Russell Milledge
	Investigating the dynamics of our contemporary environment. Contained within cultural identity are notions of displacement, postcolonialism, exchange, colonisation of gestures, cultural leakage and currency. The tenets of my creative work have been through motivation and desire in respect to our landscapes. Through curatorial and performance work such as Distance Between Worlds and Linkage Leakage, the performative nature of collaboration is able to transgress into new realms of expression. Collaboration becomes part of the basis for gestural language informing lifestyle and communication.
Russell Milledge works as an artist and curator. His performance work has been focused around Body Weather collaborations. Milledge has studied Body Weather in Japan with Min Tanaka & Mai-juku also intensively in Australia with Tess de Quincey. Butoh with Kazuo Ono, Sho Takeuchi. His visual art practice is represented in the collections of The Queensland Art Gallery and The National Library of Australia. Milledge works in performance, music, 2 and 3 dimensional mixed-media works, computer generated art and animation, web authoring, sculpture, installation art, furniture design and manufacture. Most recently Milledge collaborated with local, interstate and international artists on Baggage Transfer/Tranship (1996-98) as multimedia curator. Traversing Sense and Urge (1996-98) where Milledge's multi-skilling saw him as performer, lighting designer and web site author. Milledge was Curator / Project Director for Linkage Leakage (1996) a cultural exchange residency and event project between Asian, Melanesian and Australian artists. <www.ozemail.com.au/~end>

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