Year 2023

Here is a summary of events for Igneous from the year 2023

Our projects and activities

We completed the film Voices of Hakka Women with five different language versions. It was an award winner [short doc] at Moondance International Film Festival, Boulder, USA; semi-finalist at Her Vision Film Festival, New York, USA; got a special mention at The Asia South East—Short Film Festival, London, UK; and was shown in the Asia Feedback Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, and the Women’s International Film Festival, Newark, USA.

Suzon created miniature galaxies and took the installation ASSEMBLE to PQ2023 (Prague Quadrennial), working with Belgian composer Bob Vanderbob for the video part, and collaborating with ASEKOL, an e-waste company in Prague.

James created the streaming website Evidence Earth Existed with photo slideshows of his walks in streets, creeks and wetlands.

Suzon had a residency in Vollenhove, the Netherlands, creating polder kolder, a video with Annie Abrahams and Jan de Weille.

Suzon conducted the workshop ‘Sculptures Electroniques Recyclees’ for children 8–12 using e-waste, which was organised by Youplaboum in Brussels.

Suzon was in residence at Magdalena Montpellier Festival, making the installation Archeo-Galaxy with e-waste in the context of the closing event, and gave two workshops to TAFE students. James came for the end of the residency to help set up the  installation.

James partook in the 10-day School of Nomadic Urbanism—organised by Wiels and Cifas as part of Feral2023 Festival, in Brussels, had a mini residency at Das Klöhauschen, in Munich, and a 2-week Walking As Practice residency at Björkö Konstnod, Sweden.

James and Suzon attended the Symposium Walking is still honest: about moving and being together in Vilnius, Lithuania, where James did the performance Still/City with about 40 participants.

In Brussels, they both exhibited in the group exhibition 5 at Youplaboum: James with animation and photo-media prints, Suzon with sculpture, jewellery and artist books.

Outside Jobs/partnerships/collaborations

James performed in Ellis Hutch’s Flow States in Botanica.

Links

evidenceearthexisted.vhx.tv


Year 2022

Here are some noteworthy events for Igneous from the year 2022

January
Suzon took up the position of 'Provocator' for the development of the play So Near So Far by EmmaChe Reathke.

February
Suzon resumed volunteering at E-Waste Connection one day a week.
Suzon undertook a silversmithing course at Brisbane Institute of Art (BIA).
Members of the Igneous Management Committee living in the Northern Rivers were impacted by the floods.

March
We provided flood clean-up support to BIA in Brisbane, and frozen home-cooked meals to folks in Lismore.
We began working on the translations of poems for Voices of Hakka Women—a video project with Ya-Ling Peng in Taiwan.

April
Suzon's video triptych was screened as part of the Vulcana Cinemata program.

May
James started Butoh classes with Yuki Taniguchi.
Suzon created the video-scenography for On Your Wings by Amaranta Osorio, with James doing the voiceover.

June
On Your Wings had a work in progress showing in the Transit Festival in Denmark.
Suzon joined the 3-month Fashioning Technology workshop with Tara Pattenden.

July
We coordinated the international vocal recordings of actresses for Voices of Hakka Women—remotely for those overseas, and in the studio for those in Brisbane.
So Near So Far had a work in progress showing at QPAC.
Suzon started working with French producer Nadine Massaro, for promotion of BE LIKE BODY–OBSOLETE.

August
BE LIKE BODY–OBSOLETE was performed online for the Along The Edge International Festival in Hong Kong.

September
We began the 7-week shoot/record/rough edit in Taiwan of Voices of Hakka Women, with Ya-Ling Peng, Uhan Shii theatre, and guests.

October
We got taken on a 3-day road trip with Umav Balalavi around Kaoshiung district to meet indigenous people.

November
Back in Brisbane, we completed the first draft of Voices of Hakka Women.

December
We had two stalls at the Tupong Christmas Market, in Annerley.


Year 2021

Here are some noteworthy events for Igneous from the year 2021

Our projects and activities

Be Like Body–Obsolete had a creative development at Merivale Studio - QPAC, and was performed in the Magdalena Online Festival, the 30th International Festival Mujeres En Escena Por La Paz in Colombia (video version), and in Mestiza Chile Festival (live - simplified version).

The e-book Be Like Body–Obsolete was designed and published under the ISBN: 978-0-9925610-1-7

The Waterwheel archive was taken offline.

SuzonFuksDesign was entered in markets in Paddington, Westend, Annerley and Brussels.

 

Outside Jobs/partnerships/collaborations

Website designs for Playmoves, YogaYeronga, and the Magdalena Online Festival.

Documentation for Magdalena Online Festival, and the showreel for NEW UpStage 

Before the First (video). Compiled by Annie Abrahams, Helen Varley Jamieson and Suzon Fuks. Edited by Suzon Fuks.

