SAMUEL JAMES

White Lies (Katina Olsen) photo Gabriel Cormerford This mini festival which included three works, White Lies, Public Property and Territory by Guts Dance worked with dancers from across Australia in a central Australian/Arrende meeting point for artists a…

Box of Birds / Stalker invited me to work on educational catering company Indigiearth's latest food experience, WARAKIRRI (to grow) for VIVID Sydney 2026.

Murtala in Gelambang Raya Between two projects, Sisa-Sisa and Garrigarrang Badu, bookending Sydney Festival, I was in a three month, 7 days a week process leaping between morphing oil and water animations on perspex, building bamboo and dyed screens, rigg…

For two weeks, performer and artist WeiZen Ho and I were based in the Rex Cramphorne Studio, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney, exploring the tentative nature of performance video making.

Sometimes a project takes six years to develop and sometimes it is never finished because it is a continuing cultural practice.

GAPU NGUPAN I was very privileged to have ten days to film and design projections in Taiwan and a week in North East Arnhem Land, guided by traditional owners from each country for the large scale project GAPU NGUPAN (Chasing the Rainbow), produced by Kath

Inspired by Carl Sagan’s words on the perspective of the Earth from the Voyager in 1990 “There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceit than this distant image of our tiny world” Box of Birds / Stalker conceived a multi faceted, 8…

DRAWSPACE Group show in Newtown curated by Gary Warner and Amanda Solomons.

SWIM, directed by Andrea James with lead performer Dani Sibosado and writer Ellen Van Neerven.

Tyrel Dulvarie - The Other Side of Me I was invited by NT Dance Company to film in East Arnhem Land and make projections for an existing dance work (The Other Side of Me, choreographer Gary Lang) on a young Aboriginal boy stolen by a foster family to Engl…

At The End of The Land - Talya Rubin These three words connect to the last three projects; AT THE END OF THE LAND (PICA Premiere, Talya Rubin), PREPARING GROUND (HOTA industry showing, Blakdance with Marilyn Miller, Katina Olsen and Jasmin Sheppard) and C…

Energy Reticulations, an artist commission from the City of Canada Bay on display at the Digital Gallery at The Connection Rhodes where I researched and mapped the pathways of renewable electricity supply from macro to micro scale of regional NSW, to grea…

A residency at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Trondheim, offering a blissful experiment for 6 weeks on the second floor of Mellomveien St - “the middle way”.

There is the original, sensory Dream, only the person who dreamt it knows, then there is the telling of it, how to put it in words and what is missing in words and what can’t be expressed, then the translation of those words in an artist's interpretation…

Oigåll Projects, Gertrude St Projection Festival ~ Panic Embrace is the work originally made for Blik Blik, modified for Oigåll Projects - now in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, 122 Gertrude at Fitzroy Melbourne, Wurungeri country.

Taking time out at BigCi in February (Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives) to work on refined animation of natural forms, developing the concept of a fool's paradise by taking objects from their natural habitat and turning them into anthr…

A remote, three channel video projection project with new wave Korean musicians, Noreum Machi on their new work Heoteun Sori: Corea until Now presented on February 27 at the National Theatre Of Korea.

A dance film with GOGI Dance Collective (Alicia Harvie, Ashleigh White and Viviane Frehner) based in the Gold Coast and commissioned by the Bleach Festival (PLACEMAKERS - Rosie Dennis).

"Annabelle - HD video still" There is what gets seen in art and what audiences don’t know about the process it took to get there.

Sonic Sites, Bundanon Trust (May 2021) Pre-lockdown in NSW we squeezed in two quick projects; SONIC SITES at Bundanon Trust with Ensemble Offspring and MY BOVINE HEART with performer Regina Heilmann at University of Wollongong.

SYDNEY FESTIVAL 2021 - Wesley Enoch's final Sydney Festival.

Conceived by performance maker Alan Schacher with WeiZen Ho, Katia Molino, Philip Mills and others, SKELTER SHELTER was a video experiment made with the assistance of the Blue Mountains City of Arts Trust exploring the picnic rock shelters in Katoomba whi…

De Quincey Co: Para Parra 2020 Though it seems like hardly any live performance has been made in 2020, it has been one of the busiest in contingency planning and re-modelling.

PANIC EMBRACE, made for BLIK BLIK 2020 festival in the Czech Republic metamorphosed into a 360VR work during the lockdown (see link below) after a successful installation in DEPO2015 Pilsen.

Brian Fuata in Latai Taumoepeau's LAU MANU (2021) 360 VR tests with Carlos Gomes (Theatre Kantanka) supported by Create NSW 360 Vision to experiment with VR in the doco-animation form, researching different recollections and experiences of migrants and st…

A retrospective of some of the video drawing works I have made over the last few years on artist residencies, beginning with the phenomena of Iceland’s everyday activities (2015) to cubist/fracturing of space/time in Czech Republic (2018) to the blind exp…