New media performance
Pack your suitcase and come fly with us.
At the last Next Wave Festival spat+loogie indulged your consumer desires at the hyper-real supermarket NEW!shop. Their interactive installation was a hit with more than 800 satisfied shoppers. Now it’s time to travel with spat+loogie on holiday. Swim in the natural video spring and sip from a tropical cocktail of performance, intimate cinema, sensory overload and explosive experiences. This is tacky tourism at its very worst.
Blow your nose, clean your ears, scrub your skin and prepare for a sensory adventure without leaving the comfort of your seat. Friendly flight attendants will ensure your trip is comfortable and will assist you to visit all corners of the globe, collecting souvenirs, sunburns and breathtaking scenery each step of the way. This deeply intimate experience uses touch, smell and video goggles to create a tongue-in-cheek virtual holiday. All passengers must arrive five minutes before take-off to allow for check in, security checks, fingerprinting and passport inspection.
Presented by spat+loogie.
Artist/s:
spat+loogie: Kat Barron, Naomi Derrick, Teik Kim Pok, Lara Thoms
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About the artist/s:
spat+loogie (Kat Barron and Lara Thoms) is made up of a Sydney based duo who have been making projects together for last five years. These have included a fake supermarket for their project new!shop, and 3D lenticulars that investigated the relationship between Google and the future.
They like to play with new media, video and performance art, and create untraditional audience interactions in unusual spaces. They have been artists in residence at Firstdraft Gallery, The Performance Space and will soon be in Raumas, Finland.
Lara Thoms is one half of spat+loogie and gets excited by collaboration, interdisciplinary and interventionist art. Outside of projects with spat+loogie, she is a video artist, curator and agitator. She co-ordinates Nightime, a short works night at The Performance Space, and is a member of the Quarterbred collective offering opportunities to artists across all disciplines. She recently received a SPARK mentorship and Runway grant to undertake a residency in Finland.
Kat Barron is one half of spat+loogie, and is interested in making interactive, cross media and socially dialogical art. She is also a freelance designer, photographer and all round techie.
Kat plays in a punk band, experiments with 3D image making, and is a co-founder of the chooch-a-bahn, a collective organising monthly all-ages underground music events. Kat is currently completing her Donours degree in Media Arts at UTS. and is curating a show called The Science Fair as part of First Draft Gallery’s emerging curators program. She recently received a Runway grant for a residency at Raumars in Finland, and to attend the ArsElectronica Festival.
Naomi Derrick is a Sydney based artist and amateur scientist who works as an arts co-coordinator, costume designer and curator. Naomi is one half of artistic duo Poss and the Frank as well as frequently collaborating with artists spat+loogie, having toured to several cities with their performance new!shop.
Naomi is also a member of the Quarterbred, an artist run initiative who co-ordinate and run week long festivals at PACT Youth Theatre. Naomi has been employed by PACT Youth Theatre to work on Gathering Ground and curate and the Haunted House night for Erskineville festival.
Teik-Kim Pok is a Malaysian-born, Singapore-bred and Sydney-based performer whose work looks at the transgression of existing constructions of identity within popular culture. Teik-Kim has trained with Urban Theatre Projects, PACT Youth Theatre and Singapore Repertory Theatre in addition to a Performance Studies Honours degree at UNSW. His practice now traverses theatre, dance, and digital media.
Teik-Kim recently returned from Guillermo Gomez-Pena’s La Pocha Nostra Summer School, funded by an Australia Council Runway grant. He has twice been a participant in Time-Place-Space, was part of the 2005 SPARK mentorship program and has taken part in numerous performance collaborations.
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More information:
Tickets are limited to 12 audience members per show, so book now and get on board—before we crash. Advanced booking is essential. Tickets will be on sale at the venue only upon availability.
SPARK is the Australia Council’s national mentoring program for young artists supported by the Dance, Theatre, Community Partnerships and Inter-Arts sections. It is managed by Youth Arts Queensland and is part of the Australian Government’s Young and Emerging Artists Initiative.
The project was developed and supported by Next Wave Kickstart.
Partnered by FULL TILT at the Arts Centre.
[ Project website: www.spatnloogie.com ]
