production Manual pg. 10)
To Europe and back and beyond
NYID are planning the next development stages of AMPERS&ND 앰퍼센드, a performance research project which boldly exposes the primal, sensory relationship between performer and musician. The project creates an international ensemble of artists from three companies – NYID (Australia), Wuturi (Korea) and Elision (UK/Europe). In December in Melbourne, the company will meet with our Korean counterparts to work on the floor, plan and discuss the artistic and producing scenarios for 2012-2013. With the project’s first development commissioned by Germany’s European Centre for the Contemporary Performing Arts (Hellerau), the second and third stages are proudly assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and Korea Arts Management through the pilot Korea-Australia Initiative.
Not Yet It's Difficult is highly regarded for its approach to intercultural theatre practice, physical performance, multimedia theatre and site-specific installation. Wuturi specialise in traditional forms of music-driven theatre and dance… “The Australia Council is enormously proud of this partnership with KAMS and we are delighted to share the collaborative journey the companies will undertake,” says Collette Brennan, Director, Market Development.
To view the full Australia Council for the Arts Media Release, click here.
For the project, NYID have also been shortlisted from 270 submissions for the Creative Encounters program designed to link projects connecting Asia and Europe. The program is established by Arts Network Asia (ANA) and Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF).
Stay in touch with the company on twitter and facebook to hear and learn more about AMPERS&ND's development, industry presentation and feedback opportunities, as it sets aside a security blanket to ambitiously transcend language and culture as we know it, and uncover something entirely new in global performance making.
"We immensely enjoyed witnessing the amazing findings in regards to sound and movement that emerged from the artistic experiments." Barbara Damm, Programme Director Music/Music Theatre, Festspielhaus Hellerau (2011)