Supporters
Supporters
Igneous’ projects have been funded by Australian national, state and local governments, and philanthropic trusts.
Their creative development has been supported through artistic residencies in Australia, Asia, the UK and America.
Their works have been presented in festivals and cultural venues throughout the world, across a broad spectrum of contexts, including dance, screendance, intermedia, photography, arts & disability, puppetry, live art and visual theatre.
Collaborators
Collaborators
Artists who have collaborated on Igneous projects:
Aafke de Jong (Dramaturg)
Alberto Vazquez (Waterwheel Ambassador)
Alex Clarke (Graphic Designer)
Alison Ross (Set Designer)
Amaranta Osorio (Poet, Performer, Playwright)
Amin Hammami (Online Crew, Performer)
Amin Hammami (Waterwheel Guest Author, Panelist, Curator, Performer)
Andrew Kettle (Sound Designer)
Anna Yen (Deviser, Performer)
Annie Abrahams (Poet, Performer)
Annie Abrahams (Waterwheel Guest Panelist, Curator)
Atefeh Khas (Waterwheel Curator)
Bobvan (Composer, Sound Designer)
Brian McCarty (Lighting Designer, Production Manager)
Bruce Ellison (Performer, Puppeteer)
Camilla Boemio (Waterwheel Curator)
Carolyn Hammer (Choreographer, Performer)
Catherine Lee (Waterwheel Curator)
Charles Wiles (Lighting Designer, Production Manager)
Charlotte Cutting (Editor)
Cherry Truluck (Online Crew, Performer)
Claudia Jacques (Waterwheel Curator)
David Holmes (Performer)
Dawn Albinger (Performer, Waterwheel Editor)
Dawn Albinger (Performer)
Di Busuttil (Choreographer, Performer)
Doug Leonard (Dramaturg, Performer, Poet)
Eddie Kay (Choreographer, Performer)
Eklavya Prasad (Waterwheel Curator)
Eric Leonardson (Waterwheel Curator)
Faramarz Keshawarz-Rahber (Video Documenter)
Felicette Chazerand (Choreographer, Performer)
Felicity Organ-Moore (Lighting Designer, Production Manager)
Fernanda Adame (Scientist, Aquatic Ecologist)
Frank Michael (Editor)
Frank Soehnle (Performer, Puppeteer, Puppet Maker)
Freddy Komp (Videographer, Technical Manager)
Gillian Kehoul (Waterwheel Editor)
Hannah Jenkin (Performer)
Hedva Eltanani (Online Crew, Performer)
Helen Varley Jamieson (Performer)
Iain Court (Lighting Designer, Production Manager)
Ian Clothier (Waterwheel Curator)
Ian Winter (Waterwheel Developer, Performer)
Ilka Blue Nelson (Waterwheel Curator)
Inkahoots (Graphic Designers, Progammers)
James Cunningham (Choreographer, Deviser, Performer, Workshop Facilitator, Sound Engineer)
Jason Grant (Waterwheel Curator)
Jeff Turpin (Musician, Set Designer, Waterwheel Performer)
Joanna Hoffmann (Waterwheel Curator)
Joelle Reyns (Production Manager)
Julie Robson (Waterwheel Editor)
Julien Pohlen (Performer)
Kamal Krishna (Performer)
Karenza Bowen (Videographer)
Karin Ersching (Lighting Designer, Production Manager)
Katarina DJ Urošević (Online Crew, Performer)
Katarina Djordjevic Urosevic (Waterwheel Curator)
Kate Holmes (Choreographer, Performer)
Kath Duncan (Performer, Writer)
Keith Armstrong (Mentor)
Kian Ralph (Performer)
Leah Barclay (Sound Artist)
Leah Barclay (Waterwheel Panelist, Curator, Performer)
Lee McIver (Composer, Performer)
Leilani Holmes (Performer)
Lila Moore (Waterwheel Guest Author)
Liz Bryce (Waterwheel Guest Author)
Maartje Belmer (Choreographer, Online Crew, Performer, Project Assistant)
Margaret Shiu (Waterwheel Curator)
Marion Conrow (Multimedia Artist)
Mark Bromley (Composer, Performer)
Matthew Davis (Composer, Interactivity)
Mazza Magoo (Sound Recorder)
Michele Guieu (Waterwheel Panelist)
Molly Hankwitz (Waterwheel Panelist & Editor)
Morgan Randall (Lighting Designer, Production Manager)
Nasim Khosravi (Poet, Performer)
Nathan Tight (Choreographer, Performer)
Nathen Street (Interactive System Designer)
Nina Czegledy (Waterwheel Curator)
Parvathy Baul (Poet, Singer)
Pascale Barret (Waterwheel Curator, Performer)
Peter Notley (Choreographer, Performer)
Peter Oldham (Video Documenter)
Quentin Buckle (Poet)
Rachael Parsons (Curator)
Rebecca Palmer (puppet maker)
Rebecca Youdell (Deviser, Performer)
Ricardo Dal Farra (Waterwheel Panelist, Curator, Performer)
Ricardo Dal Farra (Waterwheel Panelist, Curator)
Rikki Ray (Composer, Performer)
Rob Tannion (Choreographer, Deviser, Performer)
Rozina Suliman (Set Designer)
Russell Emerson (Technical Consultant)
Russell Milledge (DOP)
Russell Milledge (Waterwheel Guest Author)
Sarah Jane Pell (Waterwheel Editor)
Scotia Monkivitch (Choreographer, Performer)
Sharka Bosakova (Costume Designer)
Silvana Tuccio (Waterwheel Editor, Panelist, Curator)
Simon Adams (Choreographer, Performer)
Sivamani (Composer, Performer)
Sofia Woods (Choreographer, Deviser, Performer)
Sunita Jariwala (Assistant Director)
Suzon Fuks (Choreographer, Designer, Deviser, Director, Multimedia Artist, Performer, Photographer, Workshop Facilitator)
V. Selva Ganesh (Composer, Performer)
Victoria Vesna (Waterwheel Curator)
Vinildas Gurukkal (Kalaripayyatt Master, Performer)
Vinod Kumar K.V. (Videographer)
West D.L. Marrin (Waterwheel Panelist, Curator)
Will Davis (Sound Engineer, Network Technician)
Ya-Ling Peng (Poet, Performer)
Younghee Park (Poet, Performer)
Zane Trow (Composer)
Zsuzsi Soboslay (Waterwheel Guest Author, Panelist, Curator, Performer)
Board
Board
Igneous Inc. was incorporated in January 1997.
