Project Auske is a creative house of people, ideas, and movement, where art making and sharing are boundless.
Project Auske moves artistic projects and people together to greatly impact the world we are all responsible for and find belonging in.
Project Auske is grounded in the extensive choreographic, dance, movement and performance practices of its founders Bridget Fiske and Joseph Lau.
Celebrating this foundation and prioritising inquiry, Project Auske works at the edges of forms and the co-existence, unity, and intersection of ideas and values.
Project Auske creates through the spectrum of transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary approaches and practices.
After more than 20 years of working and practicing as multi-faceted artists, Fiske and Lau have developed Project Auske to empower themselves and others to make possible and impossible artistic work with a multiplicity of scope, meaning, and impact.
This creative house is an infrastructure built on philosophies, values, dreams, and practices.
Project Auske creates spaces for belonging, risk-taking, revelatory responses, multiplicities, and creative manifestations in order to engage with emergent ideas and issues, the evolution of living, and what most matters, excites, and concerns us.
We work where we are and across the globe, contributing to the development of ideas, people, creativity, place, and art form.
Via self-organisation, partnerships, and collaborations, Project Auske develops, empowers, and houses: the collaborative and individual artistic projects of Fiske and Lau; models for research, workshopping, and facilitating artistic practices and creative experiences; resourcefulness, knowledge, and skills; and project management and curation initiatives .
We have created, produced, curated, collaborated on, and facilitated: public space, outdoor, participation, and festival works; radio plays; moving image works ; choreographic laboratories, and new work platforms; international artistic exchanges; coaching and mentoring; and workshops and masterclasses.
As international artists, and in our dual identity as both Australian and British citizens, we (Bridget Fiske and Joseph Lau of Project Auske) acknowledge the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea, and community. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.
We also acknowledge and pay our respects to First Nations peoples across this blue planet.
This Creative House
Ways
People Places
Our projects reach people in imagined spaces, virtual spaces, living spaces, overlooked spaces, popular spaces, temporary spaces, green spaces, and more.
We invite people to come in, be at our table and engage with ideas and work as stakeholders, partners, collaborators, programmers, contributors, associates, active inquirers, and spectators. We want to celebrate with you, challenge with you, be challenged by you, and create with you.
Local & Global Reach
Informed by the dual nationalities and international histories of its Directors, which have contributed positively to opportunity, understanding, and artistry, Project Auske is an organisation with international priorities, scope, and reach.
Project Auske has to date led and partnered on creative projects that have supported collaboration between artists and organisations from the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Pakistan, and more.
As well as creating and producing live works and activities, Project Auske realises projects of varied modalities and forms that reach audiences via digital platforms (e.g. streaming, broadcast), the licencing of creative resources and works (e.g. to festivals, organisations, artists, educators and communities for re-creation) and publishing,
These international and distributed focuses enable Project Auske to create and partner on projects that engage stakeholders, partners, artists and audiences across the globe.
Within this international scope is a strong commitment to local activity, artists, people, communities, sectors and places. Project Auske is driven to make positive and sustainable contributions and be a part of our collective growth.
What We Do
Creative
Project Auske initiates, partners, collaborates, works, and consults on creative projects locally, nationally, and internationally.
Informed by the imaginative, sensitive, and rigorous practices of Bridget and Joseph, Project Auske can direct, choreograph, facilitate and collaborate on projects across art forms and with varied audiences at their heart.
Facilitation
Project Auske, designs and delivers a range of workshops, development and training experiences for artists, active inquirers, communities, learners and professionals across many sectors.
Some of our activities have included: 'The Compassionate and Resourceful Body' (a one-day Integrative Yoga and Movement Retreat in collaboration with Chanthalah Webster-Tight & Nathan Tight), 'Split-Second' (instant and intense moving and making), '30 Minutes' (a 30-minute injection into your day to connect to your body, creativity, and resourcefulness), Contemporary Dance Classes for adults of all levels and more.
This delivery is informed by Bridget and Joseph's over 20 years experience as respected facilitators. See their biographies for more information.
Mentoring
Bridget and Joseph have been developing practices via: participating in a Guildhall ‘Core Skills in Coaching for Advisors, Mentors, and Teachers’ course, delivering a pilot coaching and mentoring project in partnership with various UK arts organisations, being Mentors for ‘IndepenDANCE’ run by Phluxus2 Dance Collective (Meeanjin/Brisbane, Australia), being Mentors for Artists as part of the OUTBOUND Contemporary Dance and Live Art Festival (Sunshine Coast, Australia), and as Lead Mentor on a new pathways project for emerging Hip Hop Dance Artists as part of Face Festival (UK).
Curation & Producing
Project Auske, curates and produces artistic development activities, creative works, projects, and events, that excite and resonate with participants and audiences.
Resources
Project Auske creates artistic projects, content, and products that reach people where they are. From online choreographic scores, to projects such as 'The Body Of Us' that can be recreated by artists and communities, to written works, to videos about practices, Project Auske is building a library of resources.
Projects
'Agnes' & 'Elephants'
Current/In development
Joseph and Bridget are thrilled to be undertaking research and development on two new works, ‘Elephants’ & ‘Agnes’. This project expands the ways Project Auske works with subjects of environment, ecologies, and community.
