What is the Live Art Garden Initiative and what are they doing out in the garden in any case?
6 Jan 2007 12:00
Marnie McKee
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Performing Arts
The Live Art Garden Initiative is a trans-disciplinary arts project supported by the Networking Artists’ Networks Initiative (NAN) through a-n The Artist Information Company. It consists of a collection of independent site-specific projects, focusing on gardens and landscaped sites and involving the creation of new garden environments in which site-specific live arts will be established.
Marnie McKee currently lives in London. In the mid-90’s she co-founded ToyBox Circus staging fire and light shows and art installations Australia-wide. Marnie co-produced two major Bodyweather-based works with dancer/director Leah Grycewicz. They toured Pre-Millenium Drinks across Australia (1998); and staged Stratus999, a 3-month site-specific multi-media dance project involving 8 international artists, in Cairns, Queensland. Marnie studied Bodyweather as part of Tess de Quincey’s Sydney-based dance company (1999-2001). In March 2004, Marnie settled in London and has since concentrated on establishing Bodyweather training in London, with dancer/teacher Rachel Sweeney. Together they have worked as AnonAnon, researching and creating interactive performance for site-based work (ranging from nightclub to national park) using immersive, inhabitational and durational tools. Congruently, Marnie has been training with and performing for Stuart Lynch (of Holberg School) in Oslo and London, and more recently, training with Frank van de Ven of Bodyweather Amsterdam in Holland and France.
