Moving Ideas

MOVING IDEAS 2025

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ANNOUNCING THE MOVING IDEAS RESIDENCIES
 
We are delighted to announce the Moving Ideas residents for 2025:
 
Ivey Wawn

Angela Goh

Angela Goh's Moving Ideas Residency. This takes place at The Drill Hall through a Critical Path Space Grant and we thank Critical Path immensely for allowing this time sensitive residency to occur.

Angela will expand her 2024 solo work 'Total' through teaching it to dancer and artist Chloe Chignell. In this process of transmission details around the work come into view through articulation and calibration of sensation, image, imagination and form across bodies, as well as highlighting affinities between the two artists' practices, processes and approaches to choreography. 'Total' premiered at the end of 2024 at the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, and the Leeum Museum in Seoul for Ob/scene Festival. In April, the work will be presented again at the Triennial, where Chloe will perform the work. As well as learning and rehearsing the work in preparation for this, Angela and Chloe are also beginning to use this solo material to develop a basis for material to emerge for a new duet.

Angela Goh is a dancer and choreographer. Her work is presented in contemporary art contexts and traditional performance spaces, creating oblique relations between bodies and the structural power relations of institutional spaces. Her work investigates the too obvious and the really weird, pressing at the dynamics between embodied space and the politics of representation. Recently her work has been presented at a range of institutional venues including Haus der Kunst, Munich, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Performance Space New York, and Taipei Performing Arts Center. She was awarded the Keir Choreographic Award in 2020, a Green Room Award for Most Outstanding Creation in 2023, the Create NSW Performing Arts Fellowship in 2019, and the inaugural Sydney Dance Company Fellowship in 2020-21. In 2024 she will present a new work as part of the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Her work Body Loss was recently acquired for the permanent collection of the University of Melbourne’s Art Museums, making it the first ever dance work to be collected by a museum in Australia. Angela lives and works on Gadigal Land in Sydney, Australia.

Linda Luke

Chris Gurusamy

Mym Kwa & Joshua Di Mattina-Beven

We awarded a total of 5 week-long residencies for our Moving Ideas program this year, adding some additional funds to allow one extra residency. The residencies will be happening in the studio from February - April. We look forward to sharing the resident artists' work with you over the coming months.

We want to thank all artists who put in proposals for this opportunity, and to thank Victoria Hunt and Lizzie Thomson who, alongside our Creative Producer, Jane McKernan, made up the panel making decisions. 

The Moving Ideas Residency is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
 
Image Credit: Linda Luke, Happy Hour #15 by Nat Cartney

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The aim of the Moving Ideas residency program is to support NSW-based dance artists to do their creative work in a funded capacity. Artists can apply to work on a creative project, explore a new idea, or develop their practice. The residency is open to professional, emerging and established NSW-based artists working with dance, choreography and movement based practices.

 

Support:

• An artist fee of $1200 for 40-hours of studio time

• A collaborator or production budget of $300

• An allowance of $1000 for travel and accommodation is available for one regionally based

NSW artist

• Access budget allocation if required

 

Timing:

• Four 40-hour residencies are available to be undertaken from February to June 2025

• Residencies will be scheduled in consultation with ReadyMade Works staff

• ReadyMade Works will facilitate a closed showing event for invited peers and community at the culmination of residency period

 

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The Moving Ideas Residency is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

 

Image Credit: Noha Ramadan and Charlie Trier (2024 Moving Ideas Residents), taken at PACT hosts Happy Hour Plus by Nat Cartney

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