KEN + JULIA YONETANI
Ken + Julia Yonetani are collaborative artists who work in the field of sculptural installation, video, and performance art. They have exhibited together at Artereal Gallery, Campbelltown Arts Centre, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Object Gallery, Gold Coast City Gallery, Jan Manton Art, and Sydney College of the Arts. In 2010, they staged a bed-in performance in Federation Square, Melbourne. Their current work, Still Life: The Food Bowl, resulted from a three month Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) Synapse Residency in Mildura, organized by Mildura Palimpsest in collaboration with the Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre and Sunrise 21.

KATE VIVIAN
Since commencing formal studies at the University of Ballarat Kate's interests in drawing and photography have expanded into ceramics and predominantly now explore found clays. “Each material contains a cosmos”] to reveal and reference place through site specific installations, which reflect loss of bio diversity and acceptance of our domesticated landscapes.

JUSTINE ROUSE
Justine is a Melbourne based artist whose current interest lies in exploring the potential energy that exists at the point of contact between objects, and how it may manifest in the viewer. Recent work has centred on propping as an operation in sculpture;
moving from the prop:object relationship to prop:architecture. She has previously exhibited in
group shows at Conical, Craft Victoria and the Eildon Gallery, and is currently undertaking research for a Masters of Fine Art (MFA) at Monash University.

PIP RYAN
Pip Ryan is completing her Master of Fine Art at the
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.
Pip has exhibited nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions. Recent solo shows include ‘Collective Bad Luck’ at West Space Gallery,‘Machine Compilation 15’ at the Melbourne Propaganda window and ‘Going around in Circles’
at Bus Gallery. Recent group exhibitions include ‘The
Melbourne Connection’, curated by Sherry McLane.‘Alejos’ at Museo de la ciudad de Leon in Mexico, ‘Sex, Death and Violence’ at Blindside gallery, ‘Seppuku’, at Lindberg Contemporary Art and ‘Prosthetic Animal’, Curated by Veronica Kent at Cube 37 Glass studios projection space.

TSAI HAOJI
Tsai Haoji (Hogi) is an emerging media artist, musician and computer programmer interested in the interplay between video, multimedia and interactive
installation art. Originally from Taiwan, he is currently based in Australia and is doing his PhD degree in Media Arts, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences, La Trobe University. Hogi’s research focuses on game aesthetics, popular culture and interactive multimedia art.

Originally titled ‘18 reasons why we still need superman’ in each destination one or two more video works are added by locally based curators and played at the following destination. A selection of up to twenty works from the extended line up (now 38 reasons why we still need superman) will be shown at Mildura Palimpsest #8. Beijing based Curator, Tim Crowley, will introduce both screenings.

1. Christian Jankowski, The Hunt, 1992/1997*
2. Angus Fairhurst, A cheap and ill-fitting gorilla suit, 1995*
3. Paul McCarthy, The painter, 1995*
4. Roman Signer, Schweben in einer Kiste (floating in a box), 1999*
5. Jake and Dinos Chapman, Studio Tour, 2004*
6. John Smith, OM, 1983*
7. Mat Collishaw, Blind date, 1997*
8. Yang Zhengzhong, I will die, 2000-*
9. John Bock, Meechfielber, 2004*
10. Roddy Buchanan, Gobstopper, 1999*
11. Anton Henning, 4 pieces of music and 2 paintings, 2006*
12. Jonathon Meese, Casinoz Babymetabolismn, 2008*
13. TJ Wilcox, Death and burial of the first emperor of China, 1992*
14. Olaf Breuning, Home 2, 2007*
15. Guido van der Werve, Everything is going to be alright, 2007*
16. Wang Qingsong, Chop 1, 2008*
17. Ross Sinclair, Real life, 1995-present day*
18. Xu Bing, Transitions part 1 and part 2, 1991-1995*
19. Zhou Tao, Mutual Exercise, 2009
20. Hu Xiangqian, Sun, 2009
21. Dash Snow, Sisyphus, sissy fuss, silly puss, 2009
22. Roslisham Ismail (Ise), HI-S-TORY, 2008-9
23. Vincent Leong, How to be Bruce, 2004
24. Tejal Shah, ‘Chingari Chumma / Stinging Kiss,’ 2004
25. Surabhi Sharma, Airplane descending, 2007
26. Jitish Kallat, Forensic Trail, 2010
27. Hoang Duong Cam, Food 4 thought 4 food, 2009
28. Keltse, I love Oxygen deficiency, 2010
29. Benchung, Butter, 2007
30. Emma Hart, Dice, 2009
31. Greta Alfaro, In Ictu Oculi, 2009
32. Tseng Yu-chin, Who’s listening?, 2003-4
33. Marie Voigner, Hearing the shape of a drum, 2010
34. Ferhat Ozgur, Metamorphosis Chat, 2010
35. Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, I do not sleep tonight, 2010
36. Dampier Avalon, Rainbow bridge, 2010
37. Yak Tseden, Grasslands, 2009
38. Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Manet`s Luncheon On The Grass & Thai Villagers, 2008

