Project Seed
What is Project Seed?
Project Seed, established in 2021, is a Red Hot Arts Central funding initiative open to any artist, individual or group, offering $10,000 to allow experimentation and development of a new work or project, that is to be delivered as part of the 2024 Desert Festival program.
From inception to presentation, Project Seed offers support to artists by providing funding and creative, technical, administrative and site expertise from Red Hot Arts Central Australia and Desert Festival staff and through other skill building possibilities, across a six month period commencing in early 2024.
Red Hot Arts’ Desert Festival celebrates local artists and the arts community, and supports community engagement, economic opportunities and visitation to Central Australia. The Desert Festival has a long and strong history of delivering an inclusive, vibrant and unique arts and cultural festival that is reflective of its home here in Mparntwe.
2024 Participants
Clown
Kate Emery
Kate is an emerging artist in the performance art of Clown. She has studied with Giovanni Fusetti (Italy), Pedro Fabio (Spain), Clare Batholomew (Aust.) Kimberly Twiner (Aust.) and Elf Lyons (UK).
Kate performed her first solo show for the 2023 Desert Festival. Road Trip Out! A mime and clown show telling of the long road trip experience South out of Mparntwe.
After successfully auditioning to become a Clown Doctor with The Humour Foundation in 2019, Kate discovered her natural stupidity was well suited to Clowning and has been actively seeking out profession development with high quality trainers.
Kate now aims to devise and develop more shows and tour them to fringe festivals and to travel overseas to study clown more intensely. Kate is drawn to the honesty, vulnerability, and simple humour of Clowning and how it reaches people of all ages.
CRISALIDA
Ashleigh Musk and Ivan Trigo miras
CRISÁLIDA is a multidisciplinary installation created by Ivan Trigo Miras and Ashleigh
Musk, which blends video, materials, objects, and sound to create a sensorial experience.
CRISÁLIDA presents an interplay between the artificial and the natural, and our human
desire to see, shift and control the future, to make predictions on our survival and forecast
what lies ahead. From water we evolved, but our evolution has stagnated while the world
continues breathing and changing around us. How will we return to the water – covered in
artificial plastics or with a renewed sense of community, care, and tenderness?
This installation is our first collaboration, and Project Seed is great springboard from
which to test, play, experiment and learn about each others art forms.
Stick Mob / Portals
Seraphina Newberry
Stick Mob creatives, Seraphina Newberry, Wendy Cowan, Declan Miller and Alyssa Mason are currently working out
how to turn the ‘portals’ from our creative works into interactive entities with a life of their own.
Through Project Seed, Stick Mob will collaborate with elders, digital artists, creatives and storytellers to develop ‘portals’ as animating entities through which reality changes.
We are interested in ‘portals’ because they shift stories from following well-worn tracks to ones where cultural and quantum science knowledge open up different worlds;
worlds that are infinitely more intriguing.
Time Tax
Betty Sweetlove
Together as a core team of collaborators, Betty Sweetlove, Jasmine Story, Miriam Nicholls and Sarah Moore, are undertaking a multidisciplinary exploration of the concepts of time. Our work will encourage audiences to question accepted western norms of time and the demand for constant productivity.
Through Project Seed, we look to develop a surreal, powerful, experimental new theatre piece, grounded in the artistic rigour of playwriting, contemporary dance, physical theatre and visual art. Our work will be an immersive, experimental performance developed via a deeply collaborative, horizontal process. We are using improv theatre exercises, physical theatre and experimental writing exercises to create poignant visual theatre moments within our creative development.
Through this we will curate a post dramatic collage of moments and interactive shapes with the audience that will form the show. We are also experimenting with inviting the audience to cross multiple thresholds within the show, so as to thoroughly invite and immerse the audience in the concepts and world of the show.
