The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge

“The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge is a live...

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“The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge is a live public artwork along and across the Yarra River.
See a familiar place from four new perspectives and add your thoughts and your hands to the action.
Sometimes divided, sometimes connected, you’ll have questions to answer and decisions to make”

Just four participants at a time experienced a series of interconnected site-specific performances at sites surrounding the Southbank Pedestrian Bridge in Melbourne, Australia. The creative development and premiere season was supported by the 2012 Next Wave Festival.

We’d like to thank the team who did a fabulous job on this video:

Director/Producer/DOP: Max Milne www.maxmilne.com
Editor: Thomas Kinsman www.thomaskinsman.com
Sound Designer: Adam Hunt

We have been nominated for a Melbourne Green Room Award! The...

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We have been nominated for a Melbourne Green Room Award! The nomination is for Outstanding Production - Creative Agency for Audiences under the Alternative & Hybrid Performance category. Our work is mentioned alongside some terrific artists and work we admire - congratulations to our fellow nominees Triage Live Art Collective, Team Mess, Elizabeth Dunn & co and Jason Mailing.

The nomination is for ALL of the collaborating artists who made The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge. Further congratulations to Andrew Bailey who was also nominated for his entire Years Work at Melbourne Theatre Company for Set And Costume Design in the Theatre - Companies category.

Finally, particular thanks and awe to Next Wave Festival for supporting our work and so many others - 8 Next Wave Festival events were nominated!

Photos from the 2012 Next Wave season along and across the Yarra...

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Our pictogram flag

Start at our booth with Georgie & Lauren

The Stream, with Jamie Lewis

The Boat, with Dan Koop

The Shore, with Max Milne

The Bridge, with Penny Harpham

Andrew Bailey

The Shore

The Yarra and Melbourne taking shape

The Boat, under The Bridge

Photos from the 2012 Next Wave season along and across the Yarra River at Southbank, Melbourne.

Photos by Max Milne Photography.

Testing & Celebrating the Social Animal by Jane Howard,...

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Testing & Celebrating the Social Animal by Jane Howard, RealTime issue #109 June 26 2012

“My journey started by being taken across the Yarra on a rowboat by Dan Koop. The work asks the audience to give as much of themselves to the work as they hope to get out of it, and Koop plays wonderfully with the balance of pushing past barriers without causing discomfort.

Continuing my journey to the stream and then onto the bridge, my relationship with each of the artists and with the river seemed to follow a logical growth— from the deeply personal conversation with Koop to learning about the river from Jamie Lewis, to a dialogue-less communication on the bridge powered through body language, headphones and handwritten notes.”

When the City Waves BY ANDY FIELD, Exuent Magazine, 1 June...

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When the City Waves

BY ANDY FIELD, Exuent Magazine, 1 June 2012

“in Dan Koop’s The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge I moved gently back and forth across Melbourne’s river, The Yarra, delicately unpicking its influence on the city as a place of fluidity and change; of endings and beginnings.”

artsHub review by Richard Watts, 25 May 2012 “The Stream /...

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artsHub review by Richard Watts, 25 May 2012

“The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge is a remarkable, life-affirming and engaging work that brings a smile to one’s face many hours after the work itself is over. It is, without doubt, a highlight of the 2012 Next Wave Festival, and comes highly recommended.

Rating: 4 stars out of 5”

Next Wave Pegboard, 24 May 2012: Review by Jane Howard AKA No...

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Next Wave Pegboard, 24 May 2012:

Review by Jane Howard AKA No Plain Jane

“From a little booth on the Southbank Wharf usually home to river cruises, I took a different kind of tour of the Yarra. For four people at a time, those who explore The Stream/The Boat/The Shore/The Bridge have journeys that are similar and connected, but separate and personal. To talk about it too much is to give away its secrets and surprises, but you might learn some more about the river, how to leave troubles behind, how a city is made, and how to take an unexpected chance on yourself and on others. I left feeling joyed, hopeful, centred and connected.”

Three Thousand review by Toby Fehily, 20 May 2012 “You’ll...

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Three Thousand review by Toby Fehily, 20 May 2012

“You’ll show up at Southbank along with three others. Each of you will be sent off to one of four performance sites along the Yarra River to do fun things before moving along to the next point to do more fun things: all sorts of fun things to do with looking, listening, touching, talking, thinking and playing.”

Click HERE to listen to Dan Koop’s radio interview with Richard...

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Click HERE to listen to Dan Koop’s radio interview with Richard Watts on RRR’s Smart Arts on Thursday 17 May 2012. The interview also features fellow 2012 Next Wave Festival artists Tiffany Singh (Drums Between The Bells) and Leisel Zink (Fifteen).

Front Row Seats On The Yarra by Paul Best, The Age, 16 May...

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Front Row Seats On The Yarra by Paul Best, The Age, 16 May 2012

“”I’m trying to give a familiar landmark a new perspective,” Koop says, wondering aloud how many of us have crossed our famously murky waterway in an inflatable craft. ”While a lot of Melbourne will cross the river and experience these sites, quite often it’s something you’ll skirt over really quickly.

”By spending time and lingering at these sites, we’re really hoping to expand upon what these things can mean. But also what we’re doing is getting people to linger and spend time with themselves.””

Photo

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Kittycoldwater has set sail thanks to the patrons Ned and Majda...

