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| Bron Belcher and Harriet Gillies |
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| Bron Belcher on the set of Asian Male 60s Lead, a Tough Crowd production, 2023 |
Bron Belcher is the Director of Schoolhouse Studios, an artist-led space for creatives and the local community in Melbourne. She has ten years of experience leading experimental and contemporary practice in Australia’s preeminent arts festivals and organisations. She has held integral roles at organisations such as RISING, Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio, Next Wave Festival, Dark Mofo, and Brisbane Festival, working across Australia and internationally. Bron is also the co-founder of film and television production company, Tough Crowd, currently with a children's feature film in development and hosts a podcast about Australian film.
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| Harriet Gillies, 8/8/8:WORK, Rising Festival, 2022 |
Harriet Gillies is an award-winning performance artist and writer/director, whose work spans digital, durational, participatory, visual, immersive, new writing and hybrid text forms of contemporary performance. She worked with Robert Wilson at the Watermill Centre and Marina Abramović at Kaldor Public Art Projects. She's presented works in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and North America. Residencies include La Serre: Arts Vivants in Montreal, Bearded Tit in Sydney, the Cad Factory in Narrandera. Harriet makes risky work in an increasingly risk-averse environment by embracing complex and paradoxical ideas. Her creative process allows audiences to contemplate the way that technology shapes contemporary psychology.
"During our residency at Gunyah we are looking forward to being immersed in nature, deepening our collaborations and supporting each other's practices. We will be dramaturg and creative collaborator for each other..."
During their residency, Bron plans to develop a performance art project developed from her road trip through the Nullarbor: "Driving solo through the Nullarbor was life changing. By design, I had no one to talk to so began writing to express the many thoughts and feelings that came up on this journey. I know have 50 pages of dense, eclectic and charged writing I want to transform into performance."
Harriet plans to work on a short film storyboard about deep time: "My short film, I Want to See the Altars, is about a CEO who wakes up one day with an unshakeable drive to build altars out of everything around them to celebrate the beauty of the world. This drive threatens everything they have built for themselves, but sees them happier than ever before."
