Willoh S. Weiland_
Willoh S.Weiland is a cross-disciplinary artist and curator concerned with exploring new ways for text to inhabit contemporary art, through the use of performance, technology, sound, science and the visual arts.
She completed a Graduate Diploma in Performance Making at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004.
She also curates a new residency lab called LUPA/art in Melbourne.
Her work includes The Memory Priest, 2008, site speicific: Bruises, 2007, Lupa Art: Lens, 2005,fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne: 2Traverse, 2003 Melbourne Fringe, The Storeroom: The Amnesia Project, 2004, site specific.
Her performance writing has been part of the The Big West Festival, the Emerging Writers Festival, This Is Not Art Festival, the Noise Festival and aired on the ABC’s JJJ and Radio National, RRR, PBS and Australia Music Online.
Recently commisions include Antidote (Melbourne Fringe, Highly Commended Best Performance, 6 Green Room award nominations)/ Underwhere for Lucy Who Productions (APAM, Adelaide Fringe).
Her last work 'Yelling at Stars' Australia’s first inter stellar message in the form of a performance art work utilizing sound/ video and sculpture took place at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on the closing night of the Next Wave Festival 2008 and was supported by Aphids, Full Tilt at the Arts Centre, SBS World News Australia, Deep Space Communications, Swinburne University’s Department of Astrophysics and Supercomputing, The Australia Council, Arts Victoria, the City of Melbourne.
Currently she is assistant directing Jenny Kemp on her new work 'Kitten' for the Melbourne International Festival, collaborating with Blood Policy on their puppetry/ machinima/ new media work 'The Outside' and expanding on her installation practice.
4th July 2008
Websites
Website url: http://www.yellingatstars.com
Blog url: http://www.lupaart.blogspot.com
Areas of Practice
Artist, Writer, Curator, Project Manager / Producer
Projects
Synapse Residencies 08/09
4th July 2008
The Synapse Residencies place Australian artists into science and research settings, both within Australia and internationally, to pursue collaborative projects with benefits accruing to both the resident and the host organisation.
