The next generation of creative talent on the big screen will be unlocked as part of the City of Melbourne’s SIGNAL.
The creative studio for young people will launch its latest Screen and Sound Commissions – with 12 new artworks made by 8 emerging artists, developing new digital and online works alongside industry professionals.
During the 12-week program, the young creatives developed a screen or sound work, as well as an audiovisual piece in collaboration with a commissioned artist.
Commissioned work will hit the screen this week by:
- Lǐ Xīng Yǔ (Echo Li) – a focus on performance, writing, photography and video, documenting romantic obsession that is both personal and political, linking love and cultural loss.
- Amy Manson – an animator with a particular interest in the intersection between art, biology, and scientific theory, inspired by the insects that influence advances in technology.
- Sofie McClure – an experimental non-fiction filmmaker whose work intersects with video art documentary, which seeks to challenge the conception of film as a strictly audio-visual medium.
- Carmen Yih – a dancer and filmmaker whose commissioned work shows the complex layering of cultural codes and embodies heritage on immigrant bodies.
- Rebecca Bracewell – an orchestral musician with hearing loss, who’s turned to sound design and composition to explore more creatively fulfilling and flexible approaches to music making.
- Monique Gawne – a multidisciplinary artist with a background in printmaking, documenting everyday life and learning experiences which is shared through audio collage.
- April Guest – a beatboxer, composer, vocalist, and pianist using vocal exploration as an antidote to the binary gendered expectations of the voice and the dysphoria this can produce.
- Fetle Wondimu Nega – a sound artist, singer and music producer whose commission explores bilingualism and cultural code switching using live coding and vocals inspired by Ethiopian jazz and Orthodox hymns.
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