APAM'S ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

MEET THE ARTISTS

Darren O’Donnell (CAN)

Darren O’Donnell is an urban cultural planner, novelist, essayist, playwright, director, designer and performer.  He holds a BFA in theatre, a M.Sc. in urban planning and studied traditional Chinese and western medicine at the Shiatsu School of Canada’s professional training program. He is the founder and Artistic and Research Director of Mammalian Diving Reflex. His books include Social Acupuncture (2006), which argues for aesthetics of civic engagement, and Your Secrets Sleep with Me (2004), a novel about difference, love and the miraculous.

/PARTICIPATION

• Welcoming Words Keynote Event
• Talking Heads Panel Series: Utopia and the Institution: Socially Engaged Art Practices in the 21st Century

Lenine Bourke (AUS)

Lenine Bourke (BA Hons, B.Ed) has a broad range of professional experience in the arts and cultural sector, nationally and internationally, leading various organisations and projects. In 2014 she was awarded a fellowship exploring community engaged arts practices and the intersection with socially engaged arts practices. Her work as an artist, programmer, producer and facilitator has always focused on co-creating new work with diverse people and artists, exploring new ideas about how we can live differently.

/PARTICIPATION

• Talking Heads Panel Series: Utopia and the Institution: Socially Engaged Art Practices in the 21st Century
• Host of APAM’s Young Delegation 

Nathan Stoneham (AUS)

From Seoul to Nukualofa, Brisbane to Bagot to Ulaanbaatar, Nathan Stoneham explores transcultural and queer ways of working, where friendship becomes art's process, product and legacy. The co-creator of The 떡볶이 Box (The Dokboki Box), 지하 Undergroundand Nothing To See Here 볼것이없다,Nathan was the first artist in residence at Mongolia’s only LGBT Human Rights Centre. He is an associate artist with Imaginary Theatreand has been a lead artist on Lenine Bourke’s The Walking Neighbourhood in Brisbane, Darwin, Chiang Mai and Seoul.

/PARTICIPATION

• The 떡볶이Box (The Dokboki Box) Activation at the Korea Function
• Nothing To See Here 볼것이없다,Foyer of Brisbane Powerhouse
• Host of APAM’s Young Delegation 

APAM's Young Delegation

In 2016, the team at APAM in partnership with Artist in Residence Lenine Bourke (The Walking Neighbourhood, APAM 2014), have invited a delegation of extra special people to the event. We are pleased to introduce to you APAM’s YOUNG DELEGATION, a cohort of local artistic connoisseurs aged between and 8 and 13 years old, ready to activate the market with their expertise.

A note from Lenine:
“Artists who create work for intergenerational audiences need intergenerational audiences during APAM. As an artist who showcased a full work with young people in the 2014 APAM, we noted how unusual it was not to have the general public mixed in with our APAM delegate audience.

Even the young folks commented how “weird” it was. The flow was different. APAM delegates were on a tight schedule and were there with a specific lens that they saw each show through, making the audience’s experience very removed from its intended outcome. Having a portion of the audience being young people, the demographic for which it was designed, will make it better for everyone. Better for the performers who are familiar with the energy of a young audience; and better for the APAM delegates as they get to see how the work actually resonates with the intended audience. Over Tuesday and Thursday a group of young people who were either in APAM 2014 or connected to the group will be hanging out during APAM as part of our Young Delegates program.

Come and meet them in the audience, catch them in the Sofitel foyer at their own booth, maybe on a bus if we can get a good playlist working or after a showcase to seek their feedback. We hope to develop this idea of engaging intended audiences for showcases to really support the artists and build a great connection with young audiences of Brisbane.”