The Management Committee is:
Kea Costello – President
Jane Eliott – Vice President
Anne Mary Dorrian – Secretary, Public Officer
Ken Livingstone – Treasurer
Suzon Fuks – Ordinary Committee Member, co-Artistic Director
James Cunningham – Ordinary Committee Member, co-Artistic Director
Residencies
Residencies
Explore the global residencies of Igneous, where innovative projects and international collaborations have grown from Taipei to the USA.
2022: Uhan Shii Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan
2020–2021: Vulcana, Meanjin/Brisbane
2018: Mestiza Festival, Santiago, Chile
2018: Artephile, Avignon, France
2017: Villa Waldberta, Feldafing, Germany
2013: Earthdance, Plainfield, MA, USA
2012: Copeland Colloquium, Amherst College, MA, USA
2011: Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane
2010: Tamantirto, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2009: Villa Waldberta, Feldafing, Germany
2006: The Australia Choreographic Centre, Canberra
2003: Dance4 (Line of Enquiry program), Nottingham, UK
2002–2004: Brisbane Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts, Brisbane
2001: Centre for Performance Studies, University of Sydney
2000: Centre for Performance Studies, University of Sydney
1999–2000: Asialink residency, South India
Funders
Funders / Partners
Igneous has received grants and support from:
Arts Queensland
Australia Council for the Arts
Baran Theatre
Brisbane City Council
Brisbane City Council Creative Sparks
Cloncurry Shire Council
Commonwealth Jewish Council, London
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Images of Australia Branch
Gympie Regional Gallery
Inkahoots
KickArts Contemporary Arts Cairns
Ladyfinger
Livingstone Shire Council
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York
Museum and Gallery Services Queensland.
Myer Foundation
NSW Ministry for the Arts
Pratt Foundation
QPAC Merivale studio
QUT Creative Industries through the Digital Associates Program
Uhan Shii Theatre
Ulay
VicHealth
Vulcana
Western Downs Regional Council through Dogwood Crossing Miles
Festivals
Festivals
Festivals and venues that have presented Igneous’ work include:
Argentina: Festival Internacional VideoDanzaBA, Buenos Aires
Australia: Awakenings Festival, Horsham; High Beam Festival, Adelaide; ISEA 2012, Sydney; ISEA 2024, Meanjin/Brisbane; Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane; Latitude 27.5 Festival, Powerhouse, Brisbane; Metro Arts DeathFest; Mixed Metaphor, Dance House, Melbourne; One Minute Reels finalist, Newcastle; Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts, Brisbane; ReelDance Festival; Rex Cramphorn Studio, Centre for Performance Studies, Sydney; Star Court Theatre, Lismore; The Australian Choreographic Centre, Canberra; The Edge Theatre, Sydney
Belgium: D’ici et d’Ailleurs Festival de Danse, Brussels; DANSCAMDANSE Festival, Gent; La Bellone, Brussels
Brazil: Danca Em Foco, Rio de Janeiro; São Carlos Videodance Festival
Canada: Asian Feedback Film Festival, Toronto; festival ROMP, Victoria; Scotiabank Nuit Blanche & Abilities Arts Festival, Toronto
Chile: Mestiza Festival, Santiago
Croatia: Xontakt, Split
France: Biennale Internationale des Arts de la Marionnette, Paris; François-Rabelais University, Tours; Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris; Giboulées de la Marionnette, Strasbourg; Magdalena Montpellier Festival; Mimos, Périgueux; International Video Dance Festival, Le Breuil
Germany: Blickwechsel International Figure Theatre Festival, Magdeburg; FITZ Festival, Stuttgart; Theater der Welt Festival, Stuttgart; One Minute Film Collection (OMFC), Cologne; ZKMax, Munich
Hungary: EDIT International Dance Film Festival, Budapest
Italy: Il Coreografo Elettronico, NapoliDanza
Latvia: Riga City Fest in Riga
Mexico: FOTOGRAFEST, Cuernavaca
Netherlands: Cinedans, Amsterdam; Balance/Unbalance, Rotterdam
Poland: Banialuka International Festival of Puppetry Art, Bielsko-Biała
Portugal: Quinzena de Dança de Almada – Contemporary Dance Festival
Spain: NU2’s VideoDansa, Barcelona
Switzerland: Blickfelder Festival, Zurich; International Day of Puppetry, Baden
United Kingdom: Asia South East Short Film Festival, London; Balance/Unbalance, Plymouth; Mediatised Sites Festival, Newcastle; NOW Festival, Nottingham; Visions2002 International Festival of Visual Performance, Brighton; MOVES, Manchester
United States of America: Dance on Camera Festival, NY; Her Vision Film Festival, NY; Moondance International Film Festival, Boulder; Not Quite Normal Experimental Moving Image Festival, Hollywood; Women’s International Film Festival, Newark
Online: Along The Edge Festival, Hong Kong; Balance/Unbalance; BODIES:ON:LIVE Magdalena:on:line; DIAL (Day in a Life), Munich; Electrosmog, Amsterdam; International Festival Mujeres En Escena Por La Paz, Colombia; Mediatised Sites Festival, Newcastle; Mestiza Chile; Ninthletter.com; UpStage 070707, 080808, 090909, 101010 & 121212 Festivals
About Us
About Us
About Igneous
IGNEOUS, based in Brisbane and established in 1997, creates multimedia movement-based performances for the stage, screen and alternative spaces, documentary, photography, and conducts forums, workshops and master-classes nationally and internationally.
Igneous has had work presented in numerous international festivals across a broad spectrum, including dance, screendance, new media, art & disability, puppetry, live art & visual theatre. Igneous also publishes and produces in collaboration with partner artists and organisations.
Their interests lay in research, process, interaction and diversity. They utilise artistic skills, clumsiness, true stories, abstraction, details of daily life, the spectacular and the unspectacular. They explore ideas, issues, meanings, nuances and analogies.
Projects are driven primarily by the co-artistic directors Suzon Fuks and James Cunningham. Collaborating artists are sought for most projects, and some collaborators have worked on multiple projects. All Projects – Archive of Igneous former website.
About Suzon
SUZON FUKS is an artist bridging art, science and the environment, using body-based practices, the moving image, photography and interactive technologies.
Suzon was born in Brussels, where she trained in dance, theatre and music at Lilian Lambert Academy (69-76) and completed her Masters in Visual Arts at La Cambre (79-84), a school formed on the Bauhaus philosophy, examining how different artistic disciplines inform each other. She has lived in Australia since 1996.
Suzon has been Co-Artistic Director of the multi-arts organisation Igneous since its inception in 97 with James Cunningham, her long-term collaborator. Multi-award-winner, she also received the prestigious Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship and Copeland Fellowship.
She initiated and founded the online platform Waterwheel, dedicated to water issues. http://water-wheel.net 1,500 artists, scientists, activists, teachers & youth from 34 countries and 81 locations took part in the project, which is archived since mid-2016. In 2015, she was a facilitator of the 30,000+ visitors to Marina Abramovic’s installation “In Residence” in Sydney. https://suzonfuks.net/
About James
JAMES CUNNINGHAM is a performance, movement, video and networked performance artist working in social, environmental and architectural surroundings, exploring the limits of bodily perception, performativity and the relationality of one’s self with others, objects,and environment. He graduated in Dance Performance from the Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide, in 1988.
Cunningham is Co-Artistic Director of Igneous since 1997. With Igneous, he has co-choreographed and performed in stage shows, performance-installations, video-dance works and networked/online performances in festivals and cities around the world, including Nuit Blanche Toronto (“Mirage”), BIAM Paris (“Body in Question”), and Theater Der Welt Stuttgart (“Liquid Skin”).
Since 2007, he engages in durational stillness and conscious walking, in built and unbuilt environments, with and without audience, and with and without the participation of others. He explores the performative possibilities of these elements in live art festivals, conferences and videos. https://cunninghamwalks.com/
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'Wetland Wander' slow walk - screen work
Redland Art Gallery
Cleveland 2019
'Wetland Wander' slow walk - screen work
Redland Art Gallery
Cleveland 2019
Creek Walkshop
Plymouth, UK, 2018
Creek Walkshop
Plymouth, UK, 2018
Igneous Projects
Explore Igneous' diverse range of projects. Partnering with artists from various disciplines, including graphic design, sound engineering, and performance, Igneous crafts unique, site-responsive works that engage audiences in new and exciting ways.
Our History
Beginning with videodance and documentary photography, and evolving through groundbreaking performances in Sydney and beyond, Igneous has consistently pushed the boundaries of live performance and multimedia art. Their journey reflects a commitment to artistic innovation and community engagement, from early works like "Body in Question" to international residencies and site-specific installations.