Dani Cabs is an actor and physical comedian based in Brisbane, Australia. He has performed original work in numerous comedy and arts festivals, including Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Edinburgh Fringe as well as online. He has trained in various forms of clown and physical comedy/theatre with award-winning physical comedian Dr. Brown (Phillip Burgers, L.A), Anna Yen (Brisbane) and Danielle Cresp (Melbourne).

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The Sauce is a collective of Brisbane-based emerging theatre artists focused on the creation of new collaboratively devised work. First established in 2015, they have a history of creating work specifically for local audiences with a view to stimulate dialogue and understanding amongst our local community and increase social cohesion. By staging local places and experiences, they hope to increase community participation in the arts.

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Jeanette Stok is both an artist and a scientist. She is particularly interested in how repetitive actions are an integral component of the everyday, the generation of knowledge, identity and heritage. Her practice combines drawing, printing, sculpture and video and she recently completed her BFA at QCA (2016).

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Camila Duran and Nick Rees are comic book artists working on visual stories about displacement and identity, using their experiences growing up overseas to explore setting as character.

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Michelle Vine is a contemporary artist and photographer who graduated from QCA in 2016. She has travelled across Queensland and to Germany for her feminist art-science project based on German Naturalist Amalie Dietrich. Her photography has documented her own intimate performances and experimental work by a range of Brisbane artists.

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Gemma Elsom is a an artist from the Sunshine Coast, with a practice centred in performance. Combining a background in long form improv and the Meisner technique - her work calls for pure honesty from the audience as well as the actors. Gemma has developed a keen eye for producing experimental theatre and film work based in reality, specifically questioning what makes us who we are? And how do we feel about that?

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Brisbane writer and historian Hilary Davies writes Australian history books and articles, and historical fiction. She holds a PhD in history and is the author of Surveying Success, an award-winning book about life in colonial Queensland. She ‘turned Indie’ publisher in 2015, and as Isabella Hargreaves has released nine historical fiction ebooks.

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Pipí Cucú began life in 2016, as a collective that specialises in Physical and Visual Theatre. We are committed to providing access to training and performances, that are otherwise rare or unavailable within Australia. To date, these include our 2017 Clowning and Slapstick workshop with Scott Witt, held in Sydney NSW and our Cyr Wheel intensive with Dave Coombs, in Brisbane QLD.

Pipí Cucú is Elizabeth Bloomer, Jason Mckell, and Anna Straker.

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David Oberg is a Brisbane-based writer whose work has been published in The Lifted Brow and Best Australian Stories 2017.

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Anna Litwinowicz is a Brisbane based emerging artist currently undertaking a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) at QUT. She explores a wide range of mediums but focuses primarily on the combinations of video, photography, installation and performance based works. The seeds to her ideas grow from the curious nature of human beings - the way we move, think and feel, plus everything in between.

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Helen Hardess is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Art, Queensland College of Art majoring in Sculpture. Using a process-driven methodology in a spatial practice, she explores the layered and contesting social, cultural and economic responses to land, natural resources and the environment.

Jude Roberts is an artist who teaches across the mediums of drawing and print media in Brisbane and regional areas. The artesian waters of Australia are the focus of her work having lived at and experienced areas of the phenomena that is the Great Artesian Basin.

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Currently a research candidate at Queensland College of Art, Jacinta Giles’s practice merges experimental photography, montage and cinematic stills to interrogate the contemporary experience of fear. Her interests lie in exploring how the Void is manifesting itself in emergent ways within the visual language of fear and traverses’ concepts from fine art, theatre, cinema, and philosophy.

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Adele's work focuses on her relationship with God. After becoming a Christian in 2016, it became clear to her that there are very few Contemporary Christian artists. She explores what Contemporary Christian paintings look like, through her own testimony and hermeneutically studying scripture.

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Kailum Graves is an emerging artist critically obsessed with the artifactual digital object. He works predominantly in the medium of photography and within the sphere of the photographic process, including large-scale video installations. His practice reflects the influence of technology on the photographic medium and sits resolutely within the context of future movements of contemporary photography. He wrote this in the third person.

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Writer Rosie Funder joins House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to talk about uncertainty, monomaniacal bodybuilders, and the Melbourne-Brisbane divide (or lack thereof). Also Jack Vening. At the end we mention Jack Vening.

Rosie Funder is an emerging writer of creative non-fiction based in Melbourne and Brisbane. In 2015 Rosie completed her Honours at QUT, creating a body of work that explored notions of doubt and uncertainty in the essay form.

