Mick Douglas presented a three-part solo durational performance work for Performance Arcade: ‘Container Walk’  2013, ‘Carriage’  2014, and ‘Return’ 2015.  He recently undertook ‘Circulations’ performance installation works in Croatia, The Bahamas, Rarotonga, Japan, Melbourne, and Manila that explored salt to activate encounters in the dynamic inter-relations of locality and globality.  Artistic director of ‘Performing Mobilities’, the Australian cluster of the Performance Studies International 2015 project ‘Fluid States’, Mick is a creative practice researcher at RMIT University Melbourne. 

 

Dance artist Amaara Raheem recently performed in Temporary Title, 2015 by Xavier Le Roy at Carriageworks, Sydney. Commissioned by Ovalhouse (London, 2013) she created Shield in response to the aboriginal bark shield housed at the British Museum. Awarded ‘23 Days at Sea’ – a travelling artist’s residency by Access Gallery – Amaara will soon cross the Pacific Ocean, from Vancouver to Shanghai, on a container cargo ship. She is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD.