SUMAGAN SIVANESAN stayed at the at the Broken Hill Art Exchange Inc residency for two weeks in July 2009
The aim of Sumugan Sivanesan’s residency was to conduct a video production workshop for the Nursing Academy: Stepping back, Looking Forward Program Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health (BH UDRH). The workshop was held at the Broken Hill art Exchange Inc. with high school students. They edited and produced a promotional video for the program with footage taken by students at the academy. Susan Thomas from the Art Exchange Inc attended the academy days and provided raw footage and interviews for the group to edit.
Sumugan Sivanesan is an artist that maintains a multi disciplinary practice across installation, sound, video and performance. Often working collaboratively, he is broadly concerned with issues of globalisation, de-colonization and cultural exchange in a networked world. He has exhibited at Black and Blue Gallery (Sydney, 2009), Sydney Underground Film Festival (2009), OK Video Festival (Jakarta, Indonesia 2009), Filmer la Musique (France 2009) GRANTPIRIE|WINDOW (Sydney, 2009), Gang Festival, (Sydney – Indonesia 2005–6, 2008), Underbelly (Sydney 2007–08), Transit Lounge (Berlin – Australia, 2006 & 2008), Transmediale (Germany 2006), Videobrasil (Brasil 2005), Electrofringe (Australia 2003), Abstraction Now (Vienna 2003), New Forms (Canada 2003), The International Symposium for Electronic Art (Japan 2002), d>ART (Australia 2002 & 2004), Liquid Architecture (Australia 2002 & 2004 - 05), Experimenta (Australia 2001). He is a core member of theweathergroup_U, a collective formed to pursue experimental methods of media production, digital story telling, and community-based knowledge exchange. Their work for the Biennale of Sydney 2008 focussed on indigenous / non–indigenous practices and relationships broadly concerned with climate change. www.theweathergroup.org
Link: www.sivanesan.net
