Creative Practice & Research Unit
The Creative Practice and Research Unit (CPRU) is a specialised production unit within SAM that supports teaching and practice-led research across a diverse range of disciplines. We also manage the School's performance venues, rehearsal spaces, dance studios and technical resources.
Besides presenting a rich array of student work, the Io Myers Studio regularly has showings by resident artists, peek previews of creative developments for many shows that hit venues such as the Sydney Opera House and Performance Space and much much more! So make the most of it, as a creator, scholar, researcher, performer or spectator!
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Contact us at cpru@unsw.edu.au or visit us on Facebook. For more information on the assistance the CPRU can offer, visit the Contact page here.
2012 Resident Dance Artists
Ghenoa Gela
26 Mar – 18 Apr
Ghenoa Gela, determined to make her own imprint, is challenging her very self. Songs, dances, language, culture! What cultural protocols are embedded within her Torres Strait culture?
Ghenoa is researching the boundaries of her traditional Torres Strait dancing, hoping to break down the line between traditional Torres Strait Islander dancing and contemporary movement to create her own unique movement vocabulary.
Ghenoa Gela is no longer able to do her dance residency. She is undertaking a year-long performance employment opportunity. Hopefully we will have an opportunity to work with her in future. We are still finalising details for the replacement artist/s for the second UNSW Dance Research Residency this year.
Jason Pitt
2 – 27 Jul
Using data collected from his recent field research, Jason is focusing on the invisibility of rural and remote communities and the way in which this loss of visibility can lead to displacement and a collapse of self, as well as being a source of aggression and trauma.
Resident Artists part of the Performance Space Partnership
Julie-Anne Long & Martin del Amo: The Night Is Young And We Are Not
Areas of investigation include (i) the interplay between physical comedy and dance and (ii) the integration of scripted monologues and dialogues with improvised repartee.
Applespiel
Applespiel make a band and take on the recording industry. Sitting somewhere between fact and fiction, Applespiel crack open the myth-making processes of musical stardom.
John Douglas: Body Fluid II
Researching ways of communicating treatment and symptoms via aesthetic practice to a wider audience including those who suffer long-term illness.
Visiting Fellow
William Yang
The Sydney artist and photographer who made social documentary an art form has taken up a visiting fellowship at UNSW. William Yang, internationally renowned for his performances that combine photography with personal monologues, will be based in the School of the Arts and Media (SAM) until 2012.
The third-generation Chinese Australian has used photography to explore numerous subjects, including his cultural heritage, Sydney’s gay community and creative milieu in the 1970s and 80s, and his friendships with author Patrick White and Sydney artists Martin Sharp and Brett Whiteley.
Yang will use the fellowship to digitise and transform seven of his existing performances into a small screen format, to open them up to new audiences. The pieces include: Sadness (1992), Friends of Dorothy (1998), Blood Links (1999), Shadows (2002), Objects For Meditation (2005), China (2007), and My Generation (2008)
For more information on previous Research & Residencies, click here.
