Suzon Fuks - Thanatonautes, navigateurs de la mort
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Suzon Fuks is a director, choreographer and multimedia artist exploring
the integration and interaction of dance and moving image through
performance, screen, installation and online work.
Born in
Brussels in 1959, trained in dance, theatre & music at Lilian
Lambert Academy (69-76) and completed her Masters in Visual Arts at La
Cambre (79-84). She has lived in Australia since 1996 and has been
co-artistic director of multimedia and performance company Igneous
since its inception in 1997.
She has directed 14 movement-based
multimedia performance productions, created film/video-scenography for
18 productions, directed and edited 19 films and videos including 11
videodances, and co-devised 6 online interactive performance works. She
gives lectures and workshops in tertiary institutions in Australia
& Europe integrating video with the performing arts & fostering
multimedia artistic collaboration, as well as tailoring workshops for
community cultural development projects. Following a mentorship with
Keith Armstrong, she has been researching and developing networked
performance since 2003.
In 2008, she won the Green Room Award
for Outstanding Video-Scenography in Theatre (New Form), was
short-listed for Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in
Independent dance, was nominated for Australian Dance Award for Dance
on Film and was a finalist in the ReelDance Awards. In 1986, Suzon made
the film-scenography of the Mandragore Theatre's highly successful show
The Strange Mr Knight, which toured internationally for 5 years, with
more than 1,000 shows.
Her photographic exhibition Keeping the Light toured from 1997 to 2001 to seven capitals of the world, and her photographs
are part of the State Library of NSW and the National Library of
Australia collections.
Suzon's work has been shown in over 50
festivals throughout the world. In recognition of her expertise, she is
being made Adjunct Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University and will
be an Australia Council for the Arts Fellow from September 2009 to
March 2012.