[Type text] 1 Martyn Coutts Curriculum Vitae 2013
Martyn Coutts Web: www.martyncoutts.com Email: zero@martyncoutts.com Phone: +61 415 980 837 EDUCATION Secondary - Hutchins School, Hobart Postgraduate Postgraduate Diploma in Performance Making, Victorian Arts Centre COMPANIES/GROUPS/COLLECTIVES Blood Policy (Martyn Coutts and Sam Routledge) 2005-Present Aphids (Company of contemporary artists) 2012- Present Deadpan (Martyn Coutts and Willoh S. Weiland) 2008-Present Field Theory (Collective of contemporary artists) 2008-Present LALA (Editor of Live Art online newspaper) 2009- Present WORKS Bazaar (Ian Pidd, Sam Routledge and Martyn Coutts - Footscray Market, Melbourne) 2013 I Think I Can (Blood Policy - Federation Square, Melbourne) 2012-2013 The Family Show (Aphids - Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart) 2012 Sovereign (Martyn Coutts Westspace Gallery, Melbourne) 2012 SAC35 (Martyn Coutts, Sam Routledge and Ian PIdd - Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart (35 th Anniversary Project) 2012 Computer Boy (Blood Policy Performance Space, Sydney) 2012 Thrashing Without Looking (Aphids - Performance Space, Arts House, Mobile States Australian Tour, Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart, Darwin, Perth) 2009 2012 Martyn Coutts - Curriculum Vitae 2013
Durational Lattes (Field Theory Performance Space) 2011 Wayfarer Version 3 Global Agents (Martyn Coutts and Kate Richards - Melbourne) 2010-2011 Visible City (Keynote project of Melbourne Fringe) 2010 If You Look West South West You Will See Me (Deadpan - Sub12 Substation Installation, Melbourne) 2010 Options for Anonymous Death (Deadpan - Asialink Residency, Beijing, China) 2010 Wayfarer Version 2 Urban Agents (Martyn Coutts and Kate Richards - Arts Centre, Melbourne) 2008-2010 Field Theory (Art Collective) 2008 Current I Made You What You Are (Deadpan - ANZ Australian Film Festival, Beijing, China) 2009 Don t Speak To Me Like That (Deadpan - Performance Space, Sydney) 2009 Gameshow (Melbourne performance art collective) 2009 Just Another Face In The Crowd (Deadpan - Tiny Stadiums Festival, Sydney) 2009 I Need A Place To Rest (Deadpan - The Mapping Room, Head Quarters, Melbourne) 2009 11 Remixed (Martyn Coutts, Head Quarters, Melbourne) 2009 Endgame (Martyn Coutts and Jen Jamieson, CIA Studios, Perth) 2008 Disappearing Acts (Kelly Ryall/Martyn Coutts, Storeroom Theatre, Melbourne, World Theatre Festival, Brisbane) 2008-2012 I Lost You In The Suburbs (Deadpan - National Hybrid Arts Symposium, Perth) 2008 I Want You More Than Anything (Electrofringe, Newcastle) 2008 Degrade (Martyn Coutts, 3 screen video installation, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan) 2006 I/Land (Martyn Coutts and Bec Reid, 2 channel live video and dance work, TAV, Taiwan) 2006 Bunker (Martyn Coutts, 2 channel video and performance work, TAV, Taiwan) 2006 Operation (Blood Policy, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne /Full Tilt, the Victorian Arts Centre, Martyn Coutts Curriculum Vitae 2013
Melbourne/IS THEATRE, Backspace, Hobart) 2005-2007 VJ m_zero (Martyn Coutts, various venues around Launceston, Melbourne, Perth and Hobart) 2005-2010 Wayfarer Version 1(Martyn Coutts/Kate Richards - Performance Space, Sydney) 2004-2007 Interdepend (Martyn Coutts and Sarah Jane Pell - Perth) 2005 Inside (Martyn Coutts and Grace Walpole - Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne) 2004 Loading Zone, (Tricky Walsh and Martyn Coutts - Next Wave Festival, Melbourne) 2004 DRAMATURGY The Psychology Project (Liesel Zink - Brisbane) 2013 On Your Marks (Stompin - Ten Days on the Island Festival, Launceston) 