MICHAEL WESTAWAY
Michael Westaway is an archaeologist and biological anthropologist.
Michael’s career has covered many diverse roles: consultant archaeologist in Queensland (1996-1997); state archaeologist with the Heritage Services Branch of Aboriginal Affairs in Victoria (1998-2001); manager and biological anthropologist at the National Museum of Australia with the repatriation unit (2001-2004); Executive Officer with the NSW National Parks Service for the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area (2004-2008); archaeologist with the NSW National Parks Service at Yanga National Park (2008); and curator of archaeology at the Queensland Museum (2008-2010).

GEOFFREY ROBINSON
Geoff Robinson creates process-determined works that involve sound mapping and duration. His practice investigates the transformation of sonic experiences into form and the charting of time through reflected light works and sound performance. Geoff uses field recordings as a means of mapping sites and creating large-scale three-dimensional linear forms. He is interested in the transformation from exploring sites through sound to the use of surveying and mapping to create installations. Geoff records sites that are in flux and where urban and natural environments intersect.

CHIM↑POM
Chim↑Pom are a Tokyo-based six-member Japanese art collective. They officially launched their activities in 2005 and have been working ceaselessly since their conceptual inception. They have gathered both national and international recognition for their exploration of socio-political issues and their engaging artistic examinations of life and death.

KEITH ARMSTRONG
Armstrong specialises in collaborative, hybrid, new media works with an emphasis on site-specific electronic arts, networked interactive installations, alternative interfaces, public arts practices and artscience collaborations. His research focuses on how scientific and philosophical ecologies can both influence and direct the design and conception of networked, interactive media artworks.

WARREN FITHIE
Warren Fithie has exhibited in Tokyo, France and the Netherlands. He lived in Tokyo, Japan, from 2000-2006, where he was co-director of Roomspace gallery. Returning to Melbourne in 2006 he joined the committee of KINGS Artist run initiative. Fithie teaches digital photography and colour management processes at Monash University, where he is studying for his MFA.

ELLIOT HOWARD
Elliot Howard studied Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University (1994) and Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths College, London (2007). Howard has curated exhibitions and exhibited artworks in conventional and unconventional art spaces as well as in film festivals in the UK, Europe and Australia. Howard currently lectures in art history and theory at La Trobe University and has ongoing interests in asking what a critically engaged art practice is? As well as asking how an artist might be able to interfere with this thing that follows late capitalism?

BRENDAN LEE
The video and photographic artworks of Brendan Lee are an exploration of the evolutionary nature of Australian cultural identity. In recent years, Lee has focused on investigating the unique undercurrents of society through commenting on groups and teams that are unique to Australia; it's stereotypes and history. Specifically, Lee's ongoing project examines the cultural and historical differences between Larrikins, Bogans and Hoons, their approaches to competition, affiliations and filmic references. Lee’s subject matter goes to the core of the Australian male's competitive nature and looks outside of the mainstream for his references. Games of chance, motor sports and drinking contests are all subjects Lee brings to the forefront in his search for the Australian spirit.

MODUS OPERANDI
Modus Operandi is a collective of 5 artists and a curator: Vincent Alessi, Chris Caines, Neil Fettling, Maria Miranda, Norie Neumark and Meredith Rogers. Their practice ranges across performance, installation, photography, video and sound, networked media art and curation. They share a commitment to collaboration, experimentation, disruption, process, environmental concerns, and working with ‘found’ objects, situations, and sites.

