2024 - Grant Round Two

JESSICA LESOSKY

Permission Granted is an innovative and multidisciplinary project designed to delve into the interconnected realms of pleasure, laughter, power, social conditioning, and the reclamation of body and self. The project seeks to challenge societal assumptions and habits, examining the beliefs and behaviours shaped by social conditioning, challenging conventional narratives and fostering a deeper understanding of personal and collective experiences.

LIBBY BROCKMAN

“Lights, Camera, Seance!” will be set in the 1940s, where Vue Grand will become the set of a, seemingly cursed, film set currently filming a ghost story - as night falls and the cameras roll, life begins to eerily imitate art.

ZOEE MARSH

Playground is a mixed media community activation involving movement and audio. The final outcome of Playground is to highlight the growth of Geelong whilst encouraging community involvement and connection; and reigniting the artistic energy within.

CREATIVE OCCUPATION COLLECTIVE

Shiprite enacts the transformation of a shipwreck site by inverting the gestures of human extraction, removal and wreckage through a rite of renewal and accumulation.

CULTURA

The Youth Council establishment will address many existing challenges within our communities and will become the platform where we can build capacity of our future community leaders who value harmony between multicultural communities while preserving the richness of their own cultures.

SAMANTHA LESTER

Inspired by the concept of sculpting clay that continually transforms into milk, slipping through the artist's fingers, this performance explores themes of impermanence, frustration, and the ephemerality of creation. Performed by a solo female dancer, Milk also serves as a poignant commentary on female labour and the disparities in the amount of labour performed by women compared to men.

MELINDA CHAPMAN

SWARM is a full-length play featuring live performance and augmented reality, in development for 2025. Satirical and speculative, Swarm explores the potential impacts of AI and transhumanism on social dynamics.

XAVIER MCGETTIGAN

Swing Lake is an adaptation of Swan Lake, re-imagined into the swing era of the early 20th centruy. Tchaikovsky's iconic score rearranged to swinging big band jazz (think Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Benny Goodman), ballet swapped out for jazz dance, tutus and tights replaced by pinstripe suits.

JOSH MITCHELL

Fosterville by Josh Mitchell explores choreographic practice and music composition being entirely co-dependent. Movement patterns are recorded and become the percussive elements of the music. They separately play with the tempo of the choreography and the music, each always informing the other. Improvisation exercises are set to fragments of music and then mined to develop themes and verbal feedback that become lyrics. These lyrics then become verbal scores used to develop choreography. We keep iterating back and forth until we come up with the ‘final’ song/choreography.