The Substation/ Artist/Ranters / Adriano Cortese / Anna Tregloan / Bob Jarvis/
ADRIANO CORTESE
Adriano is the Artistic Director of Melbourne based Ranters Theatre. The company’s work is centred on the idea of performance in everyday life and has been presented in theatres, inside homes, in gardens and on the streets. Ranters collaborates with leading local and international visual artists, choreographers, designers, sound artists and performers and is presented nationally and internationally. Between 2017-21 Adriano co-directed the Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival in South Korea. Credits include UNKNOWN NEIGHBOURS Theatre Works/Festival of Live Art; Ansan Arts Festival, Korea; COME AWAY Malthouse Theatre; Dublin Theatre Festival; SONG - Coil Festival, New York; Garajistanbul, Istanbul; IPF, Cardiff; Arts House, Melbourne; INTIMACY Festival d’Automne a Paris, Theatre Garonne, Toulouse; Street Theatre, Canberra; COIL Festival, New York; PuSh Festival, Vancouver; Theaterformen; Culturgest, Noorderzon.
ANNA TREGLOAN
Anna is an award-winning artist/designer with an extensive history in contemporary theatre and dance, physical theatre, opera, live-art and installation art. Presenting through-out Australia and internationally her recent works include THE GHOST PROJECT, Melbourne, The Substation/AsiaTOPA (2016/2017), Siteworks Festival (2016), Sydney (SHIFA 2014), Hong Kong (2014), Prague (2015), Campbelltown Arts Centre (2014/2017), Yogyakarta (2014), Seoul MMCA Page 6 of 10 (2014); WONDERLAND: ACMI/Melbourne Winter Masterpieces. Exhibition design (2018); THE MUSEUM OF LOVE AND PROTEST: 40th Anniversary Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (2018), Exhibition design; THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE: ACMI (2016) & Touring (2017-2018), Exhibition design; BLOOD: The Science Gallery, Melbourne. Exhibition design (2017); THE COLOUR OF THE SKY TODAY: A participatory installation, Prague Quadrennial (2015).
BOB JARVIS
Bob is an artist/researcher working with music, vision, and code to explore the bleeding edge of multimodal composition and performance. He works as Director of Technology with Melbourne interactive arts company Playable Streets and a supervisor in the Interactive Composition department at The Victorian College of the Arts. His audio-visual works, compositions, and software tools have found international audiences, winning awards at The International Space Time Concerto Competition, The International Visual Music Awards. Recent credits include: ALERON 1 – ‘Audio Mostly’, Graz, Austria, 2020; GELFLING SONG –for the Album ‘With the Moon Alongside Racing Along’; ELECTRIC SHEEP, A.I. conducted musical performance with The Australian Creative Music Ensemble. The Substation. 2017; LUMINESCE, with Slater, Gian. Live audio-visual performance with choir Invenio. St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. 2016; BOWIE, Interactive video installation. ACMI Melb. 2016.
GOVIN RUBEN
Govin is a performance maker, designer and creative producer based in Melbourne. Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Melbourne; He has collaborated and created highly successful artworks in dance, theatre, puppetry and installation art in; and with, leading artists from Asia, America, Europe and Australia. In recent years, he has initiated, steered, directed and designed multiple international collaborations. These include; ‘My Lingam Speaks’ a hybrid work in comedy, ‘Klue,Doh!’ a work in theatre, ‘The Bee Project’ a site specific work set in a functioning café, ‘Flatland; An Adaptation in Dance’, ‘Welcome2Flatland’ an Interactive Public Art Installation, ‘SK!N’ a work in contemporary performance based on true stories about Human Trafficking, 'LIGHT' a work about the shared colonial past of Penang and Adelaide which was presented by the Adelaide Festival Centre at the 2019 OzAsia Festival and 'HuRU-hARa' a hybrid performance art and venue at the 2020 AsiaTOPA Festival in Melbourne.
