TREE+MAN
Doofword is an arts incubator event held in the Noosa hinterland township of Cooroy which was founded on saw-milling. The theme for the 2019 Doofword event is TREE+MAN, an investigation into the interface between nature and need, intention and deed, between people and the environment, its use and abuse and how these relationships were, are and might be navigated.
We have made the event biennial to ensure that participating artists have enough time to plan and execute projects.
There is already a major developmental collaborative work in planning for the event which has received Noosa Council support RADF support.
We have made the event biennial to ensure that participating artists have enough time to plan and execute projects.
There is already a major developmental collaborative work in planning for the event which has received Noosa Council support RADF support.
2017 ARTISTS
∑gg√e|n DAVID ETHIX + MAGNUS O'PUS + Chels Bells + Conwae Twitter Originally called Mandate, the band was formed in 2011 by contemporary artists David Ethix (guitars, bass, synths), and Magnus O'Pus (vocals). Later to be joined by two more artists: Rand M Strange (bass) and D’White Yokem taking up the drums. From 2011-2014 they released a 10'’ live EP In 2017 they released a full length 12" vinyl. The primordial David Ethix has played guitar, drums and synths and created music for numerous groups since the late 80’s including, Blundstone, Ovine Yonie, Super Group, Milk Star, No Tony and Sunday Death Sentence, along the way collaborating with an array of significant artist/musicians from Australia, New Zealand and America. Current side projects include electronic ambo-noise duo Weekend Immendorff. Singer and lyricist Magnus O’Pus describes himself as a “blunt tongued, low energy social nihilist poet and songwriter.” He has published a book of lyrics, “Gutter Parade”, and is soon to release a solo LP.. CLEVER M.Perkins + C.Galletly + H.Byrne + F.Gooch Clever is as Clever does. Clever feed themselves full of each other in what has to be one of the more ferocious excursions into post punk, trash rock scuzz around, surfing a standing wave of feedback through the back of your head. Their record, Kewdie Udi is out on Homeless Records in a collector's vinyl edition. WONDERFULS ROBERT VAGG & DANNY McGIRR Described as bereft, hopeless and sentimental, front man Robert Vagg delivers drowsy, bleak confessionals - entwined with Danny McGirr's solitary, spectral guitar which is remote and eerily pretty. Vagg and McGirr's youth involved frequent relocation - NSW, SA, WA, and finally QLD. Long days staring out car windows over vacant fields, one pub towns, short and prolonged stays in the run down outer suburbs of cities, pulled in and out of schools, domestic unrest and isolation, which can be heard through the music and words of both Vagg and McGirr. Scattered fragments cling to each nostalgic tale of lost youth, mental illness, family unrest, addiction and social isolation. POET CHRISTOPHER BARNETT Christopher Barnett is one of Australia's most esteemed experimental poets. Originally from Adelaide where he practiced as a writer, director and performer of experimental theater and poetry, he now lives in Nantes, France. To celebrate the publication (OCT) of his forthcoming book O Horsey, featured festival poets will perform selected poems from the work.. WEEKEND IMMENDORFF After purchasing a record by Edgar Froese in a downbeat shopping mall on the Gold Coast, Howard and Thomas began Weekend Immendorff. Weekend Immendorff is an musical collaboration that detours German and other Electronic Music. Their music is spontaneous - adhering to the maxim "there are no wrong notes" just opportunities for improvisation. Weekend Immendorff is David M Thomas: arranger and synthesiser + Suzanne Howard: organ and synthesiser CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS VISUAL ARTIST & CURATOR CLINTON CROSS has been an exhibiting artist and part time curator for 27 years, mainly in mixed media assemblage and painting. He is currently working on his first overseas exhibition in London taking eight artists with emphasis on works on paper and to promote his Cross Gallery. The Bundaberg gallery opened in 2016 to bring contemporary art to the Wide Bay area mainly concentrating on mid career and late career artists with prolific careers like Yvonne Boag, Louise Tuckwell, Terri Brooks and Lorna Crane. Art education for the younger generation is the most important element of dealing for Cross. |
WRITING & PERFORMANCE BRENTLEY FRAZER is a generation X Australian writer. He is the author of six collections of poems, most recently Aboriginal to Nowhere and the critically acclaimed nonfiction novel, Scoundrel Days: a memoir Brentley recently completed a PhD submission and currently lectures in creative writing at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, where he lives. CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS MEJU MEGAN BERNARD & KALJU TONUMA Melbourne sound artists and production team Meju goes deep onto the sound, pulling it apart and putting it back together in a new harmonic structure. Their shimmering patterns take influences from the 60's through to contemporary electronica, effortlessly making the real imaginary and the imaginary real. It is music as real as can be imagined. POETRY & PERFORMNCE HAMISH DANKS BROWN Hamish Danks Brown aka Danksta Downunder was shortlisted for the 2016 Melbourne Spoken Word Prize. He moved to Melbourne after traveling and performing across North America, Europe and Asia in 2015-16. Currently he emcees Spoken Word at Bar Oussou (Brunswick), and assists with Slamalamadingdong events in The Melba Spiegeltent and Melbourne Poets Union POAM magazine. He has also performed Wordfood@Woodford festival, Reality Bites, and heats of the