2013 Slow Dances for Fast Times (Martin Del Amo, Carriageworks) 2011-2013 Public (Tamara Saulwick) 2012-2013 Ensemble (Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey) 2012 fifteen (Liesel Zink, Next Wave Festival, Brisbane Festival) 2011-2012 Now Now Now (Luke George, Dance Massive, Noorderzon Festival, The Netherlands, Oktoberdans Norway, Sandnes Kulturhus, Norway) 2010-2012 Venus Devotional (Brooke Stamp, Next Wave Festival) 2010 FUN RUN (Tristan Meecham, Next Wave Festival) 2010 Orbit score for Yoko (Brooke Stamp, Pieces for Small Spaces, Lucy Guerin) 2009 Aurland (Michelle Whelan project, winner of Melbourne Fringe Best Music category) 2009 Reverb (Brooke Stamp, Martin Del Amo, Melbourne Fringe) 2009 Citizen (Stompin) 2005 NEW MEDIA FOR THEATRE AND DANCE Game Show (Tristan Meecham and Aphids) 2013 FUN RUN (Tristan Meecham and Aphids, Sydney Festival) 2013 Martyn Coutts - Curriculum Vitae 2013
EXIT (Tania Bosak, MONA FOMA) 2013 Ensemble (Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn, Melbourne) 2013 House of Dreaming (Arena Theatre Company - Melbourne International Arts Festival, Perth Festival, Brisbane Festival, Auckland Arts Festival) 2009-2013 24 HOURS (Jo Lloyd, Dancehouse, Melbourne) 2010 Apocalypse Bear Trilogy (Stuck Pigs Squealing, Melbourne International Arts Festival) 2009 Now Now..Now. (Luke George, Melbourne Dancehouse and Dance Massive) 2009 The Harry Harlow Project (The Arts Centre, Melbourne, Mobile States Australian Tour, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Sydney) 2009 2011 Let s Get It Strait (Tasdance, Ten Days on The Island Festival, King and Flinders Islands, Tasmania) 2009 King Lear (Victorian College of the Arts) 2008 LIFE SIZE (Chunky Move Melbourne, Next Wave Festival Melbourne, PICA Perth, Dance Massive, Melbourne) 2007-2009 GO Show (Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne) 2006 Passport to Happiness (IS THEATRE, Ten Days on the Island Festival, tour of four venues Tasmania) 2005 Mine (Bec Reid and Martyn Coutts, Blackwater, Queensland) 2005 PERFORMER FOR THEATRE AND DANCE Rider Spoke (Blast Theory, Sydney) 2009 Black (Anna Tregloan and Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne) 2008 Reform (pvi collective, Melbourne) 2007 The Things You Cannot Know (Vanessa Pigrum, Victorian College of the Arts) 2006 TTS: Route 30 (pvi collective, Melbourne) 2005 Contemptuous Perplexity (Anna Tregloan, Chunky Move Studios, Melbourne) 2004 Colour My World (Salamanca Theatre Company, Bluebird International Childrens Festival, Seoul, Korea) 2003 Freezer (Is Theatre, City Hall, Hobart) 2001 Martyn Coutts Curriculum Vitae 2013
Inch Boy (Salamanca Theatre Company, statewide tour of Tasmania)1999 Slam Dunk (Salamanca Theatre Company, statewide tour of Tasmania) 1999 Colour My World (Salamanca Theatre Company, statewide tour of Tasmania) 1999 Pop Up Book (Salamanca Theatre Company, statewide tour of Tasmania) 1998 Reality Check (Salamanca Theatre Company, statewide tour of Tasmania) 1998 RESIDENCIES/CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA/LABS Taipei Residency, 2011 Bundandon Residency (with Aphids) in NSW 2011 Asialink grant (with Deadpan) to Theatre In Motion, Beijing, China 2009/10 Aotearoa Digital Arts symposium, Wellington, NZ 2009 This is the time this is the record of the time symposium, (pvi collective) Perth 2008 Australia Council Grant for Independent residency (CIA), Perth 2008 Electrofringe residency and artist talk, Newcastle 2008 Residency for Wayfarer Version 1, Performance Space, Sydney 2007 SITI company Melbourne lab, Melbourne 2007 Artist in Residence (Footscray Community Arts Centre) Melbourne 2006 Australia/China Council residency grant to Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan 2006 RAW space gallery residency, Brisbane 2005 Regional Arts Tasmania grant to attend Raw Space residency Performance Space residency for Wayfarer Version 1, Cleveland Street, Sydney 2005 Time_Place_Space_3, hybrid performance laboratory, Adelaide 2004 Transmediale Festival, Berlin 2004 AWARDS Martyn Coutts - Curriculum Vitae 2013
