Project Auske is 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.
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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.
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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.
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​​​This creative house is an infrastructure built on philosophies, values, dreams, and practices.
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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.
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We work where we are and across the globe, contributing to the development of ideas, people, creativity, place, and art form. ​
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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 ​​​.
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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
“They Gather...has the potential to encapsulate global politics and humanity's empathy in intimate and bespoke site activations, in theatre performances and community engagement programs.
The work places people at its core coupled with an exquisite immersive soundscape. It is visually stunning and an important contribution to the cannon of performance art.”
- Kate Usher, Supercell Festival Of Contemporary Dance -
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.
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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
Projects
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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
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Photographers and Designers whose work appears on this site: Bridget Fiske, Dartsia Liuba, Eamonn Sweeney - CreativeImageworx, Joseph Lau, Ivan-Alexander Kyutev, Matt Kowalczuk, Mike Park, Nadia Milford, Peter Hadjikolev, Point Of View, Sammie Williams, SBeausy Photography, Tamsin Drury, Victor Isabel Bueno, and Georgia Brown
