Transcend @ Into The Night Garden – Tortuga Studios

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Martin Renaud

I presented ”Transcend” at the laneways art event “In the Night Garden” in StPeters at Tortuga Studios. In this piece I wrapped myself up with rope and sat for a meditation for almost 2 hours while the process was being filmed and rear-projected on a screen behind me. This experience was for me an expression of how spiritual practice can be bounding and transcending at the same time, allowing the energetic body (or light body/video) to float above me. As if my spirit was trying to escape, the angle of the camera created the illusion that I was staring at the sky on the screen while I was gazing at the crowd in front of me.

Photos Alex Wisser

 

 

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PULSE Rooftop

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Martin Renaud

PULSE was a short season of six site-specific multimedia performances on Melbourne rooftops and in Shed 4, in April-May & November-December 2009.

Curated and produced by Michael Hornblow and I, PULSE presented our solo performance alongside dancers: Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare, theatre director: John Paul Hussey and sound artists: Jeffrey Hannam and Patrice Coulombe.

Thanks to Andrew Collins for editing the videos:

 

Sakasama Reverse World from PulseRooftop on Vimeo.

Yumi Umiumare’s Sakasama Reverse World with the participation of Tony Yap on the City Village Rooftop, Melbourne Australia, April 2009

Credits: Media Art by Bambang Nurcahyadi, Video and Sound edited by Bambang Nurcahyadi and Ian Corcoran, Videography by Richard Back, Anthony Pelchen and Yumi Umiumare.

 

EDGE from PulseRooftop on Vimeo.

EDGE is a performance by Tony Yap with the participation of Yumi Umiumare and the TYC performers on City Village Rooftop, Melbourne, Australia, April 2009

Credits: Installation – Naomi Ota, Composers/sound design – Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, Film – Sean O’Brien.

 

Do U Like 2 Wrestle from PulseRooftop on Vimeo.

Do U Like 2 Wrestle is a performance by John Paul Hussey presented at Shed4, Docklands, Melbourne, Australia, March 2009.

Credits:Concept & Direction – John Paul Hussey, Set Design – Ric Richmond, Light Design – Shane Grant, DJ & Live Guitar – Kelly Ryall, Mud Pool Mix – Gerard Farmer, Wrestling Judges – Lizzil Gay & Shane Grant

 

Common Tongue from PulseRooftop on Vimeo.

Martin Renaud’s and Patrice Coulombe Common Tongue was presented on the rooftop of 55 High St, Northcote, Australia, November 2009

Credits: Performer – Martin Renaud, Sound Artist and Programmer – Patrice Coulombe, Choreogapher – Sarah Wendt

Produced by Silex Creations at Bain St-Michel, Ville de Montreal August 2009

 

METAMORPHOSIS 4 2 from PulseRooftop on Vimeo.

METAMORPHOSIS 4 2 is a work by Jeffrey Hannam presented on the rooftop of 55 High St, Northcote, Australia, November 2009

Credits: Composer & Live Manipulation: Jeffrey Hannam, Bass: Karl Willebrant

 

tablet from PulseRooftop on Vimeo.

tablet is a performance art solo by Michael Hornblow presented on the rooftop of 55 High St, Northcote, Australia, December 2009.

Credits: Ric Haddon (Art Direction), Phillip Samartzis (Sound), Robbie Cole (Tech Direction), Romanie Harper (Costume), Christie Stott (Associate Producer). Produced by Dario Vacirca

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Nomadic Gardens @ Melaka Art & Performance Festival

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Martin Renaud

My partner Lia and I presented Nomadic Gardens at MAPFEST in Malaysia, November 2010. With the collaboration of Frank Gonzales Quiltsuns.

Nomadic Gardens
333 helium-inflated nomadic gardens in balloons, filled with sprouted seeds as a metaphor for the abundance though precarious nature of life. These floating gardens have the potential to land on auspicious ground and grow plants across the site of the festival and beyond. (Fri 26 – Sun 28 Nov 6pm @ Site 1 St Paul’s Church)
Launch MAPFEST 1
Launch MAPFEST 2

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Flickerfest

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Martin Renaud

I am the Operations Manager at Flickerfest since January 4, I’ll be organising the 30 venues Tour across Australia and I look after the distribution titles. This year the theme of the festival is Star Wars -ish, the trailer is pretty funny… May the Shorts Be With You!

20th Flickerfest International Film Festival Trailer from Flickerfest on Vimeo.

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Lu’arn

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Martin Renaud

While working as Executive Director of Open Channel I produced Lu’arn, a 24min documentary on contemporary indigenous dance. It was a commissioned program by the City of Port Philip that premiered at the St Kilda Short Film Festival 2010.

To watch Lu’arn : http://www.vimeo.com/12782802 (password: openchannel)

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Open Channel / Shed4 Theatrette & Creative Precinct

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Martin Renaud

One of the highlights of my contract at Open Channel was to setting up Shed4 a creative precinct in a 4000sqm warehouse (www.Shed4.com.au) attracting artistic and corporate hires generating 20% of Open Channel’s revenues with clients like the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Next Wave Festival, films and videoclips productions, etc. My vision for Shed4 was to be a space to learn, to make and to present screen programs on site at Open Channel. It now includes office space for four small screen production businesses, a classroom with editing suites, a film set and a 125 seat screening/events space.

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DJ Spooky: The Nauru Elegies @ Shed4

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Martin Renaud

I co-produced Dj Spooky: The Nauru Elegies A portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture at Shed 4, with Experimenta, Stable and RedBull Music.

THE NAURU ELEGIES : A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic ArchitectureThe Nauru Elegies is a multimedia portrait of the island of Nauru and this unique work explores the island in a state of economic collapse and environmental devastation. The performance reflects colonial and post-colonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated into a string quartet, composed by DJ Spooky.

DJ Spooky (aka Paul D. Miller) is a composer, multimedia artist and writer. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum and Raygun amongst others. Miller’s work as a media artist has appeared in the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennial for Architecture (2000); the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Venice Biennial 2007, and the Miami/Art Basel fair of 2007. Miller has published Rhythm Science and Sound Unbound, by MIT Press.

Joining Spooky in his live presentation, Melbourne’s own Silo Quartet with guest violist Helen Ireland.

Silo String Quartet was founded by Cellist and Composer Caerwen Martin in 1998. Silo has performed regularly at the Melbourne International Jazz Festivals and Melbourne International Women in Jazz Festivals since 1999 working with such artists as Fiona Burnett, Belinda Moody, Antonio Tenace, David Chisholm and Quinsin Nachoff (Canada) and was the resident string quartet for the Federation Music Week International Composers Forum.

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