Green Room nomination for Mise en Scene (Thrashing Without Looking) in the Alternative and Hybrid Category 2011 Green Room winner for Best Video Design (Harry Harlow Project) in the Alternative and Hybrid Category 2009 Ars Electronica shortlist for best production for Wayfarer in the 2008 Prix GRANTS Creative Australia Grant for I Think I Can (Blood Policy), 2012 Australia Council Inter-Arts Grant for Trouble in Paradise (Aphids), 2012 Vic Health TASC grant for Wayfarer Version 3, 2010 Australia Council Inter-Arts Office grant for production of Wayfarer Version 2 at the Victorian Arts Centre 2009 Arts Victoria grant for production of season of Operation at the Arts Centre Melbourne 2007 Australia Council Inter Arts Office grant for production of Wayfarer at Performance Space, 2007 Arts Victoria grant for production of Operation at the Next Wave Festival 2006 City of Melbourne grant for production of Operation at the Next Wave Festival 2006 Arts Tasmania New Media grant for development of Interdepend with Sarah Jane Pell in Perth 2005 Australia Council Theatre Board grant for development of Wayfarer version 1 at Performance Space, 2005 Australia Council Theatre Board grant for production of Loading Zone at Next Wave Festival 2004 Australia Council Dance Board Grant to attend the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2003 Arts Tasmania grant for production of improvisation workshops by Andrew Morrish 2002 BOARDS/PANELS Supermassive Management Committee (Aphids 2012 Current) Next Wave Festival Board 2012 - Current Martyn Coutts Curriculum Vitae 2013
Arts Victoria Community Partnerships Panel 2011- Current HyPe Panel Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart 2011- Current Housemate VI Residency Panel, Dancehouse, Melbourne 2010 Outside Eye Mentorship Panel, Melbourne Fringe, 2010 Inter-Arts Panel, Australia Council member Australia Council 2010-2011 Green Room Hybrid and Alternative Panel, Melbourne 2009-2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival Judge - Performance and Dance, Melbourne 2008 Punctum, Seed funding panel, Castlemaine, 2008 Next Wave Festival, curatorial committee, Melbourne, 2006 Hobart Fringe Festival Board, Hobart 2002-3, IS THEATRE ltd. Board, Hobart 2002-2003 PRODUCER/EVENTS Program Manager, Next Wave Festival Club, 2010 AV Design/Stage Management Private Dances, Next Wave Festival 2010 Regional Producer, Sweet Work, Mildura, Next Wave Festival 2009 Event Crew, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2008 Event Crew, Malahang Festival, Banyule City Council 2008 Event Crew, Twilight Sounds event, Banyule City Council 2007 Crowd Theory Event, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Producer 2006 WEB www.martyncoutts.com - process weblog including reviews of performance works www.aphids.net - company of artists making projects across borders www.fieldtheory.com.au - collective of Melbourne based hybrid artists www.lalaishere.net - a resource and weblog maintained by me for live artists living in Australia Martyn Coutts - Curriculum Vitae 2013
www.deadpan.net.au - web presence of Deadpan (Martyn Coutts and Willoh S.Weiland) Martyn Coutts Curriculum Vitae 2013