Suzon Fuks

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Suzon Fuks is an internationaly recognised intermedia artist, choreographer and director exploring the integration and interaction of dance and moving image through performance, screen, installation and online work. Current recipient of an Australian council Fellowship she focuses on screendance and networked performance. Suzon current work Water-Wheelis an online open forum space for artist for works of all kinds dedicated to water.

Suzon Fuks, international Belgium born muti-media artist, is the founder of Waterwheel, an on-line platform dedicated to water as a topic and metaphor. Born in Belgium, Fuks trained in dance, theatre and music at [Lilian Lambert Academy Lillian Lambert École de la Danse|Lilian Lambert Academy(]69-‘76), she completed her Masters in Visual Arts at La Cambre (‘79-‘84). She has been directing for both stage and screen since 1985, directing 14 movement-based intermedia performances, created film/video-scenography/installation for 19 productions, directed and edited 19 films and videos including 13 screen-dances. She received a Green Room Award for Video-Scenography in Theatre (New Form). Her screendance fragmentation^[1] was ReelDance finalist, nominated for an Australian Dance on film awardand screened in all continents. Fuks created the film part of the groundbreaking show ‘The Strange Mr Knight’, which toured the world for 5 years (87-92, Adelaide Festival 1990). Moving to Australia in ‘96, she has been co-artistic director of intermedia performance company Igneous since ’97.

She gives lectures, workshops, master classes and labs in Australia, USA, and Europe on the integration of visual media and the performing arts, fostering intermedia artistic collaboration. Mentored in ‘03 by Keith Armstrong (artist)Kelli Dipple ^[2] and Mike Stubbs on networked performance under an Austrailian council national media arts grant. She continued her research in that field developing and performing in the ’07-‘10 Upstage Festivals,Backyard Dances for Electromog festival10; Live,media and performance lab^[3] and participated in ‘10 at EMPAC, NY.^[4] at EMP. She is a founding member of cyberformance group ActiveLayers (UK, NZ, Aus).^[5] She organised the Brisbane node of DIAL ‘08, a streaming event connecting 5 cities around the world, and organized & coordinated with 8 cities Tank Man Tango streaming ‘09. She has participated in numerous presentations about networked performance – ‘08: DIMEA, Createc seminar, CreateWorld; ‘09: SCANZ; ‘10: Syneme, linux.conf.au, WDA NY, CineDans. Her work has been sited in publications including ‘Excited Atoms,^[6] virtual mobility in contemporary arts’ by Judith Staines & Ghislaine Boddington, and 'INTERNET E TEATRO' by Francesco Buonaiuto

Igneous is the collaborative idea of Fuks and James Cunningham. They began work in 1997 creating multimedia movement based performances for the stage, screen and many other spaces, they also work with documentary photography as well as conducting forums, masterclasses and workshops.

Igneous state that there interest lie in process, interaction, diversity and challenging values and with international residences which allows them to collaborate more freely with artist from many different areas of study.^{[citation needed]} These included Brisbane Powerhouse, Department of performance studies at The University of Sydney,^[7] Australian choreographic Centre in Canberra,^[8], Dance4 Nottingham^[9] University of Brighton and as far Kochi (India) where they worked with Asialink.^{[citation needed]}

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