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Martyn Coutts
Curriculum Vitae
2013
Martyn Coutts
Web: www.martyncoutts.com
Email: [email protected]
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) 2012Present
Deadpan (Martyn Coutts and Willoh S. Weiland)
2008-Present
Field Theory (Collective of contemporary
artists) 2008-Present
LALA (Editor of Live Art online newspaper) 2009Present
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 (35th 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
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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,
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Melbourne/IS THEATRE, Backspace, Hobart) 20052007
VJ m_zero (Martyn Coutts, various venues around
Launceston, Melbourne, Perth and Hobart) 20052010
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
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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
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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
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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
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Arts Victoria Community Partnerships Panel 2011Current
HyPe Panel Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart 2011Current
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
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www.deadpan.net.au - web presence of Deadpan
(Martyn Coutts and Willoh S.Weiland)
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