Marketing Summit 2016. Valuing The Arts
June 9-10. Adelaide
Presenter: Lucy Shorrocks 

Research session 4: The spectrum of audience engagement

Lucy Shorrocks presents a whistlestop tour of a model for strategic audience engagement – the result of a partnership with a client. This spectrum was the result of generating, triaging and analysing hundreds of big ideas to fuel the debate about the direction the organsiation should take next – all of which are now informing their future plans. This spectrum become a model for strategic audience engagement. At the end of the session you’ll be able to walk away with a How to Guide for creating the framework.

Research session 4: The spectrum of audience engagement

A plain English version of our Disability Action Plan 2014-2016 Evaluation Summary, including goals, approach, key findings and key recommendations.

DAP Evaluation Summary

Reporting on cross-border arts and cross-cultural exchange

Join two of the world’s leading performing arts curators for reflections on the creation of Fusebox Festival 2020: Virtual Edition (April 24-26).

Ron Berry from Fusebox Festival (Austin, Texas) invited Jeff Khan from Performance Space (Sydney) to collaborate on a program of work for his renowned annual arts festival. Three years of dialogue and exchange would culminate in a showcase of experimental works by Australian and Asia-Pacific artists in the upcoming festival in April 2020. However, due to the impacts of COVID-19, it became clear just one month out that an in-person, live version would not be possible. Would they cancel, postpone, or perhaps re-imagine and re-design a wholly new online version?

Sound design: Sudeep Lingamneni
Editing and mastering: Jonnine Nokes

About the series
The Australia Council’s INTEL: PODCAST SERIES is a peer-to-peer market intelligence resource designed to inform and upskill the arts sector on ‘live’, best practice, and innovative approaches to international engagement. The series spotlights guests who are actively forging pathways for the internationalisation of Australian work, and who continue to work within a cross-cultural and cross-border capacity.

Episode 1 - The Future is Now: Jeff Khan & Ron Berry

Reporting on cross-border arts and cross-cultural exchange.

Hear tips from artist Rainbow Chan, about the importance of listening to the room, slowing down, and looking horizontally – as strategies for both working interculturally, and getting through this global crisis.

This Hong Kong spring, interdisciplinary artist Rainbow Chan was supposed to be on residency at West Kowloon Cultural District, an exchange with Performance Space, and at Art Central Hong Kong, presented by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. She would have been developing work in collaboration with her Weitou elders, sharing their folksongs and female narratives, as one of Hong Kong’s first peoples. With national borders now closed, and generations physically isolating from each other, Rainbow is at home in Sydney, making music for her audiences online, and writing about counterfeit cultures (real fakes and fake reals). 

In this episode, Rainbow Chan talks about the importance of listening to the room, slowing down, and looking horizontally – as strategies for both working interculturally, and getting through this global crisis. 

Featured in this episode is Rainbow Chan’s track "Oblivion" from her album Pillar (2019), independently released and available as vinyl or the digital LP from her Bandcamp.   

Sound design: Sudeep Lingamneni
Editing and mastering: Jonnine Nokes
Image credit: Rainbow Chan, Pillar (2019) digital and vinyl LP. Written, recorded and produced by Rainbow Chan. Photo by Hyun Lee. Cover design by Craig Stubbs-Race. Image courtesy of the artist. 

About the series
The Australia Council’s INTEL: PODCAST SERIES is a peer-to-peer market intelligence resource designed to inform and upskill the arts sector on ‘live’, best practice, and innovative approaches to international engagement. The series spotlights guests who are actively forging pathways for the internationalisation of Australian work, and who continue to work within a cross-cultural and cross-border capacity.

Episode 2 - Looking horizontally: Rainbow Chan

Reporting on cross-border arts and cross-cultural exchange.

Theatre-maker Samara Hersch was pitching her work We all know what’s happening made with collaborator and friend Lara Thoms at the Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM) in February this year. Samara had flown in from Amsterdam, where she now lives, for her first ever APAM pitch. En route back, she was to make a pitstop at Singapore to work with The Theatre Practice and facilitate conversations with young people there as part of her ongoing work Body of knowledge, supported by Australia Council and the National Arts Council, Singapore. Alas, COVID-19 hit, borders closed, flights halted and Samara is currently stuck in Melbourne. She shares how she facilitated the conversation with young people anyway, from her bedroom! 

Samara chats through questions of distance, proximity, presence and absence in her practice and the very real need to keep showing up for each other during this time. 

Sound design: Sudeep Lingamneni
Editing and mastering: Jonnine Nokes 

Image credit: Samara Hersch, We all know what's happening. Credit: Byrony Jackson

About the series
The Australia Council’s INTEL: PODCAST SERIES is a peer-to-peer market intelligence resource designed to inform and upskill the arts sector on ‘live’, best practice, and innovative approaches to international engagement. The series spotlights guests who are actively forging pathways for the internationalisation of Australian work, and who continue to work within a cross-cultural and cross-border capacity.

Episode 3 - Showing up for each other: Samara Hersch

Reporting on cross-border arts and cross-cultural exchange

For Tokyo-based Elena Knox, an artist who in recent years has sustained her creative practice exhibiting internationally, what is the way forward from here? 

