HELLEN SKY

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website: www.companyinspace.com

Project Involvement

Hellen Sky is co-director of Company in Space and was a Visiting Fellow at SIAL for the Skins of Intimate Distance: Liveness and Affect week held in August 2003.

Her practice has evolved through performance and image-making that has been extended through new technologies. She collaborates with composers, performers, scientists, academics, designers, writers, architects, interface programmers to develop scores and systems which consider movement to effect and alter the relationship between multiple media into total choreographies for performative events linking virtual and physical terrains to the general public. She is both a Fellow of the Australia Council Dance Fund, 2004 – 2006, and nominee of the inaugural 2005 Leonardo Global Crossings Award.

Previous works, such as Escape Velocity (a live and telematic movement-driven performance), Data Dancing (London), Downloading Downunder (Amsterdam), SIGGRAPH (Florida), MDDF2 (Monaco) and Digital Now (Hong Kong), have posed the question: where do flesh, fragile bone, senses and perceptions fit into the new geographies of the late 20th century?

More recent work such as CO 3, performed in Interact Asia Pacific Multi Media Festival (Melbourne), Future Physical ICA (London) and Arnolfini (Bristol) explored concepts of presence, and identity within virtual reality. The Light Room, a new-media movement opera, was performed at the Melbourne Museum as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2001 and 2002. This performance engaged with physical and virtual architectural worlds as a metaphor for life bridging the cusp of 20th and 21st centuries.

A new work in development for 2005—2006, The Darker Edge of Night, asks questions of time and origin, perceived from the emergent new horizons of the mid-21st century.