[ISEA2013] Roundtable: Sam Fox, Cat Hope, Guy Ben-Ary & Benjamin Forster – Roundtable Statement

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Roundtable: Semipermeable

  • Sam Fox is a performance maker who draws on his dance, visual theatre and writing practice to create hybrid works that entail finely crafted challenges for audiences. Sam is committed to a dual practice of facilitating creative engagement and collaborative projects in community alongside his original contemporary performance practice. Sam is the founder/director of Hydra Poesis which explores critical exchange and inquiry with audiences and is a BA Dance Graduate of WAAPA (2003). While building his own performance practice Sam has developed as a facilitator and producer of multi-arts, community based projects, festivals and research programs.
  • Cat Hope is a composer, sound artist, performer and academic. She is a classically trained flautist, self taught vocalist and experimental noise bass player with an active performance profile as a soloist and in music groups. She is the director of the internationally recognised music group Decibel and has toured internationally as a noise artist. Her installations have been show at ISEA (Japan, Tallin), Liquid Architecture, the Totally Huge New Music Festival, the Perth International Arts Festival and in Singapore, USA, Japan and Finland. Cat is currently a researcher at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University.
  • Guy Ben-Ary is an artist and researcher based at SymbioticA, an artistic laboratory dedicated to research, learning and hands-on engagement with the life sciences, located within the University of Western Australia. Recognised internationally as a major artist and innovator working across science and media arts, Ben-Ary specialises in biotechnological artwork, which aims to enrich our understanding of what it means to be alive.
  • Benjamin Forster (born 1985 Canberra, Australia, lives in Perth) utilises drawing, digital and biological technologies, installation and print in order to trace the boundaries of logic, the function of economy and the role of the artist in art making. Forster’s recent solo exhibitions have been A Luminary Series of Records Played in Parallel, Perth Cultural Centre with Sohan Ariel Hayes (2012) and Rational, CCAS Manuka, Canberra (2010). Forster has also participated in the group exhibitions, NEW13, ACCA, Melbourne (2013), Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2012); Spatial Drawing, VENN Gallery, Perth (2012); and How to talk to a mountain, Paper Mountain, Perth (2012).