biography

Suzon Fuks - image from "RING #2" video

SUZON FUKS is an internationally recognized 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 Australia Council Fellowship, she focuses on screendance and networked performance.

Born in Brussels, trained in dance, theatre & music at Lilian Lambert Academy (‘69-‘76), she completed her Masters in Visual Arts at La Cambre (‘79-‘84).  Moving to Australia in ‘96, she has been co-artistic director of intermedia performance company IGNEOUS since ’97.

She has directed 14 movement-based intermedia performances, created film/video-scenography/installation for 19 productions, directed and edited 19 films and videos including 13 screendances.  She received numerous awards for her films, videos, solo performance shows, including Green Room Award for Video-Scenography in Theatre (New Form). Her screendance FRAGMENTATION was ReelDance finalist, nominated for an Australian Dance on Film Award and screened in all continents.  She created the film part of the groundbreaking show ‘The Strange Mr Knight’, which toured the world for 5 years (87-92, Adelaide Festival 1990).

She gives lectures, workshops, master classes and labs in Australia, USA & Europe on the integration of visual media and the performing arts, fostering intermedia artistic collaboration. Mentored in ‘03 by Keith Armstrong, Kelli Dipple and Mike Stubbs on networked performance under an Australia Council New Media Arts grant, she continued her research in that field developing and performing in the ’07-‘10 UpStage Festivals; Backyard Dances for Electrosmog Festival ‘10; and participated in ‘10 LIVE.MEDIA+PERFORMANCE.LAB at EMPAC, NY.

She is a founding member of cyberformance group ActiveLayers (UK, NZ, Aus). She organised the Brisbane node of DIAL ‘08, a streaming event connecting 5 cities around the world, and organised & coordinated with 8 cities TANKMAN TANGO streaming ‘09. She collaborates with artists from Aus, UK, NZ, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Lebanon, Canada, USA, Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia, HK and India, and 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, virtual mobility in contemporary arts’ by Judith Staines & Ghislaine Boddington, and ‘INTERNET E TEATRO’ by Francesco Buonaiuto.