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PART The installation has been designed as a web of design worlds where the visitor can bring their own experiences and engage with individual thoatro designer's philosophy and process.The visitor's presence will transform each individual designer's space into a labyrinth. The visitors are enticed to create their own personal narrative formed through memory, anticipation and the trails the visitor loft behind. PART is designed to be an active experience of the theatre design process. The installation is a theatre event whoro tho rolos of audience, designer and performer are interchanged; where boundaries can open towards collaborations that parallol and inhabit the world. PART is a reflection of New Zealand theatre design of the last five years through individual philosophy and process.

Autoři návrhu/Authors of the conception: Helen Todd. Tracey Collins

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Amy Wright

* 1974, Dunedin
Additional information: She is educated in Visual Arts, Sculpture, Intermedia and time basod arts. Sho works as freelance dosignor and visual artist. Thoatro design for hor is about transforming a mental concopt Into a sonsory oxporionco, which mobi-lises the audience into a stato of Invention by awakening the senses and transporting tho audience along a journey of sensory eloquence and dlscovory.
• Bryan Caldwell

* 1968, Great Britain
Specialization: lighting designer
Additional information: He is lighting designer based in Auckland since 1988. He uses light to toll stories. His story telling has extended beyond theatre lighting into installations that have explored the ability of design eloments to create performance energy without performers; and into tho conception of dynamic intermedia productions such as the opera spectacle Viva Vordi! with Tracey Collins. His Viewing Box is an experiential construction where the participants view their reflection as it is transmuted by the dynamic interplay of light and shadow. This combines the theatrical positions of audience and actor into a concurrent subjective experience and also demonstrates the storytelling abilities of light.
• Elizabeth Whiting

* 1951, Welington
Specialization: costume designer
Additional information: Currently operating a costume design and construction company which provides costume for NBR New Zealand, Auckland Theatre Company and others.
• Helene Todd

* 1957, London
Specialization: lighting designer
Additional information: She works as freelance light designer, graduated from Auck-land University. She studied music and English literature. Operates in light design as a collaborative performance medium and teaches at Te Whaea (National Dance and Drama Centre) and at the Victoria University of Wellington (Department of Theatre and Film). Also works as tutor at universities. In 1999 she was co-commissioner and co-designer for the New Zealand exhibit at PQ and she was awarded the UNESCO Prize. Her work is particularly concerned with the event that occurs between the performing body and light and how this defines the space of performance.
• Sue Gallagher

* 21.12.1973
Specialization: architect, teacher, media artist, scenographer, Artist, Exhibition Designer
Education: MA Scenography Distinction Central St Martins, BArch First Class Hons Auckland University
Teaching activities: Head of Postgraduate, School of Art & Design, AUT University
Participation in other important exhibitions: Co-curator, New Zealand exhibition “Blow” PQ07; curator, Glitch Performance and Media Arts Event, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland (2009); curator, Live Repeat Playback, St Paul St Gallery Auckland (2010)
Additional information: She graduated from Central St. Martins (Scenography) and Auckland University (Architecture). She works as a lecturer in spatial design at the Auckland University of Technology, as a theatre designer, and installation artist. Her oxhibit called "Wake" places tho viowor somewhere botween submerged and elevated realities. "Wake" is an installation work which investigates the theatrical event of entering and exiting, the disturbanco those events causo and then the re-establishment of calm similar to evonts in her design process. Sue Gallagher is head of the Postgraduate Department, Senior Lecturer in the Spatial Design Department, School of Art & Design, AUT University; co-ordinator of CoLab: MAP Media Arts & Performance research group; New Zealand Commissioner for 2011 Prague Quadrennial: Performance Design and Space (National, Theatre Architecture and Student Sections): Co-Curator of NZ National Exhibition with Tracey Collins. Sue’s research and teaching investigates performative environments, including installation, exhibition design, moving image and spatial design. Sue’s research practice explores performance as a platform that transgresses many art forms. It is her understanding from training as an architect and performance designer that spaces are not static and fixed creations, but subtle, communicative and transformative. Performance, installation, video and other scenographic works have been exhibited in the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Japan, Czech Republic, Canada and New Zealand.
• Tracey Collins