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Interdisciplinary installation artist Ellie-Lea Jansson sits down with Jonathan O'Brien to discuss art-life balance, and how lighting affects our interactions with space.

Ellie-Lea’s practice currently explores the role of objects and their power to influence personal and societal identity. Experimenting with a range of processes including text based, digital and 3D mixed-media, she is transforming her practice from trained painter to multimodal artist. Intrinsic to all of these approaches is the selection of materials and methods for their inherent relationship with the ideas being examined. Ellie-Lea works at an institutional level within the arts and has studied Visual Arts, Film and Education. She has travelled and resided in many parts of Queensland and Australia and is currently Brisbane-based. Through investigating immersive methods that are both personal and vulnerable, her practice explores a subjective and at times interactive approach to art making that references her nomadic life and makes visible the fluid and collective notion of identity. 

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Photographer extraordinaire Julia Scott Green sits down with Jonathan O'Brien to discuss the complexities of the information age, art as a historical artefact, and the different paths to 'emerging' as an artist.

Julia Scott Green is a visual artist who works with and investigates photography. She does so through commercial projects, communications education and in her personal visual arts practice. She has recently expanded into light installation inspired by her photographic work, and will be developing these ideas during her House Conspiracy residency.

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Physical theatre-maker and dancer Kristian Santic joins House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to talk about liminality, enlightenment, and how money and clinical political correctness leads to bad art.

Kristian is a Brisbane-based performance artist specialising in the forms of Contact Improvisation, Theatre, and Dance Theatre with a strong curiosity for experimental and hybrid work. His current focus on collaboration and its direct translation into work yields cacophonous, collage-like performances that are heavily influenced by the utilisation of diverse modes of expressions. These works comprise of live projection, community participation/interaction, large-scale spectacle, installation, and cinematography.

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House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien chats with altform about what it's like for a single person to become a collective.

altform is a collective of artists working together to collaboratively curate experiences. Through the development of interactive installations, immersive performances, and community oriented events, the collective’s medium is the experience, and these experiences serve as platforms for connection and critical discussion.

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Writer Ella Donald chats with House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien about real life and the internet and how they're becoming more and more the same thing.
 
Ella Donald is an arts and popular culture journalist and critic from Brisbane. Her work regularly appears in the UK-based film magazine Little White Lies in both print and online editions, and also can be seen in publications like The Guardian, Vanity Fair, SBS, Junkee, Brisbane Times, Kill Your Darlings, and Screen Education. She’s been writing professionally since she was 15, editing and co-owning the popular website FashionOfGlee.com, which was profiled by various outlets including Tumblr and received worldwide press and recognition from publications including Elle and fashion houses like Kate Spade. With backgrounds in film and television, dance, theatre, photography, and music, she has written extensively on these topics, as well as covering celebrity, popular and youth culture, social and cultural issues, technology, and fashion from both an industry and audience perspective. In 2016, she participated in the Melbourne International Film Festival Critics Campus. She is available for all your trivia team needs (for a fee, of course).
 
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House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien chats with Rachael Wellisch about living in Dubai and how the history of indigo is an illuminating touchstone for New Materialism.

Rachael Wellisch’s practice is positioned within a conceptual framework that considers humans and culture in relation to physical matter. The process of indigo dying is integral to Wellisch’s work, in which she transforms matter to objects of cultural significance. Wellisch completed Honours at the Queensland College of Art. In 2016 Wellisch received the St Andrews War Memorial Hospital Art Award.

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House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien chats with Joseph Burgess about the life of an artist on the road.

The works of Joseph Burgess concern palaeontology, the destruction of sacred sites and identity . Combining stop motion animation and time based video art with an anthroposophical sentiment The Australian Mega Fauna project aims to celebrate Australia’s natural history and the oldest culture on the planet.

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This week we bring you a cross-broadcast and introduction to a new show: Love Letters to F***bois Presents, hosted by Melina Wightman and Lia Stark, available everywhere except iTunes (though soon to be iTunes). You can also check them out here:

https://soundcloud.com/loveletterstofuckbois

In this letter, the ladies discuss their love of the ;’Mrs Robison’ character in dating. They look at the pros and cons of dating someone who thinks dial-up is just a way to booty-call someone. 

House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien chats with local writer and community radio hero Craig Garrett about juggling projects, having discipline, and the dangers (or lack of dangers) posed by modern technology.

Craig Garrett is a Brisbane-based radio and sound producer, creative writer and journalist. He’s produced documentaries for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) and 4ZZZ; he’s produced soundscape recordings for festivals; and his work is available on Soundcloud and via 4ZZZ & ZED DIGITAL (Brisbane), 3CR (Melbourne), 2SER (Sydney) and nationally via the Community Radio Network: CRN.

