Jude Anderson
For the past 20 years Jude’s work has investigated the relationship between audiences and art. This has led Jude to create installations and performances that have been variously described as gatherings of people for singular experiences as much as explorations into relational aesthetic.
Since 1994 Jude has directed and produced over 45 productions, installations, and performance works many of which have been created and toured internationally. Productions she has directed and co-directed have been programmed by some of Europe’s major international festivals.
Jude has produced, directed and taught contemporary performance in Chile, U.S.A, Italy, and France. She returned to Australia in 2001 where she now lives and works in Castlemaine, Victoria. In 2004 she founded the live arts organisation Punctum for which she is Artistic Director. In 2007 she established Punctum’s Live Arts incubator where contemporary arts research and practice is supported and presented, and in the same year began constructing pathways to regional and international arts and cultural exchange through creating arts adventures such as In-Habit.

Emilie Collyer
Emilie writes plays, performance text, poetry, fiction and is an actor and improvisor. Award winning plays include Argonauta (Young Playwright’s Award) and Promise (George Fairfax Award). She has been published in Page Seventeen, Torpedo, Voiceworks, The Australian Book Review, Viewpoint and with Binara Publishing. She has been affiliated with and produced by ABC Radio National, La Mama, Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox, The Victorian Arts Centre and St Martins among others. Emilie is a founding member and board member of Punctum. She has co-written works with Jude Anderson since 2001. In 2009 she is the Project Coordinator for In Habit and Coordinating Artist for In-Habit In Situ. In Situ is Emilie’s first foray into installation art – it is an archival adventure.

berni m janssen
berni m janssen is a writer/performer who has a history of working collaboratively nationally and internationally with artists across contemporary art forms. She has performed in Fiji, the Phillipines and Austria and has had work represented in Spain and Italy. She has made works in Australia with composers, musicians and sound designers including Warren Burt, Lawrence Hardy, Caroline Connors and Margaret Trail, James Hullick (JOLT). Her long duration interdisciplinary project Flightpaths (1996 – 2000) was a national project that explored metaphor, relational aesthetics and airports as site. The project was realised in performance, CD Rom, on radio and in exhibition and installation. berni coordinates the Asia Pacific Writers Network. Through her practice berni continues to investigate interdisciplinary ways of working.

Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy
Katerina is a director, writer, performance consultant and dramaturge. She is a VCA graduate with more than 20 years of experience as a theatre maker, writer and pedagogue. Katerina’s theatre practice is text and image based and incorporates movement, moving image and photography. Her practice is currently pre-occupied with interrogating the role of the live audience and her recent works have experimented with both site-specificity and audience-interactivity. Katerina won the Ewa Czajor Memorial Award for directors (1997), a Friends of the VCA Award (2000) and an Ian Potter Study/Travel Award (2001). She has worked in a variety of roles including; VCA actor trainer and curriculum writer (1998-2003), artistic coordinator of a multi-disciplinary arts incubator (2002-2004), and feature arts writer for Artshub UK (2005-2007). In 2007 she was awarded a postgraduate research scholarship at Monash University. She is the current Head of the Green Room's Theatre Companies Panel and is a regular panelist for Arts Victoria.

Jason Maling
Jason Maling's work employs a broad range of media, encompassing drawing, installation, durational process, and public performance. It is characterised by a formality of composition with a fluidity of outcome. He designs systems that allow for ongoing explorations of shifting locations and social settings where the work becomes a collaboratively mediated tool. Often using the structure of games, the roles of players and the rules of play continually evolve through individual and collective expressions of what is 'allowed’. People enter and exit the systems as they choose, some becoming involved with projects over a long period of time. Utilising found texts, objects, locations and participants; the public realisation of each work employs a theatrical language of comedic improvisation and acutely structured arrangements. For Maling the live experience is a negotiation process into the public necessity of each work. Can it exist here? Who wants it? What does it mean to them? When is it time to leave? Since 1998 Maling has conceived, curated and performed projects in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. These include The Fortitude Game (London, Marseilles, Melbourne) and ongoing investigation with Splint (Portugal, France, UK, Australia). He currently lives in Melbourne where he is engaged in an ongoing performance work called The Vorticist.
http://www.jasonmaling.com/

