A collection of our esteemed friends and colleagues
Friends
Crawl.net.au
The aim of Crawl is to provide a central resource for artists, students and anybody interested in the ARI community to find out what is happening in ARIs all around Australia.
Eva Meyer-Keller
Eva Meyer-Keller is our lovely friend, making super performances and videos in Berlin.
Fish and Game
Self proclaimed purveyors of fine performance and the performance related arts, Fish and Game are also our fine friends. Formerly known as Reader they featured in our joint project Strangers and Intimacy and are the FAG half of illustrious new group PANFAG.
Forced Entertainment
Forced Entertainment are Britains most brilliant experimental theatre company according to the Guardian newspaper.
Goat Island Performance
This US based performance company make incredible performances; complex, beautiful and funny, one often wonders just how do they do it ...
Gob Squad
Gob Squad make wicked performances, videos, installations and weird happenings, mixing performance, theatre, film and real life. We will visit them in Berlin in the autumn, to learn a little of their collective genius.
Mimic Mass
Maddy and Sarah's other project. A sound based performance collective where we live out all our fantasies as rock/pop goddesses.
Propeller
These are friends of ours in Devon, England who make performances that "engage in debates surrounding perception, orientation and ecology" and it keeps them very busy!
PVI Collective
PVI create most of their artworks in direct response to a city, town or site investigating it’s fears, hopes and concerns about personal freedoms, often offering up darkly humorous survival tactics for living in a panoptic 21st century.
Rosie Denis
Rosie Denis is a Sydney-based artist and friend who mixes movement and text to create deceptively simple and intensely evocative work.
Symbiotic System
These are some of our music making friends.
Tape Projects
Tape Projects is a collective of young and emerging artists who champion provocative, temporal, audio-visual works and site-specific performances by our peers in and around Melbourne.
Tessa Staib
Panther's delightful, funny, clever web designer, who made this very site!
Venues
Arts House and Culture Lab
Arts House and Culture Lab at the Meat Market where Panther finished making Exercises in happiness in 2006. Thank you Culture Lab.
PACT Zollverein
PACT Zollverein (Performing Arts Choreographisches Zentrum NRW Tanzlandschaft Ruhr, founded in 2002) is an international theatre venue and interdisciplinary research foundation for the arts. We will spend this November in residence here, busily making our new work which is temporarily titled We Don't Want To Shop Anymore.
Performance Space
Performance Space is the national centre for contemporary interdisciplinary arts and hybrid performance practice and it is in this hot bed for creative hot flushes and art making zaps that Exercises in Happiness was made.
Festivals
Singapore Fringe Festival
A very exciting dynamic festival in Singapore with a very exciting line up of works from around the world
ANTI Festival
The ANTI Festival is located in a small finish town called Kuopio. This is a very exciting context based arts festival that we will be visiting later this year.
Other
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