Artists

Jody Kingston

JODY KINGSTON (Brisbane) in collaboration with PAUL COOPER (Brisbane) presents "LULLABY FOR ROBOTS" -- a sound-driven performance of an imaginary world inhabited by the two robots.

Jody Kingston is a Brisbane-based composer/ sound artist and researcher currently working on a PhD in sound/ music and interdisciplinary performance-making at QUT. Her practice focuses on the creation of sound for live performance pieces or events that work with fundamental performance elements of energy, presence and gesture. She is drawn to intimate styles of presentation where audience and performer relationships are intermixed, blurred or informal such as cabaret, street performance and circus and also to ritual spaces where the audience/ performer roles are transgressed such as dance-party contexts.

Jody moved to Brisbane in 2003 after spending seven years in Tasmania, where she studied composition at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music. Since 2000 Jody's musical practice has grown to incorporate performance-making in devised and improvised theatre contexts as well as developing solo and collaborative installation-based works. In 2002, she worked as Venue Manager for is theatre ltd to establish is@backspace as Hobart's dedicated contemporary performance venue. Jody continued to train, perform and produce work and became a founding member of Hobart-based improvised performance ensemble Red Message Service.