Bio brief
Phil Dadson: sound & intermedia artist, with an interdisciplinary practice including solo performances and exhibitions; building experimental instruments, video/sound installation, music composition & graphic scores, sound sculptures and improvisations on his invented instruments; founder of New Zealand's most original rhythm/performance group, From Scratch. Following membership of the foundation group for Scratch Orchestra (London, 1969, with Cornelius Cardew, Michael Parsons & others), founded Scratch Orchestra (NZ), and later From Scratch (1974) – known internationally for its funky rhythms & intermedia performances on original instruments. Co-authored The From Scratch Rhythm Workbook with Don McGlashan, published by Heineman USA – a hands-on manual of rhythm exercises & invented instruments, derived via the from scratch experience; Slap Tubes and other plosive Aerophones, co-authored with Bart Hopkin, EMI, USA.
Recent highlights include: 2010. Nine DragonHeads, Korea & China: Sydney Biennale, Superdeluxe@Artspace performance: AKAU TANGI, wind sculpture, Wn. URBAN DEVAS, Ak. 2009, Nine DragonHeads in Sarajevo. 2008, SUR POLAR, Buenos Aires. FIRESTARTERS (NZ Trio). 2007, Peace Rites, 175 East premiere, Sanskriti Residency, Delhi. 2006, nominee for WALTERS PRIZE; LICA visiting scholar, Lancaster UK; CONCERTINA, St Pauls St Gallery. 2005, TENANTENNAE, Connells Bay Sculpture Park; TAPPING THE PULSE. film&video survey show, Mediaplex, Wellington; REV @ Small Black Box, Brisbane; POLAR PROJECTS, Bowen Gallery & Physics Room. 2004, Solo performance, Physics Room; POLAR PROJECTS installation, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Starkwhite and Gus Fisher Galleries, Auckland; ECHO LOGO at World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam; N8 : Night Festival of Sound, HFG/ZKM, Karlsruhe, in collaboration with Michael Saup and friends; Performance with Johannes Bauer (Berlin) and Rod Cooper (Melbourne); Stark Audio #3 : Solo at Stark White Gallery, Ak; 2003, VOCAL ACROBATS with Koichi Makigami, Mark van Tongeren and Clayton Thomas (AK03 Festival); Video Actions, Performance Space, Sydney; Solo, Impermanent.Audio, Sydney; Solo tour to Vienna, Prague, Tokyo. 2002, REV Festival of Experimental Musical Instruments, Brisbane; Adelaide Spotlight Festival. 2001, Solo performances in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Seishin University & Tama Hall, Tokyo and Zeitflus Festival, Salzburg. 2000, Piano/Forte installation, Contemporary Art Annex, Christchurch NZ. 1999, Global Conceptualism, New York. 1998, GLOBAL HOCKETS, NZ Festival of Arts, Ars Electronica and World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam.
Collaborations with Michael Saup, Keiji Haino, Carl Stone, Maruta Miki, Koichi Makigami, Mark van Tongeren, Johannes Bauer, Clayton Thomas, James Charlton, Amanda Newall, Pauline Oliveros, Rosy Parlane, Richard Francis, Eugene Chadborne,Tetuzi Akiyama, Tomomi Adachi, Mark Sadgrove, IanJohn Hutchinson, John Bell & Paul Winstanley, VitaminS, Richard Nunns. Exhibited and performed in Sound Cultures; Tokyo, San Francisco & Auckland. Awarded NZ ArtsFoundation Artist Laureate 2001. Antarctic Artist fellowship 2003. NZOM 2004 (full CV/bio' available on request)
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