 

Links

Documentation of 'Be Like Body–Obsolete' on VIMEO

full performance: https://vimeo.com/suzon/belikebody-obsolete-documentation

artists talk: https://vimeo.com/suzon/blikebody-artiststalk

poets reciting their text: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8498291

5min excerpts:  https://vimeo.com/suzon/excerpts-for-assemble

 

Before the First (video) https://vimeo.com/503467731

Playmoves (website) https://playmoves.org

Yoga Yeronga (website) https://yogayeronga.com

Magdalena Online Festival (website) https://onlinefestival.themagdalenaproject.org


Year 2020

Here is a summary of events for Igneous from the year 2020

Our projects and activities

Reading The Nauru Files 2020 was live streamed on Facebook as a global 24hr online performance with about 60 readers (July)

For Be Like Body Obsolete #4, Suzon accumulated stripped technology for set (Aug–Dec), and in November exhibited the Obsolete Series artist books in ABBE book fair.

The Fragmentation video was streamed by University of Colorado – Boulder in December.

Outside Jobs/partnerships/collaborations

We designed and created seed boxes, eco-dyed cards + Groundings audio sticks for Creative Recovery’s Love Boxes.

Suzon initiated a monthly curated meeting AT:HOME:LIVE, in the lead up to Magdalena Online Festival.

We worked on two creative developments for Baran Theatre. Hejab: Development and filming at Baran Studio and Dutton Park (June/July), and Disappearance Project: 2–week residency at Vulcana (Nov–Dec)

We did the video documentation of Vulcana Circus’ Rear Vision show in Vulcana carpark (Dec).


Year 2019

Here is a summary of events for Igneous from the year 2019

Our projects and activities

Suzon created a series of Artist Books using obsolete technology and used cooking foil.

Reading The Nauru Files 2019 was a 24hr online performance on Facebook, live streaming event with 50 readers.

Wetland Wander was exhibited at Redlands Performing Arts Centre and Redlands Gallery, Cleveland (Sep–Oct), and in Griffith stand at BIIG Conference, Brisbane (Oct). We conducted Children and Adults Workshops, and created a card game for workshops.

We ran Beautiful Rising Workshops, finding missions and designing actions for a small group of activist artists.

In an Open Studio, Suzon and Katrine exhibited books, sculpture, photos and jewellery.

What I Did Not Say (Igneous co-production) toured to 

  • Kolkata, India (Tantidhatri Festival)
  • Madrid, Spain - Theatre and Feminism Conference at RESAD
  • Holstebro, Denmark - Transit Festival
  • Montpellier, France - Magdalena Montpellier Festival
  • Quito, Ecuador - Festival “Tiempos de mujer”

Outside Jobs/partnerships/collaborations

James ran Disability Arts Workshops for The Last Avant Garde - the MelbU/AAV/SydU/ARC research project, AKA ‘Disability and the Performing Arts in Australia: Beyond the Social Model’.

Baran - Tower of Babel - at Metro Arts. James training cast and Suzon making video-scenography and documentation


Year 2018

Here is a summary of events for Igneous from the year 2018

Our projects and activities

We worked with Dr Fernanda Adame and Leah Barclay to create Wetland Wander. The project  raised awareness about wetland values, connected with Traditional Owners, was supported by the Queensland Government, and had the following outcomes: website, series of postcards, IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION dual-channel video projection & quadraphonic sound, and SCREEN-BASED WORKS: video walks, dronescapes, interviews.

We co-produced, with Ripe Dance, the dance video In A Different Space–Elders Dancing. Suzon was DOP and editor, and made videos to crowdfund via the Australia Cultural Fund in order to pay composer Guy Webster to make an original soundtrack. It had a first screening at the end of May 2018 for the participants, then was shown in festivals in Australia,  UK, and USA.

Reading the Nauru Files was live streamed for 24 hrs on Facebook, with 50 readers.

We co-produced the creative development of Amaranta Osorio’s performance What I Did Not Say. Suzon was outside eye and video-scenographer and James was movement consultant. It occurred during residencies at Artephile in Avignon, and  Duomo Theatre in Santiago de Chile. The work-in-progres was shown in the 3rd International Mestiza Chile Festival.

Outside Jobs/partnerships/collaborations

Suzon mentored Marion Conrow for a year, under an Australia Council Grant - Experimental & Emerging Arts.

James continued training the cast of Baran’s Tower of Babel, and Suzon created video-scenography and documentation.


Year 2017

Here is a summary of events for Igneous from the year 2017

Our projects and activities

The National Library of Australia made a large acquisition of documentary photographs of commercial kitchens of King Street, Newtown, and Oxford Street, Paddington, Darlinghurst and Bondi Junction.

James and Suzon were artists in residence at Villa Waldberta, Munich for 3 months. They were part of the Overflow project, which included exhibitions at Domagk Halle, and at REW (Bureau of Work), Munich. They conducted Walkshops in Feldafing, created #wecandobetter installation performance, and captured slow walks in creeks.

Reading the Nauru Files was live streamed on Facebook. 

Suzon upskilled in bookbinding in a masterclass at SLQ.

#wecandobetter was the basis for workshops and performances for Magdalena Segunda Generación Festival, in Buenos Aires and Pinamar.

