David working with ICT’S FIRSTWoRKS writers in 2007

In conjunction with nyid‘s 2-year international exchange with Instant Cafe Theatre on collaborative project ‘The Meaning of Malaysia is Open for Inspection’, David Pledger will be holding 2 evenings of public talks at Instant Cafe’s spanking new art space, CHAI (No. 6, Jalan 6/3, Off Jalan Templer, Petaling Jaya):

My Writing/Kinds of Writing
Wed 26 August 8.30pm

Exploring and developing different genres of writing for live performance and screen-based visual arts practice.

• From Dialogue to Abstract Verse
• Coding for Multimedia Performance
• Writing for installation projects with drama as a central medium.
• Introduction to NYID’s 2008 Melbourne Festival presentation of The Meaning of Moorabbin is Open for Inspection

How To Make Art in the 21st Century
Sat 29 Aug 5.30pm

A lecture-demonstration by David Pledger, introducing the work of Not Yet Its Difficult, theatre company.

• NYID: A company with a performing arts and screen-based visual arts practice
• Past projects of NYID – show videos of the work of NYID
• The processes of making the different works from the point-of-view as a director-designer-writer
• Discuss the way in which projects are laid out
• Talk about multi-media performances: how they require an interdisciplinary approach from conception to creation and presenting

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David Pledger works across media in theatre, dance, opera, television and media arts as a director, producer, film-maker, designer, writer, choreographer, actor and dramaturg.

David has gained wide acclaim for building new artworks that combine body movement, video, sound and special effects into an organic system. He has been particularly interested in merging various genres with “media” to elevate media from the existing role as a simple form of enjoyment to a stimulant that is integrated into the structure and theme of the artwork.

In 2005 his writing was recognised by the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards for Blowback, which was short-listed for the Louis Esson Prize for Drama and the Australian Writers Guild for Eavesdrop for New Media Writing. His design and direction have received more than a dozen nominations in theatre, dance and opera from the Victorian Green Room Awards. He is the recipient of the Sydney Myer Performing Arts Award and the Kenneth Myer Performing Arts Medal and fellowships from the Churchill Memorial Trust and the Australia-Korea Foundation.

He is the founding artistic director and producer of not yet it’s difficult (nyid). Formed in 1995, nyid is one of Australia’s leading contemporary arts companies producing original performance works, public space projects, play productions, installations, experimental video and television.

Supported by the Australian High Commission and the Australia Malaysia Institute