ANNE WALTON

per:former

Anne works site-specifically with human-scale video projection and live presence to create a dialogue between past and present. per: former is a 15 minute long, temporally layered video performance operating as a wry observation on some of the conventions and apparatus of theatre and theatrical events. Its terrain is the in-between time of the interval or scene-change - a play with/in the peripheral territory of props, rigs, lighting, screens, technical equipment, technicians, other performers and, of course, the pressure of time.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born: Melbourne 1955
Resides: Perth

Anne graduated with Honours in Visual Art from the University of SA in 1997 and then went on to do an MFA at Glasgow School of Art (1999/2000) with the support of an Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. Overseas, she has presented her works at Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art (1999/2000), Amorph!99 Live Art Festival in Helsinki, Finland (1999), Sydney ! Vienna ! in Vienna, Austria (2000), ISEA2002 in Nagoya, Japan, ISEA2004 in Tallinn, Estonia and Titanik Gallery in Turku, Finland (2004).

Nationally, her live video performance works, video installations and screen works have been presented at the Adelaide SALA Festivals (2001/2002), Adelaide Fringe Festival 2002, Edith Cowan University's spECtrUm Project Space (Perth 2002), the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA, 2002), the Artrage Festival (Perth, 2002), the Festival of Darwin (2003), the Alice Springs Festival (2003) and This Is Not Art Festival (Newcastle, 2003).

Anne has also undertaken a number of residencies including: SquatSpace, Sydney (2001), Perth Central Metropolitan TAFE (2002), Geraldton Regional Art Gallery (2002), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) (2003), Sydney Performance Space (2005). In 2004 she was one of twenty artists selected to participate in the two week Time_Place_Space interdisciplinary laboratory in Adelaide . She has also worked on collaborative projects with Perth-based sound artist Cat Hope in an audio-visual duo called cAVity, including the development of an audio-visual installation called in/e/gress for the last National Review of Live Art ( Midland ) in October 2003. Since then in/e/gress has been installed at seven sites nationally and internationally and is now being considered for Experimenta's 2005 New Visions exhibition in Melbourne.