HEATHER LEE
Heather completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) in 2008 and is currently studying a Master of Arts in Interpretive Writing through Charles Sturt University. Since 2004, Heather has been involved in numerous group exhibitions including most recently, the 2010 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award and the 2010 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive Award. Solo exhibitions have included Ovah!, 2008 and Some of it was cricket, 2009. The conceptual basis of Heather’s art is strongly influenced by her research into sports' sociology and the way Australia's historical foundations have permeated through to the present time. Heather works across various media including printmaking, sculpture, and digital printmaking.

Chris Fraser is a local artist and educator. Her paintings and mixed media works are primarily concerned with colour and patterning. Over the last two years her stylised figures have been developed from photographs from family albums. Recent group exhibitions have included the Linden Postcard show and the White Cube project. Her next solo exhibition will be at Gallery 25 in November, 2011.

LARA VAN RAAY + SARAH SIMMONS
Lara van Raay has been involved in the production of over 30 short films and documentaries and has worked in the television industry for over 13 years. She is currently working for ABC On-line in Mildura

Sarah Simmons has worked in the media industry since 2002 for companies such as the Financial Times (UK), NineMSN, Getty Images and various media companies while freelancing in the Middle East. She was also a full-time photojournalist for the Sunraysia Daily in Mildura, Victoria last year. Her achievements to date include developing a sewing school in Tamil Nadu, India for the Tsunami re-build in 2004 and being one of the first female photojournalists permitted to photograph muslim policewomen in the Dubai Women’s Police Force.

UNEASILY ALONG THE SAND
Paul Carter, Edmund Carter, Dirk de Bruyn, Christopher Williams
Paul Carter is an artist and writer who has written about his many artist collaborations in such books as‘Material Thinking’ (2004), ‘Mythform: the making of Nearamnew at Federation Square’ (2005) and ‘Dark Writing’ (2008). His attachment to the Mallee first emerged 25 years ago in a radio work called ‘What Is Your Name’, inspired by the tangled story of ‘Jowley’, and Jowley or ‘Mac’ is a leading figure in his recent poetic history of the Mallee, ‘Ground Truthing’. Carter is Chair of Creative Place Research, Deakin University and Creative Director of Material Thinking

Dirk de Bruyn has made numerous experimental, documentary, animation films and new media interactive works for over 35 years and continues to maintain a no-budget and independent focus for much of this work. His multi-screen performances have featured in venues and festivals in Melbourne, Brisbane, Tokyo, Wellington, Auckland, London, Paonia in Colorado USA and The Hague and Utrecht in Netherlands over the last few years. His films are available from the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, New York Filmmaker’s Co-op, Lightcone in Paris, Canadian Filmmaker’s Distribution Center and Lux Distribution in London. Dirk de Bruyn has written on and curated various programs of film and video art internationally. He is currently teaching animation and digital culture at Deakin University in Victoria.

Edmund Carter is an award winning architect and designer with an interest in interdisciplinary public art and urban design. He has exhibited widely nationally and internationally including in ‘Now and When’, the Australian Pavilion for the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, later also exhibited in Brisbane and Seoul. Selected collaborative exhibitions include: ‘Visions: Beyond Media’, Florence 2009; ‘Nascent Present’, State
of Design, Melbourne 2009; ‘Para’, RMIT University, Melbourne 2008; and ‘Flood Resistant Housing’, Rotterdam 2005.

Christopher Williams is a director, dramaturge and sound artist working with radiophonic composition, sound installation, and electro-acoustic music. He has been involved for the past several years in projects based in the Mallee region: ‘Speaking to Blue Winds’, a poetry feature on John Shaw Neilson, situating the poet in the Mallee landscape; ‘Four Works for Headphones’, radiophonic compositions based on recordings at Lake Tyrell, presented most recently at Horsham Regional Art Gallery; and the radio play‘Mac’ by Paul Carter, based on an imagined meeting of Neilson and Wotjobaluk man ‘Jowley’, which will be broadcast on ABC Radio National ‘Airplay’ to coincide with Palimpsest along with ‘Speaking to Blue Winds’.