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The SUI Ensemble have been making provocative theatre work in Brisbane for the last 3 years. Comprised of 8ish resident members, the group work has debuted several performances in non-conventional spaces across Brisbane. Since their landmark work The Suicide Show, which toured interstate in 2015 to last year’s Anywhere Award Winning work Awful Big Adventure, SUI have strived to put audiences first.

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Currently undertaking a PhD in Griffith University, Adam’s practice incorporates masquerade performance, video, animation, projection, sound, drawing, photography and wearable art. His work intersects an eclectic array of cultural, social, religious and gendered icons through an immersive and charged ritualistic methodology which explores the ontological premise of identity.

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A broadcast of Craig Garrett's key residency project: The House Conspiracy: A Day In The Life... [A Narrative Soundscape], featuring the artists of Round 8, House Conspiracy alumni, and the character of the House itself in the evolving context of West End.

Yarn Storytelling's next event is this Friday, August 18 @ Metro Arts. Details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1374386255985593/

Tess Mehonoshen examines the contemporary phenomena of transient living and the ensuing disconnection that occurs with loss of place. Seeking to mimic and disrupt the separation between urban/rural through material ambiguity, categorisations of ‘place’ are questioned. The sculptures remain in a continual state of decay, eroding and disintegrating upon contact.

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Holly Anderson works principally with painting and drawing mediums with an emphasis on theatrical installation practice. Her strong concerns for narrative, simulation and notions of femininity are found continually in performed reconstructions of a continuing series of mythic or autobiographic events, neither of which is privileged or defined. Between a concern for the theatrical, traditional materials and immersive installation, playful interactions between her work and the viewer are warmly invited.

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April Giblin experiments with portraiture by using colours to evoke emotion to tell a story. Her art style flirts and blurs the lines between Fauvism, Colour Field, Abstraction and Portraiture. Aprils’ work carries an underlying theme about reality and the human condition. In her recent work, April is exploring gender and sexuality by documenting people and their experiences in the 21st century.

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Kaitlyn Rogers is a comedian, actor and the no.1 fan of Australian icon, Shannon Noll. Kaitlyn trained in France with master clown Philippe Gaulier. She won the London Comedy Virgins Competition and has performed comedy in London, Paris & Brisbane. Currently, Kaitlyn is developing her comedy show: Can I Get An Amen?!

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Tamara Lazaroff is an emerging writer of fiction and creative non-fiction based in Brisbane. Her work has been published, performed and broadcast in Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. She is currently working towards the completion of her short story collection, 'Walnuts, Almonds, Nuts & Other Stories'

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Sonny O’Brien is a multidisciplinary artist exploring themes of impermanence, chance, power, and emergence. He abusively merges digital and traditional mediums, producing interactive installations, film, animation, photography, print and collage. As a sound designer and musician, he received the QUT Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship in 2012 for his outstanding portfolio.

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Chloe Jane Hambleton is an emerging contemporary dance artist. Chloe recently graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance), from the Queensland University of Technology. She has performed at the Beijing Dance Festival, Anywhere Theatre Festival, and participated as a choreographer and dancer at QL2 Dance's On Course (Canberra).

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Sancintya Mohini Simpson is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who examines the complexities of racial, migratory and mixed-race experiences within Australia through painting, photography, video, performance and sound work. Her practice is informed by her heritage as a biracial First-Generation Australian of Indian-Anglo descent.

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Peter Kozak is an emerging artist whose practice focuses on representations of human fragility and vulnerability in video and video performance art.

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Aron Oroszvari is a fledgling writer who composes minimalist fantasy and surrealist short stories. He is based in Brisbane and splits his time between writing working as a check-in attendant for Sunstate Coaches.

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Rebekah Evans is Brisbane based artist working in the mediums of drawing & weaving. In 2016 Evans studied Fine Arts with Honours at QCA, creating a body of work that responds to the poetics of interconnectivity. Inspired by fluidity, Evans work explores perception and the experience of time and space, in light of living in contemporary age of the Anthropocene.

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Gwan Tung Dorothy Lau critically examines the construction of cultural and racial identity. She critiques the generalised portrayal of the East Asian culture through digital manipulated self-portrait and wearable art. Dorothy’s practice conveys the notion of perplexity developed from her peripatetic youth, providing an intimate reflection on the sentiment of displacement experienced globally and collectively.