Across her music, performance, video and installation work, Elena has worked with other artists, science labs and premier cultural institutions, including Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and the upcoming Yokohama Triennale, AFTERGLOW, curated by Raqs Media Collective, set to open in July. 

It might be a little early to tell, but art with technology - Elena’s longstanding area of inquiry - will play an important role moving forward. Meanwhile, the current pause in presentation commitments offers space to reflect on the realities of living and working as an ‘outsider’ in Japan, and a timely appreciation of the small gatherings that the Tokyo music and art scenes have always approached with integrity.
Website: www.elenaknox.com

Sound design: Sudeep Lingamneni
Editing and mastering: Jonnine Nokes 

Music credit: Featured in this episode is Elena Knox’s music, as part of electric pop duo Actual Russian Brides, "This Haus". Courtesy Brigade Music Berlin.
Image credit: Elena Knox, Comfortable and Alive, 2014, video still. Courtesy the artist. 

Elena Knox is represented by Anomaly, Tokyo.

About the series
The Australia Council’s INTEL: PODCAST SERIES is a peer-to-peer market intelligence resource designed to inform and upskill the arts sector on ‘live’, best practice, and innovative approaches to international engagement. The series spotlights guests who are actively forging pathways for the internationalisation of Australian work, and who continue to work within a cross-cultural and cross-border capacity.

Episode 4 - It's a little early: Elena Knox

Reporting on cross-border arts and cross-cultural exchange

What does it mean to be under a stay at home order when you’re far from home? In this podcast we speak to two international artists, dancer and choreographer, James Batchelor, and composer and musician, Judith Hamann. 

Both artists in residence, James speaks from lockdown at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and Judith calls in from Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP), located on a small island 20 minutes from the city. 

Embarking on their respective residencies at the beginning of March, each artist experienced a swift and dramatic change of circumstance. Here they discuss the gap between their original ambitions – for live performance, for choirs and collaboration, for networking and sightseeing – and their new, circumscribed reality. Connection is still possible, “thank God for Wi-Fi”, but we might observe that isolation breeds introspection. Is there something almost utopian about a residency truly cut off in space and time? What conditions for creation can be maintained in isolation, and what will have to wait?

And, ultimately, where is home anyway? 

Here we consider what home means for these international Australian artists, whose artistic development and professional practice means / has meant they are always on the move. 

What does it mean to stop and to stay?

Sound design: Sudeep Lingamneni
Editing and mastering: Jonnine Nokes

Music credits: 
Judith Hamann - Etude for Multiphonics
Judith Hamann & Rosalind Hall - Gossamers
Judith Hamann & Lori Goldston - Alloys

Image credit: Judith Hamann

About the series
The Australia Council’s INTEL: PODCAST SERIES is a peer-to-peer market intelligence resource designed to inform and upskill the arts sector on ‘live’, best practice, and innovative approaches to international engagement. The series spotlights guests who are actively forging pathways for the internationalisation of Australian work, and who continue to work within a cross-cultural and cross-border capacity.

Episode 5: Things will have to wait - Judith Hamann & James Batchelor

Reporting on cross-border arts and cross-cultural exchange

As a storyteller, Kamini Ramachandran's tools of trade are her voice, her body and her vast knowledge of oral traditions from Southeast Asia. In this strange new world we live in today, she finds that she and her other artists friends have to adapt their practices, but yet, solidarity and support for one another never waver. Kamini talks about how she keeps her audiences engaged and making sure that they don't forget the arts.

Production credits
Sound design: Sudeep Lingamneni
Editing and mastering: Jonnine Nokes

Image credit: In Search of the Gelam Tree. Credit: Arts House Limited.

About the series
The Australia Council’s INTEL: PODCAST SERIES is a peer-to-peer market intelligence resource designed to inform and upskill the arts sector on ‘live’, best practice, and innovative approaches to international engagement. The series spotlights guests who are actively forging pathways for the internationalisation of Australian work, and who continue to work within a cross-cultural and cross-border capacity.

Episode 6: Audiences won't forget us - Kamini Ramachandran

In this bonus episode we chat with First Nations artist, curator and writer Jacob Boehme. Jacob has worked across North America, Europe, North Asia, South East Asia and South Asia, and we chat to Jacob on the wisdom of ancestors and elders on country, the need for intergenerational processes and taking a deep pause so we can learn from the long history of this land in catalysing alternate futures. 

Production credits
Sound design: Sudeep Lingamneni and James Henry
Editing and mastering: Jonnine Nokes

Image credit: courtesy of the artist. 

About the series
The Australia Council’s INTEL: PODCAST SERIES is a peer-to-peer market intelligence resource designed to inform and upskill the arts sector on ‘live’, best practice, and innovative approaches to international engagement. The series spotlights guests who are actively forging pathways for the internationalisation of Australian work, and who continue to work within a cross-cultural and cross-border capacity.

Episode  7 - Looking back to look forward: Jacob Boehme

We are the Australian Government’s principal arts investment and advisory body. 

With artists at the heart of what we do, we invest in creative talent and stimulate the market for Australian stories to be told on a national and international scale, sharing our rich culture with the world.  

We do this because art and creativity define us, recording what we have been and what we might yet become.

Creative Australia

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