Steve Langton and Donna Miller are Hubbub, a community music group that designs and builds experimental musical instruments, primarily made from recycled materials.  Hosted by the Haja Centre, an alternative youth arts factory in Seoul, they conducted workshops in instrument making, body percussion and gumboot dance. The workshops revolved around building and performing on the Sound Playground, a collection of tuned percussion instruments made from plastic, metal, wood and recycled materials. After successful performances with the Haja troupe, the Sound Playground has been left as an ongoing and permanent music resource for the centre. The Department of Education and Culture have offered to tour the new Haja troupe to schools in the 12 provinces of Korea as an example of partnership projects.

Funded by Australia-Korea Foundation and Arts Queensland.

Stage designer Alison Ross has designed for many Queensland companies including for drama, ballet, circus, visual and physical theatre; and outdoor, site-specific work.  Ross' residency with LATT Children's Theatre, Seoul, on their production The Little Dragon combined her love of visual theatre, and her prop-making and teaching skills.  Her residency, also hosted by Yongin University, included a mentorship with senior designer Taesup Lee, assisting and observing him as stage designer and lecturer in performance design.  Since her residency Ross has been asked to work as the designer with a number of LATT's artists on a production for the World AIDS Day Festival in 2006 in Tanzania.  

Funded by Arts Queensland and the Australia-Korea Foundation.

Since graduating from the Queensland Conservatorium, composer and digital media artist Leah Barclay has performed, published and produced commissioned works across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe and India. She has studied with a range of international artists and been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the inaugural Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Scholarship. In residence at Art Centre Nabi, in Seoul, Barclay will draw on experience gained from working on projects that span film and theatre, interactive installations, live electronics and multi-platform production, to create a series of hybrid intercultural performances that can be diffused via broadband networks.

Supported by Arts Queensland and The Australia Council. 

Margie Medlin is a freelance lighting designer, projection designer and film maker.  She has created lighting and projection work for Chambermade Opera, Arena Theatre, desoxy theatre, The Contemporary Music Events Company and the National Gallery of Victoria. During her time in Korea, Margie split her residency between the Seoul Arts Centre and Kuali Works, Malaysia.

Funded by the Australia Korea Foundation and the Australia Council.

Natalie Cursio is an independent choreographer, creating live performance work but also exploring dance in the context of public space, film, photography and fashion.  Cursio worked as assistant director on the company Not Yet It's Difficult's cross cultural, bilingual version of K, as part of the Seoul Performing Arts Festival. In Korea she worked with three diverse Korean performing arts companies: Theatre Nottle, Doo Dance Theatre and Dance Theatre CcadoO. Collaborating with the Artistic Directors, she created new dance works, performed with the companies, led workshops, gave talks on Australian dance, and filmed material for a dance video/documentary.  Cursio was invited to choreograph a new short work entitled Anonymous for Dance Theatre CcadoO, which is now a part of the company's repertoire.

Funded by Arts Victoria and the Australia-Korea Foundation.

Simon Barker is a drummer, percussionist and composer who has toured throughout East Asia over the last ten years. In 1999, Barker organised a concert in Seoul featuring Korean master drummer, Kim Dae Hwan. His residency in Korea enabled him to continue to work with Kim Dae Hwan to create an “Australia Stage” at the Muju, Chegu Do and Phoenix Park jazz festivals. He also worked to create an ensemble dedicated to performing new music by Australian and Korean contemporary artists and on developing an event showcasing Korean and Australian jazz musicians. During the residency Barker also conducted many workshops and became a member of two ensembles that performing around South Korea.

Funded by the Australia Korea Foundation and the Australia Council.

As a director, producer and (primarily) as a performer Todd MacDonald has worked across a number of different media including theatre, film, television and dance. MacDonald is the co-founder of The Store Room Theatre Workshop and is a company member of the company not yet it's difficult (NYID). The residency will allow him to witness the genesis of original work, universal in character but borne from a rich mix of traditional arts and contemporary practice. MacDonald was hosted by the Wuturi Players, a company dedicated to creating new forms of traditional theatre, and while there he gained an understanding of how they generate and structure their working process.

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council.

Chris Murphy is a Sydney based performance practitioner who has worked as a performer/devisor with a number of theatre companies including REM Theatre, Theatre Kantanka, Salamanca Theatre Company and Legs on the Wall. She was a core member of REM Theatre, performing, writing and co-directing new works with the company. Murphy spent three months in Korea creating and performing Frozen Girl, a collaboration between REM Theatre and Sadari Theatre in Seoul. Murphy also worked with theatre students at Yong-In University, Seoul, teaching and developing a new performance work, Chang Mun An Ui Do Shi (The City In The Window), and also attended classes at the National Centre for Korean Traditional Performing Arts.

Funded by the Australia Korea Foundation and the Australia Council.

At the time of his residency at the Seoul Arts Centre in 1997, Roger Rynd was the artistic director of REM Theatre which specialised in working in cross-cultural and cross-artform methods.  Rynd’s residency in Korea was with the Seoul Arts Centre where he worked with the Sadari Theatre, Korea’s pre-eminent company producing work for young people.  Together they created Chingdomari which received the 1997 ASSITEJ award for Best Play, Best Male Actor, Best Design for Korea and the 1998 Seoul Audience Award for Best Play. The play is in repertoire in Korea and it is hoped that Sadari and REM may bring the production to Australia.  Rynd’s experience during the residency enabled him to move to Korea to take up the position of Artistic Director, LATT Children’s Theatre in Seoul.

Funded by the Australia Council and the NSW Ministry for the Arts.

OBITUARY

Over the past 25 years, Robbie Avenaim has been recognised in Australia and internationally as a significant and highly innovative music and sound artist. Avenaim is also a founder and co-organiser of the What Is Music? Festival, Australia's largest showcase of local and international experimental music. Avenaim has worked with a wide range of international musicians including John Zorn, and Tesuya Yoshida. His residency will be at experimental music publisher and sound event organiser Balloon and Needle, Korea, where Avenaim will work on collaborative compositional projects, a touring survey exhibition, give artists talks and perform with leading Korean sound artists.

Supported by the Australia Council.

Martin Kwasner has worked as a dancer, choreographer and teacher with dance companies, teaching institutions and independent dance artists including 2 Dance Plus, Danceworks, Dance Compass, Didi Koi and the Victorian Arts Centre’s Winter Arts Program. He has taught students from preparatory to tertiary standards as well as professional dancers and adults of all levels of experience. During his residency in Korea Kwasner worked with dancers, choreographers and students in a Visiting Professor role at the School of Dance, Korean National University of the Arts. He has been invited to return to work with the School in 2001, prior to which he will be involved in a dance exchange in Osaka through Keiko Aoki’s Global Japan Network.

Funded by the Australia Council and the Australia Korea Foundation.

Gai Bryant is a saxophonist from Sydney. With her own quartet she has undertaken three successful tours of Asia between 1996-98, performing original contemporary jazz compositions and playing with local musicians in Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. During her residency, Bryant worked with Jang-Hyun Won, an acclaimed Master of Taegum (transverse flute) and composed seven pieces incorporating Taegum, traditional percussion and song forms with jazz quartet and harmony. These pieces were performed in Korea and Sydney.

Funded by the Australia-Korea Foundation and the Australia Council.