CONTEMPORARY + LIVE ART:

Brink is on the edge of life. Featuring a display of the most unusual collection of artifacts and objects, presented in a classic car retrieved from Cairns Central Swamp. Creative Producers Rebecca Youdell and Russell Milledge.

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Get ready for something different. The Tanks Arts Centre hosts a unique contemporary art event by homegrown success story ‘Bonemap’. The installation titled ‘Brink’ is an intrigueing journey into a resonant past filled with a collectors excentricities. Patrons of the OnEdge Festival will be able to veiw the static display from Wednesday 13th July and on Friday 15th July at 8pm the doors to Tank 3 will open for a one-night-only thrill combining exceptional skills in dance, visual arts and sound.

Bonemap are in the throws of producing 'Brink’ as a new installation and performance work incorporating stunning dance, sculptures and video projection for the inaugural ‘On Edge’ contemporary media and performance week being held Cairns 12-16 July 2005.

Russell Milledge and Rebecca Youdell of the Bonemap intermedia art collective join with guest artists DJ Olive (USA), David Williams (NSW), Jess Jones, Sue Hayes, Brian Fuata (NSW) and other professional creative artists to explore a new multi-art work ‘Brink’.

‘Brink’ defined as lip, rim, verge or edge signifies a world teetering, and on the verge of something about to happen. Where we reside in Far North Queensland and our place on the Asia Pacific rim are just another set of global coordinates. So for an evening that blurrs artistic boundaries and offers an experience of exquisite art from the brink of extinction come along to the Tanks Art Centre 8:00pm Friday 15 July.

The historic value of the Tanks site as a domestic defence policy for the protection and survival of Australians during World War II is not lost. The artists work to contain elements involving everything from an environmental defence campaign, observations of humanity, attributes of nuptials, and the domestic wild will to live.

Bonemap tells it like it is, ‘We are a hybrid mesh of live art, installation, dance and new media framed by an overarching ecological framework that expands into the imagination as both the visceral and the virtual.’

‘In a relationship between the breadth of performance and the rigor and context of visual art, there has developed a hybrid genre known as live art. This has been acknowledged as one of the most vital and influential of creative spaces, that operates in the cracks of our culture. For Brink, Bonemap begins to reveal fluidity where we expect to find the static.’

‘Brink’ will be delivered as part of an evening of exploratory contemporary performance hosted at the Tanks Arts Centre on Friday 15 July 2005 - with other sound, screen, installation, performance and symposium events occurring throughout the week at the Tanks and KickArts.