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Kittycoldwater has set sail thanks to the patrons Ned and Majda down at Twenty & Six.

All photos by Max Milne Photography

IT’S OFFICIAL! You can now buy a ticket with the full...

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IT’S OFFICIAL!

You can now buy a ticket with the full blessing of Parks Victoria.

"With one group of students, the teacher provided strong “scaffolding” — instructional support — and..."

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“With one group of students, the teacher provided strong “scaffolding” — instructional support — and feedback. With the teacher’s help, these pupils were able to find the answers to their set of problems. Meanwhile, a second group was directed to solve the same problems by collaborating with one another, absent any prompts from their instructor. These students weren’t able to complete the problems correctly. But in the course of trying to do so, they generated a lot of ideas about the nature of the problems and about what potential solutions would look like. And when the two groups were tested on what they’d learned, the second group “significantly outperformed” the first.”

- Why Floundering Is Good

Trying to figure something out on your own before getting help actually produces better results than having guidance from the beginning

By ANNIE MURPHY PAUL

http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/25/why-floundering-is-good/#ixzz1tVhunInD

Shore Thing // SBSB do Bundanon pt 2

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Shore Thing // SBSB do Bundanon pt 2

Dear my lovely niece, How is it that you inspire me one moment...

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Dear my lovely niece,

How is it that you inspire me one moment by hugging me and saying you love me. Then the next moment I’d filled with dread as “no, leave me alone. I’m not talking to you.” flows from your lips. Well ah lass those are the truths of arriving home in Wangaratta for a stop over on route to Melbourne.

Family. Either of blood or spirit bring joy and wall breaking dread moment to moment.

Much love,

Your uncle.

photos: Max Milne

Back to Reality

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Horizon/ grey gum/ wombat/ mossy rock/ sandy shore/ echo chamber/ ampitheatre/ canopy/ bull in field / dirt track/ mud under foot/ squelchy boot/ early morning/ dark dinner/ windy road/ front gate/ neighbour’s fence/ signpost/ bitumen road/ dotted line/ speed limit/ traffic/ roadhouse/ roadtrain/ cow on truck/ advertisement/ portaloo/ paid lunch/ smooth ride/ counting down/ highway patrol/ airport/ sky road/ headlight/ lights ahead/ fast food suburb/ highway’s end/ defined block/ street map/ sprawling grid/ adjoining house /red light/ neon/ shop front/ immediacy/ mass/ choice/ train/ tram/ bike/ cab/ car/ horn honking at the out-of-towner (“I’m sorry but I’ve been in paradise for a week and it’s taking me a little while to adjust back to this reality we have built”)/ last turn/ crowded street/ cement carpark/ empty house/ home.

Dear Brother from another Mother, I miss you. But really we are...

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Dear Brother from another Mother,

I miss you. But really we are having enough fun here without you. The Boat is happy and boy now we are dancing. Life on the long road is fun.

Over and out.

Max

Quote of the day:

On Veggie Dogs. “Doesn’t it come from Soya off cuts?”

Photos by GH

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Photos by GH

Building Bridges

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There is a strange sensation that comes about with something like this, a ‘creative development’.

I feel like it should be called an ‘emotional development’, or I should tell people I’m embarking on a week of ‘emotional creativity’!

I find myself connecting with a bull in the field, or being moved by a joey playing with her mother, or the yellow leaf that sticks to the top of my shoe with the autumn dew. Eager to connect, I hone my listening skills and get lost in the stories, skills and conversations of the people around me, and yet I notice I am also retreating further and further into myself; a communal hibernation. Reaching out and reaching in.

My task was to brush up on bridges. I learnt a thing or two about dead loads and forces, arches and suspension and the pros and cons of iron v steel.

But while I can appreciate architecture for its beauty, I am unwilling to invest in learning about it as a science, or mathematical equation, or to study the specific way you construct these magic stepping stones. For me, it is not its engineering that is of most interest, but the energy it generates when it is in place. What is a bridge? Just an overpass? What is it about bridges that have captured people’s imaginations and defined cities throughout the ages? Such pride comes from a bridge! They are an example of functionality and art combining to create a piece of infrastructure that can be more than just a road over water, but can enhance the environment in which it is transgressing. Creativity meeting Practicality. Aesthetic meeting Efficiency. A bridge is already a bridge.

The always reliable Dictionary.com page says that a bridge is two things :

1. a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.

2. a connecting, transitional, or intermediate route or phase between two adjacent elements, activities, conditions, or the like:

A structure and a route. Stability and journey. You cross a bridge, you bridge the gap. It represents division and also unity. I live on the other side of the bridge to you/ I will meet you on the bridge.

Its mystique comes in its impossibility. How is it possible to build it, cross it, reach the other side without it falling apart?

The structure itself symbolises all these things for us too. How can I do the things I want to, get to the place I want to be; what if I fall in a heap along the way?

Through reading books on bridges I learned one thing tonight: it is a slow process, this bridge building. It takes time and effort to get to the other side. Whether it be by wood or cement or stone, there are factors that come into play – external and internal – that will define the kind of bridge you build, the kind of life you make. It unfolds stone by stone, plank by plank, step by step.

I think it would be rad if we gave people the chance to take the time they need to start building and crossing their own bridge, one dance move at a time.

PH x