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 as well as international histories 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 Bridget and Joseph created Project Auske to empower themselves and others to make possible and impossible artistic work with scope, meaning, and impact.
This Creative House
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.
We lead and partner on creative projects that support collaboration between artists and organisations, including from the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Pakistan, and more. 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.
We develop, empower, and house: the collaborative and individual artistic projects of Fiske and Lau; models for creative research, workshopping, and facilitating artistic practices and creative experiences; resourcefulness, knowledge, and skills; and project management and curation initiatives.
Our projects reach people in imagined spaces, virtual spaces, living spaces, overlooked spaces, popular spaces, temporary spaces, green spaces, and more.
We have created, produced and facilitated: public space, theatre and festival works; immersive participatory audio installations and radio plays; moving image works; choreographic laboratories and new work platforms; international artistic exchanges; coaching and mentoring; and workshops and masterclasses.
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.
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.
What We Do
We work, collaborate and deliver across the following areas. Be in touch to explore ways of working together, or engaging with our activities.
Find out more about our creative projects, collaborations and initiatives here...
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. This delivery is informed by Bridget and Joseph's over 20 years experience as respected facilitators.
Mentorship
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.
People & Partners
Collaborators & Partners
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Contact
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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