Australian Poetry Slam. Photo by Brendan Bonsack. GRAVEL SAMWIDGE If you slowed down Kim Salmon to an almost grinding halt then you’d be getting close to how the Samwidge butter their bread. Any band that put on the breaks get compared to Flipper but this doesn’t sound like Flipper. This is stronger person’s music. They cut through the concrete and the only damn thing lubricating the whole operation is their slobber. No water needed, you are the rubble. CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS SPACE<>BETWEEN SPACE<>BETWEEN is a full spectrum light-being, part superhero, part vortex. The space between Liam Mitchell and Jordy Davy is a high energy play-space where the most mundane reality can transform in the click of a mouse. Based on the Sunshine Coast, SPACE<>BETWEEN is the performance arm of BlankSp_ces, their 2D moniker Their work comprises cosplay, photography, and theater elements. EXPERIMENTAL FILM NICHOLAS NEDELKOPOULOS Nicholas Nedelkopoulos was born, lives and works in Melbourne. His contribution to the event will be films of a recent collaboration of experimental films titled ‘Drive-by’ with poet and sound artist Geoffrey Datson - a series of 20 x 15 min experimental films embedded with spoken word soundscapes. His first film screening was in 1972 and since his films have been included in film festivals: Australian International Experimental Film Festival; Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic; Queensland Poetry Festival, Brisbane; St. Kilda Film Festival Melbourne; Strawberry Super 8 Film Festival, Cambridge UK. He was awarded Best Cinematographer in the 2001 Condition Yellow Short Film Festival. Nedelkopoulos has an extensive visual career and has received a PhD from Monash University, and MA from the University of Melbourne and completed undergraduate studies at the VCA. 2 CHEVRONS 2 CHEVRONS have been quietly recording their first album of gorgeous garage pop - beguiling melodies and perfectly pitched emotional range. 2 Chevrons is the lovechild of Caroline Milne and Mark Spinks, and many, many left handed instruments. CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS |
AUTISTICUS noisework collective Making twisted electronica with a dancin' trancin' feel., Austisticus is a noise-work collective led by Giuseppe Palumbo - the man who broke dance music in Australia. Transforming electric guitar into wheels of steel., Giuseppe (Jo) teams with Datson Hughes, and for Doofword, with special guests Meju, Big Kev on clapstix, and Kerry on Guitar. VISUAL ART & SCULPTURE MEAGHAN SHELTON Cross disciplinary Australian artist based in regional Queensland who has previously lived and worked in London and Melbourne. Her practice is painting based and extends to photography, sculpture, installation and film. Meaghan completes her Master of Fine Art this year through Queensland University of Technology. Her work considers the feminine aspect both historically and in contemporary context. Kendra and Meaghan Shelton are currently engaged in collaboration on a joint work for Doofword.. EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC LIGHT & SOUND Levana L’ermite is the stage name of local experimental musician, artist and music technology engineer Blake Manton. Creating many different forms of electronic music for 15 years, and doing live visual light shows for 6. Seeing him perform you can expect an immersive and unique audio/visual journey using an array of self-designed and hand built audio and video electronics. Visuals by Fassifern (Kit Mason). POET, MUSICIAN, COMPOSER Mohsen soltany zand Mohsen Soltany Zand is an Iranian refugee who spent four years in detention first at Port headland then Villawood, where the he and poet/sound artist Geoffrey Datson first met. While he was still in Villawood, Stickylabel, with Datson as producer, released Mohsen, the refugee poet's debut spoken word album. Datson appeared in 2003 at the NSW Writers' Centre performing works from that album. The pair were invited to appear at the 2004 Sydney Writers' Festival to perform the work following the Iranian refugee poet's release from detention. Their artistic collaboration, on music, spoken word, instrument making and recording has developed into a long term friendship. In 2005 Stickylabel released Mohsen Soltany's second album Australian Dream, a double CD which received national ABC air play on Poetica, and was reviewed in by Ali Alizedeh. The work comprises Mohsen's poetry spoken to his own music by a host of famous and ordinary Australians, including Bryan Brown, Tom Kenneally, John Bell, Claudia Karvan and many others. PERFORMANCE POET LADY LONGDROP Kendra Keller (aka Lady Longdrop) is a poet, story-weaver and performance artist, combining text, voice and the body in concert to achieve an ecstatic state. Her practice is a journey of discovery, folding movement, visual and theatrical elements into performance often in collaboration.. She performs regularly at events and festivals around the country. Kendra and Meaghan Shelton are currently engaged in collaboration on a joint work for Doofword.. DATSON HUGHES ANNETTE HUGHES & GEOFFREY DATSON Psycheldelic folk duo of songwriting team of artistic collaborators Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes formed in 2008 when Hughes picked up Datson's dulcimer, They make 'mountain music', on DIY handmade instruments and have since released 3 independent singles, and EP which they toured in 4 states in early 2016 and will release their long anticipated debut vinyl album "Flowers and the Axe" at Doofword. Annette is the event manager and artistic director of Doofword. Geoffrey is the artistic director of DRONE432. They are also working in collaboration with refugee activist poet and composer Mohsen Soltany Zand on the performance of his sonic memoir, Australian Dream. |