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Amanda Wolf is a Brisbane based artist and Co-Director of the SX+ Collective. Wolf graduated from the Queensland College of Art with First Class Honours in 2013 in addition to a Diploma of Fine Art from the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE in 2005. Wolf’s exhibition history includes solo projects for Cut Thumb ARI ( Brisbane), First Draft (Sydney), Strange Neighbour (Melbourne), Sawtooth (Launceston) and The Hold (Brisbane). Wolf has also participated in group exhibitions and major arts festivals across Australia including Melbourne Fringe Festival and This Is Not Art Festival (Newcastle).

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Rebecca is the founding editor of Woolf Pack, a Brisbane-based zine publishing femme and non-binary artists. She is studying creative writing at QUT, is working on her first novel, and she wants a new pen pal and thought this would be easier than using a website.

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Rhiannon Dionysius is a Brisbane-based artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation. Her work explores representations of the body and vulnerability, and engages with themes of femininity, sexuality and appearance. Rhiannon has exhibited at various galleries around Brisbane, most notably at the Hold Artspace and with Corflute as a part of the BARI Festival in 2016. Alongside her practice, Rhiannon is passionate about supporting local artists and has been involved as the art coordinator/curator for Roving Conspiracy and Paint It Red music and art events. Rhiannon graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Queensland College of Art in 2016. 

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Lia Stark is a Brisbane-based independent theatre-maker whose practice is focused on extending the female voice. Since graduating from QUT in 2014, she has gone onto work with Punchdrunk's Sleep No More in New York City and trained with movement choreographer Stacey Donovan of the The Improbable Stage. Upon returning to Australia, she co-devised an tradicomedy theatre piece called Love Letters to Fuckbois and Other Woes of Wayward Women with Melina Wightman and it sold out  at both Brisbane's Anywhere Festival and Melbourne Fringe. Lia's theatre practice will always strive to achieve one of three manifesto-like goals; the engagement with, examination of and proliferation of the female perspective, the use of personal testimony/truths at the centre of every story and creating theatre that is community-led incitement for change.

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Alice Hung does awesome things with bamboo. She hasn't been able to send through a bio yet because she's overseas, but House Conspiracy is keen to have such a talented Bamboo Weaver working within our walls in 2017.

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Jesse Perrin is a Brisbane based contemporary artist whose practice primarily involves soft sculpture, featuring the occasional uncanny aspect. Recently the artist has delved into the digital realm, branching off into sound and performance based works. Originally a painter, the artist chose to expand her horizons, taking on new approaches to old mediums as well as experimenting with new and diverse media.

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Caitlin Strongarm is a vaudevillian maelstrom who creates and performs wild, heart-felt and charming acts of interactive theatre. She invites audiences to create performances alongside her, and creates cathartic and fleeting moments by weaving naive improvisation, non-verbal clowning and physical theatre driven by a child-like approach to play and imagination.

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Bri Lee is a Brisbane-based writer and the Founding Editor of Hot Chicks with Big Brains. Her debut memoir, Eggshell Skull, will be published by Allen & Unwin in early 2018.

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Unqualified Design is a collaborative practice of young architects, artists & fabricators. They create interactive experiences to inspire and engage diverse audiences. Their aim is to transform participants into active contributors to the creative process, by generating roles and provoking actions, blurring the distinction between performer and spectator. The group has come together through a variety of creative initiatives including HSBNE, Modifyre, and The Wonky Queenslander.

Unqualified Design Studio is Shane Sugrue / Karl Richardson / Jason Beattie / Marisa Georgiou / Amy Learmonth / Sterling Blackett / Aleea Monsour.

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Ben’s writing credits include; Warning: Small Parts (Grin & Tonic 2012, HotHouse Theatre 2014, Regional Arts Victoria 2015), The Runaways (QUT 2013), As We Come Undone (QUT 2014 “Best in Show”), The Children’s Monologues (Digi Youth Arts 2015, SOLO Monologue Competition – WINNER Unpublished category 2015). Ben participated in Playlab’s Incubator program in 2016. 

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Installation artist Annelize Mulder has been developing her art practice for over a decade. Currently working in sculpture, video and sound, Annelize has been involved in exhibitions across South Africa and Australia. As migrant to Australia, she continually explores themes of displacement and cultural belonging in her art practice.

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Liam Herne is an artist from the UK who is based in Brisbane. He predominately works with traditional photography and new media. His practice explores how new technologies and the Internet impact upon our lives and culture. Herne has exhibited his work in a variety of countries including the UK, Australia and the USA. 

You can see more of Liam at houseconspiracy.org/liam-herne.

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