Footscray Community Arts Centre
We acknowledge that we are on traditional lands of the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation. We offer our respect to the Elders of these traditional lands and, through them, to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Event – Performance
THE NIS
Presented by Footscray Community Arts Centre and JOLT Arts
TIME AND PLACE
- Wednesday 4 – Saturday 7 March
- Wed-Sat 8pm and Sat 3pm
- fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Street level access to the venue is via Spark Lane, off Flinders street. This is a drop off area only and parking can be found in nearby Flinders Street
Cost
- $25 full
$15 conc
$12 companion card
BOOKINGS
Phone 9662 9966, visit http://www.fortyfivedownstairs.com or at the door
Director: James Hullick
“The spectators could appreciate yet again the benefits of instant communication to be found in such a music making blend of the prepared and the improvised.”
Clive O’Connell, The Age 2007
“Showed us all how to listen.”
Penny Webb, The Age 2007
Following their hugely successful shows Cranky Robotics and Shimmersong in 2007 and their recent involvement in The Dark Luminance Project’s WIGGA in 2008, Footscray Arts’ own Amplified Elephants has one again joined forces with director James Hullick and JOLT Arts. Together they have created the unique multimedia experience –
THE
NIS.
THE
NIS features sonic performances by The Amplified Elephants together with the BOLT Ensemble framed by interactive screen projections, animations, robotic machines and stage movement by artists from Footscray Arts’s Integrate Stretch workshops.
The word NIS has been made up by The Amplified Elephants’ sound artist, Katherine. It has no meaning and sums up the core of this exciting show, which is about exploring those experiences in life that cannot be explained. Interactive sequences and improvisation ensure that certain passages in the show will never be exactly the same in any two performances. These varying sections are meshed with notated and fixed sonic and visual sequences, creating an intriguing blend of the indeterminate and the determinate in a multimedia feast for the senses.
Intrinsic to the heart of this show is its embracing artists of varying abilities. And the goal is to provide an experience that is beyond being about ability instead focussing in on making quality art that has social integrity.
The Amplified Elephants is an ensemble for sound artists with and without a disability. Formed in 2006, the group was developed by JOLT artistic director and sound art tutor James Hullick and Footscray Community Arts Centre, as part of Footscray Arts’ ArtLife Program. The Amplified Elephants are dedicated to pursuing professional sonic outcomes that explore the wonders and delights of the sonic world and to finding new and challenging ways to share the discovery of the experience of sound.
The BOLT Ensemble is a music and sound art ensemble dedicated to presenting projects artistically directed by James Hullick. Formed in 2004, the group works with techniques and ideas that exist outside mainstream music practices and combines traditional music instruments with technology.
Footscray Community Arts Centre presented JOLT’s first collaboration with The Amplified Elephants in 2007 and as such mentored JOLT in its early development as an arts organisation. Cranky Robotics was JOLT‘s first public presentation, but since then this not for profit artist run organisation has been involved in numerous sonic and visual arts projects, including most recently The Dark Luminance Project in New York. Aspects of that show were described by one New York critic as “totally mind-blowing.”
Download the biographies of the key creative personnel involved in THE NIS.THE_NIS_Bios.pdf
Download your copy of the event program for THE NIS here.
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