Agnes' - an eco-docu fiction ghost story, choreographed, directed and written by Bridget Fiske
'Elephants' - a poetic performance documentary, conceived, directed and choreographed by Joseph Lau
A Project Auske Initiative
'The Great Solar Storm'
Current
An interactive audio & movement installation for young audiences
Explore time portals with your magical radio and leap into the past, present, and future.
Did you hear about The Great Solar Storm that just happened? It has opened time portals all over Cinekid Festival. Grab a magical time traveling radio kit and explore! As you move through the MediaLab, you will hear voices from other times. Listen, follow, and join in! Move like an evolving dinosaur, morph and transform as an element, and communicate with dancing vibrations. Afterwards leave your impressions on the cosmic collage!
Commissioned by Cinekid MedialLab
A Project Auske In Collaboration Project, as part of 'They Gather'
'They Gather'
UK/NL/UK
Current/Ongoing
‘They Gather' is an ongoing international multimodal and interdisciplinary project creating ‘gatherings’ of people, action, dance, sound, and music. These interrelated performances explore the boundaries between audience, participant, and performer in public, festival, and cultural spaces, subsequently creating dialogue with environments, societies, politics, and histories, and creating speculative futurologies.
A Project Auske In Collaboration Project
'An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play'
UK/NL
2020-ongoing
Become immersed in this experiential and genre-blurring new work for solo audiences at home. Your movement, electronic music, and contemporary storytelling unfold, overlap, and transform, creating a new imagining of the very place you are right now.
A Project Auske In Collaboration Project, as part of 'They Gather'
'IMPULSE'
AUS
2024
A performance project for MAD Dance House in Meeanjin (Brisbane).
'The Correspondents'
UK/UA
2021/2022
A moving image research project, co-created by Bridget Fiske & Roman Liubyi.
Produced by Babylon'13 & Project Auske
Supported by the European Union under the House of Europe
A Project Auske In Collaboration Project
ATOM Choreographic Series
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UK/BG
ATOM Choreographic Series is an annual international choreographic development project by ATOM Theatre, Bulgaria.
Project Auske has partnered on this initiative as curators of British artists in to the series, and as Choreographers and Mentors.
'Age of Ledger' Projects
Ongoing
'Age Of Ledger' Projects explores the political, social, moral, and ethical consequences caused by a market-based globalised economy and their effects on the psychology, behaviour, and attitudes of individuals expressed through personal narratives.
A JauArtist Project / Produced by Project Auske
'Never The Foxes'
In development
'Never The Foxes' is a work in development that has grown out of explorations into subjects of origin, orientation, instinct, nature, and death, as well as energetic patterns and pulls, with a focus on the uncanny hunting abilities of foxes.
A Bridget Fiske & Co Project / Produced by Project Auske
'The Body of Us'
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On going
A performed and facilitated project about the simple joy of meeting each other through movement.
A Bridget Fiske & Co Project / Produced by Project Auske
'Viva...' Projects
Ongoing
This series of works (‘VIVA…’, and ‘Viva: Reverb)’ – centres on the human need to connect which is a deep personal undertow for Joseph that he feel makes life worth living. For Joseph, personal relationships are important building blocks of connections, with each of these works containing articulations of friendships, conflicts, liveness within self and with others, and self-identity that highlight both the beauty and the challenges of being with each other. This series of works began in 2012 when commissioned by the EU consortia ‘Dance Channels’ to create a public space work responding to the theme ‘the passage of time’
A JauArtist Project / Produced by Project Auske
'Drawn Together. Drawn Apart'
In development
A dance and fine art collaboration working in a dialogue between the physicality of movement and drawing.
A JauArtist Project / Produced by Project Auske
'Flowers For Asteroids'
2022
With a focus on process, developing a performer’s fiction, ensemble working, as well as studying both joy and a major celestial event as co-existing subjects, ‘Flowers for Asteroids’ is created from the many images, reflections, improvisations, as well as the choreographic material generated by the ensemble.
Directed by Bridget Fiske & Joseph Lau / Project Auske
Choreographic content created by Bridget Fiske & Joseph Lau and the ensemble
Commissioned by University of Salford Dance Department
People & Partners
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Collaborators
MORE COMING SOON
Partners
WE ARE THRILLED TO HAVE BEEN SUPPORTED BY, PARTNERED, AND COLLABORATED WITH THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS
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DR GUNJAN SONDHI / OPEN UNIVERSITY
BABYLON'13
PEI YEE TONG
Credits
Website Design: Bridget Fiske
Photographers and Designers whose work appears on this site: Bridget Fiske, Dartsia Liuba, Eamonn Sweeney - CreativeImageworx, Georgia Brown, Jade Ellis Photography, Joseph Lau, Ivan-Alexander Kyutev, Matt Kowalczuk, Megan Rowland, Mike Park, Stelios Manousakis, Nadia Milford, Peter Hadjikolev, Point Of View Photography, Sammie Williams, SBeausy Photography, Steve Chong, Tamsin Drury, and Victor Isabel Bueno