Specialization: set designer, costume designer, Production Designer, Artist
Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, Univeristy of Auckland
Collaboration with theatres: Auckland Theatre Company. Massive Theatre Company
Teaching activities: Lecturer in interdisciplinary studio, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (1996-2006); tutor in spatial design, AUT University (2002, 2006)
Continuing collaboration with directors: Simon Bennett. Mike Mizrahi. Samantha Scott.
Awards: NZ Chapman Trip Awards for Best Costume Design (2002;) NZ Qantas Screen Awards for Best Production Design in TV (2009); NZ Qantas Screen Awards for Best Costume Design in TV (2007); Moet and Chandon Artists International Residency
Additional information: She graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (B.F.A.) She works as a freelance production and costume designer for theatre, contemporary dance, opera, event and spectacles. Regularly collaborates with theatre companies: Inside Out Productions, Massive Company, and the New Zealand Actors Company. She is a visual artist working with and exploring aspects of installation. She collaborates regularly with Bryan Caldwell, lighting designer. She also works as a lecturer in 3-D Design in Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. Her exhibit called "Feeling Seeing" is an active installation that embodies the ideas, philosophies and processes of her work over the last four years. Exploring the following: What is performance energy? Can performance occur without a performer? Can multidisciplinary design tell the ,storý in performance and create abstract narrative that engages the audience?
• Mark McEntyre

* 21.11.1960, Christchurch
Specialization: set designer
Education: BFA (Honours), Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Cantebury
Collaboration with theatres: Auckland Theatre Company, Christchurch Arts Festival
Teaching activities: Programme Leader, Bachelor of Performing Arts, School of Art & Design, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology
Continuing collaboration with directors: Roy Ward, Shona McCullagh
Additional information: Stage designer and sculptor. In 1991 he graduated from ILAM School of Fine Art, Canterbury University. Christchurch. He temporarily works as a ecturer in design, 3-D design, stage, film, TV design and as a freelance designer. Currently he co-operates with Canterbury Opera Company and Taki Rua Theatre and works as lecturer in 3- Dimensional Studies at Christchurch Polytechnic of New Zealand. He received UNESCO Prize on PQ in 1999.
• Tony De Goldi

Specialization: set designer
Education: BDes (Interiors) Victoria University, Wellington.
Collaboration with theatres: Taki Rua Theatre
Teaching activities: Senior Lecturer in Design, WelTec, Wellington
Additional information: He is the senior lecturer of Design at Wellington Institute of Technology, currently researching tho influences of 'land-scape' within New Zealand theatre design looking particularly at the historical notions of a colonized natural landscape, the built landscape and the influences on domesticity. In many ways the two presented plays create a cyclic reading of New Zealand identity. Bruce Mason pioneered the way for a future generation of writers to develop work from a local perspective. His interest lies in exploring the 'land-scapes' of his own cultural experience. He exhibited at PQ in 1995, 1996. Text to the PQ'15 Catalogue: Set costume and properties designer for the past 20 years. Predominantly works in contemporary Maori Theatre.
• Tracy Grant Lord (Tracy Grant)

* 1961, New Zealand
Specialization: set designer, costume designer
Education: Bachelor of Spatial Design, AUT University, Auckland
Collaboration with theatres: Sydney Theatre Co, Auckland Theatre Company, Singapore Dance Theatre, Australian Opera, Australian Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet
Participation in other important exhibitions: WSD Toronto 2005
Continuing collaboration with directors: Pamela Rabe, Simon Phillips, Raymond Hawthorne, Colin McColl, Gary Harris, Janek Schergen
Awards: Winston Churchill Award (1987); Olivier Nomination (UK) 2004
Additional information: Tracy Grant Lord is a leading stage designer of theatre, opera and ballet. Her career began serving a 10 year design apprenticeship at the Mercury Theatre (Auckland) and since then she has worked as a freelance designer with the major performance companies throughout Australasia. She is a Winston Churchill Fellow, has a Bachelor of Spatial Design from Auckland University of Technology and her work has been chosen to represent performance design in New Zealand, at the Prague Quadrennial (Czech Republic) in 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2007. She was also selected to exhibit at the World Stage Design exhibition in Toronto (Canada) in 2005. Highlights of her work include the acclaimed Royal New Zealand Ballet’s 50th Anniversary production of Romeo and Juliet, which premiered at Sadlers Wells in London in 2004. This production then went on to receive an Olivier Award nomination for Best New Dance Production in the UK in 2005. Recent projects include “In The Next Room” (2011) for Sydney Theatre Company, “Sleeping Beauty” (2010) for Singapore Dance Theatre, “Oliver!” (2009) and “Le SUD” (2010) for Auckland Theatre Company and a new festival opera work “Electric” (2011).
• Martyn Roberts

* 1966
Specialization: lighting designer
Additional information: Since 1995 he has been designing light for theatre and dance and also worked with the Scottish group 'Boilerhouse in Edinburgh. He has his own theatre company 'afterburner. Educated at Victoria University in Wellington, he teach-es there and at other schools of Drama in New Zealand. His installation, called "Line Near" is the expression of the New Zealand landscape as a visual environment of constant change. "Line Near" is a theatre of randomness.