Mandy Nicholson
Mandy has been a practicing visual artist since 1996. She currently works as an archeological assistant/monitor with the Wurundjeri and Boon wurrung Land Councils. Mandy has also worked as an Oral History Worker with the Koorie Heritage Trust and been a participant with the Toor-rong Aboriginal Corporation (C.D.E.P). Awards and achievements include: Finalist 2007: Walker Street Gallery, ‘SHE Who Dreams Exhibition’, Finalist 2006: Koorie Business Network’s-Business of Arts Awards, Monash University 2006: Indigenous Scholarship for Excellence, Bundoora Homestead 2004: Exhibition winner, N.A.I.D.O.C Week 2000: South Eastern Region Artist of the Year.

Carl Pannuzzo
Carl is an Australian-born multi-instrumentalist (voice, piano, guitar, bass, drums, tuned percussion, harp and ukelele), with over fifteen years teaching, song writing, and performance experience. He has recorded 5 original solo CDs: ‘Hay Fever’ (ukulele), ‘Live in Austria’ (piano), ‘5 Lines’ (chamber ensemble), ‘Passing Eye of the Sun’ (world musics), ‘Blissters’ (acoustic), 2 vinyl releases, ‘Improvisadrians’(solo piano), “Loungin’ Round’, (original blues); 11 CDs with other groups including both performing and composing; around 40 as guest performer on other artists´ recordings. Since 1997 Carl has performed and taught regularly in London, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Austria, Greece, Italy, Germany, USA and Asia. He is a member of acoustic duo Pot’n’Kettle and was a member of roots based impro group Checkerboard Lounge and the award-winning vocal trio: Acapelicans. Carl’s compositions include: Musical Score for pocket opera ‘Dinner in a Dry Dam’, (Castlemaine State Festival 2009), commission to compose song ‘The Only Hope’ for His Holiness Dalai Llama, Tibet (2008), sound design for artwork entry in the Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award for Jonathan Leahey’s ‘Ace’ (2007), soundtrack for Soul Theatre’s ‘The Life of Dolly Stainer’ (2006), original song 'Stop Jabiluka Mine' won the Australian Songwriter's Association 1999 'Earthsong of the Year' award.

Ernesto Rios
Ernesto Ríos is a multi-disciplinary visual artist. He was born in Mexico where he studied Photography, Hispanic Literature, History of Art and Fine Arts. Ríos holds a Master Degree from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program. Rios is currently is a doctoral candidate at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia. Ríos has taught multimedia and photography at a number of institutions, most recently UAEM (University of the State of Morelos in Mexico) and Deakin University (Melbourne Australia). Ríos has been working with a diverse palette of tools developing his work in photography, drawing, video, animation, interactive art and virtual reality. Rios has shown his work at distinguished galleries and Museums in United States, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Japan, Italy, France and England.

Chi Vu
Chi Vu was born in Vietnam, and arrived in Australia in 1979. A Bachelor of Arts/Commerce graduate of the University of Melbourne, she has worked as an artist, theatre maker & performer, writer, artistic director, lecturer and artist-in-residence. She is currently working at Arts Victoria. Chi won a Playbox Asialink Award for her play A Story of Soil. Her plays have been performed in Melbourne at the North Melbourne Arts House and Footscray Community Arts Centre; and in Sydney at the Sidetrack Theatre and the Sydney Opera House’s Studio. Her short stories have been published in Meanjin, The Age, Refo, and in anthologies by Random House, Picador, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Black Inc publishing houses. In 2000, Chi was awarded an Asialink writer’s residency to Vietnam where she wrote the critically acclaimed work Vietnam: a Psychic Guide. It was later adapted into a bilingual cross-disciplinary performance. In 2006, she received the prestigious arts residency to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland by the Australia Council for the Arts.
Chi Vu recently completed a three-week intensive Creative Development Project at the Casula Powerhouse with artists such as Sally Sussman, Ta Duy Binh, Le Van Tai and David Cuong Nguyen. In her community-based arts practice, Chi has co-devised and lead over 30 performance projects with diverse community groups over the past twelve years.