Suzon attended (upon invitation) the Water Futures forum in Melbourne organised by Tipping Point Australia in the context of AsiaTOPA Festival.

James and Suzon attended Balance/Unbalance Conference in Plymouth, UK, presenting Fluidata sound installation and a walkshop.

Suzon attended the IETM plenary meeting in Brussels with the Australian Delegation, and gave a lecture at the Arts Academy, in Tournai.

Outside Jobs/partnerships/collaborations

James trained the Baran cast for their season in Melbourne.

We did a video and photo shoot of a reading of Therese Collie's play White China at QT.

Suzon continued the development of The Book of Space in the Magdalena Festival in Santa Clara, Cuba, and at Odin Teatret in Hostebro, Denmark.

Suzon did a photo shoot of Gush’s circus/theatre piece Monsteria.


Year 2016

Here are some noteworthy events for Igneous from the year 2016

Our Projects and Activities

The final event we held on Waterwheel was Waterworks! on World Water Day 2016: 250+ entries, 150+ scientists, artists, activists and youth from 5 continents contributed to the call for the online exhibition. 22 curators from 19 countries discussed selected entries and responded to online audience (18–20 March 2016). After that we archived water-wheel.net (until 2021), allowing for 5 years to the media centre but not to the interactive elements on the Tap.

Suzon photographed commercial kitchens of King Street, Newtown, and Oxford Street, Paddington, Darlinghurst and Bondi Junction, as a sequel to photos taken in 1998, and part of her People in their Kitchen series. She also photographed at the Women’s Interfaith Network meeting, in Sydney. The State Library of NSW bought small collections of both projects.

We did a Fluidata Creek Walkshop as part of Walking the Meshwork: an interactive symposium on walking as research, education and artistic practice, at SCU, Lismore.

Suzon upskilled in bookbinding, and ‘Actionskills’ (campaigning skills), workshops.

James and Suzon attended Performance Art/Live Art lab for 3 days at BigCi in the Blue Mountains.

Suzon attended the Artsfront forum in Melbourne

Suzon started visiting refugees at BITA detention centre in Pinkenba, Brisbane and engaging with asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru islands. She produced several campaign videos #bringthemhere with Scotia Monkivitch, and started to attend Mums4Refugees meetings.

James sat on the Disability and Arts panel for the February 2016 round of Australia Council for the Arts.

Igneous auspiced Suzon Fuks’ 2017 overseas residencies grant from  Australia Council for the Arts. She also received a professional development grant (in her name) from Arts Queensland.

Outside Jobs/partnerships/collaborations

We provided training of performers and choreographed movement sequences for the Metro Arts season, and editing of a promotional video of the Baran Theatre play Vis and Ramin.

We produced a promotional and documentation video and photos for Anna Yen’s Slow Boat, and Sarah Houbolt’s KooKoo the Birdgirl.

Suzon continued the development of video-scenography, audience engagement and co-direction, and WIP showing of The Book of Space (with Jill Greenhalgh) at Transit Festival in Denmark.

Suzon worked on the development of Ladyfinger’s An Invitation to Sit with Death Awhile, with performances in Deathfest at Metro Arts.


Year 2015

Here are some noteworthy events for Igneous from the year 2015

Our Projects

The Waterwheel website had a new development in partnership with Inkahoots, that included addition or updates to Categories, FAQs, Pages, the Step-By-Step entry, and the Tap demo. David Suzuki made the comment ‘Waterwheel, an important project with real impact’. We launched the e-book Water Views—Caring and Daring, which contains the proceedings of the Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium 2014, and we held HOT WATER—Water, Peace & War, a curated online exhibition on Waterwheel, with panels on the Tap.

We co-produced Fluidata with QUT Creative Industries Precinct (Digital Associates Program). It included Fluidata—Memories the online part of Fluidata developed in collaboration with regional workshop participants, especially Bonemap, Cairns; Fluidata—Installation & Performances, a public interactive installation with durational performances by Cunningham & Fuks, and online performances with Queensland regional artists; and Fluidata—Lab, a workshop with professional artists interacting with Fluidata installation.

We successfully acquitted an Arts Queensland Projects and Programs grant, and a Brisbane City Council Creative Sparks grant for Fluidata, and an Australia Council for the Arts projects grant (Artists with Disability panel) for Fluidata—Live Performances by Cunningham & Fuks.

Outside Projects

We helped Healthy Waterways stream their event Science in the (Online) Pub through the Tap. Balance/Unbalance Conference at Arizona State University used Waterwheel to stream several presentations and keynote sessions. We did a performative presentation for Brisbane City Council’s  Creative Awards night. We shot and edited documentation and promotional videos of WIP of Anna Yen’s play Slow Boat, and facilitated public engagement in Caldor Art Projects’ Abramovic in Residence exhibition in Sydney.

Suzon joined the creative development in Wales of Jill Greenhalch’s Book of Space, as video-scenographer. The work had in-progress showings at Aberystwyth University, Wales, and at Ouverture(s) Festival, Montpellier.