Hydra Poesis

01/08/2016

After more than 18months of collaborative work, experimentation and digital broadcasts with an incredible range of artists and our partner DADAA inc, the Digital Dialogues project is wrapped up. Check out an almost complete channel of broadcasts from the 2 year period.

Huge thanks to Hydra Poesis associate Laura Boynes for taking the lead on the second half of the project, and to all the artists, mentors and the DADAA team. (see the impressive list at the link)

pic features: Sam Kerr and Sam Fox, photo: Simone Flavelle

Over the last 18 months Hydra Poesis has hosted artists exploring what the internet means for performance for them. In partnership with DADAA inc (Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts Australia) a massive range of experimental broadcasts, artworks, performances and documents were created...

09/10/2015

A long time between updates and lots to update on. Firstly, Hydra Poesis has partnered DADAA inc this year to host 10 residencies for artists over 40 weeks in our studio that has been refitted as an performance broadcast studio. The 'Digital Dialogues' project supports artists with intellectual disabilities to create work for internet audiences and you can check out new work by joining the StARTspeak page where the project is being hosted alongside a range of new works. https://www.facebook.com/startspeakproject

http://hydrapoesis.net/digital-dialogues-collaborative-partnership/
http://www.startspeak.org/projects/digital-dialogues/

Hydra Poesis and DADAA inc have partnered in a 40 week collaboration during 2015 supporting artists with intellectual disabilities to make performance and digital art for internet audiences.

07/03/2015

The Network of Ensemble Theaters recently published Sam Fox's and my thoughts on remote collaboration, including a lesson plan for a workshop on interdisciplinary collaboration using everyday recording devices. Have a look!
"This is a critical moment in the culture, in the life and development of the internet, virtual embodiment, and the aforementioned ubiquity of handheld devices and webcams as a cultural phenomenon. [...] remote online collaboration following open source principles inherently challenge artistic authorship, even suggesting the destruction of the innate value of the material. Employing a “commons” ethos, we might treat our works with less reverence, and give over the rights to (conditionally) over-author our works, as a function of the possibility for decentralization of the collaboration structure." -AW & SF, 2014

Allison Wyper (Los Angeles, CA) and Sam Fox, Director of Hydra Poesis (Australia), met in person for the first time at Hydra’s Perth studios to share their movement, media, and activist performance practices and formalize strategies for remote collaboration. The exchange took place over a week-long…

19/12/2014

little post about Didactic Tools lab & workshop. Thanks to all our artists & peers who contributed and supported!

http://hydrapoesis.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/DTs2.jpg

21/11/2014

Continuing with updates, back in July-August we collaborated with DADAA inc and Inkubator on a digital studio for artists with intellectual disabilities to perform on the internet within. There was some incredibly experimental work performed and more of this is in the pipeline.

ROOM Broadcasts Lonesome Baby Magic! August 27, 2014 On August 26 ROOM tested broadcast with Erol Hubbihoca’s work, ‘Lonesome Baby Magic’. Running under 20 minutes with a break for set and costume change, Erol developed this work out of dance and improvisation sessions where he referenced popular cu…

21/11/2014

Despite the radio silence, Hydra Poesis has had quite a bit on of late and lots of work begins this week. Last month Sibling Rivers premiered at the MS:T performative art festival, Calgary. This week Liberty In The Dark plays again as part of Private Dances in Hong Kong, and we are hosting very wonderful artists at our studios to begin exploration of Didactic Tools and then running an intensive peer workshop! Links below for the curios.
http://hydrapoesis.net/sibling-rivers-mst-performative-art-festival/
http://hydrapoesis.net/private-dances-hong-kong/
http://hydrapoesis.net/didactic-tools-lab-workshop/

03/10/2014

This Sunday in Calgary, Canada - a collaboration between Allison Wyper, Sam Fox and Terrance Houle, and featuring Perth performance artists Sete Tele and Ella Rose Trew in video premiere's at the MS:T Festival. This performance builds on Allison's residency at Hydra studios in August and investigations in internet/long-distance collaborative exchange.

The Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival (M:ST) is a biennial festival that celebrates innovative and critically engaged performative art in the Southern Alberta region.

25/09/2014

CALLOUT for artist participation in the DIDACTIC TOOLS WORKSHOP

Hydra Poesis and CIA Studios are inviting applications for artists to participate in the DIDACTIC TOOLS workshop - a cross-disciplinary project between five national and international artists investigating knowledge culture in contemporary society.

Join the core group of international and national artists for discussions around knowledge transference, learning and instructional culture, and respond to the concepts through experimentation with original and shared work.

Applications due: Friday 10th October 2014
Workshop runs Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th November 2014.

Full information and application details - http://didactictools.net

Workshop Callout ~ 2014-09-23 CALLOUT for artist participation in the DIDACTIC TOOLS workshop presented by Hydra Poesis and CIA Studios Keg de Souza – Gonflables et amuse-bouche– – – – – – – – – – THE PROJECT Hydra Poesis is currently undertaking DIDACTIC TOOLS – a cross-disciplinary project involvi…

28/07/2014

The script for PROMPTER has been shortlisted for the Premier's Book Awards.

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10/07/2014

Long time Hydra core artist and incredible choreographer Rachel Arianne is premiering exquisite work 'precipice' in August. Like her page to support precarious new dance from Perth...

Rachel Arianne is a dance artist who creates immersive performance experiences through the physicali

11/05/2014

new work being made for M:ST performative art festival (Canada) with Allison Wyper and Terrance Houle this year, builds on work from last year's Hemi GS1 performance.

Sam Fox (Hydra, Perth), Allison Wyper (Los Angeles) and Terrance Houle (Blood Tribe, Calgary) are in the process of making a new performance of Sibling Rivers for the M:ST - Mountain Standard Time – performative art festival ( Sept 14, Calgary).

11/05/2014

Catch up from earlier this year, we used dance to declare the space free from Tony Abbott's authority... via The Album project

The Problem of Sangfroid* in the Age of Capitalist Decline and Global Warming as Expressed Through a Contemporary Remix of The Musical ‘West Side Story’ that Draws a Direct Link between the Quintessential Nature of American ‘Cool’ with the Melting of Ice Caps and Ecological Breakdown all of which Co…