Panther was a collaboration between Madeleine Collie and Sarah Rodigari that began in 2003 and ended in 2010. Together as a duo Panther produced public moments of encounter, research enquiries, performance lectures, dance events, durational projects and installations. Over the eight years of the collaboration they retained an interest in post dramatic forms of enquiry, which is a performance form that values deadpan delivery, being in the present time with the audience and chance.
Panthers are everywhere, they are often spotted in fields, football jerseys, beer mugs like a blur at the edge of your vision. They are a universal carnivore, ready to pounce on any unsuspecting victim, they are mythical and caged, restless and always watching. And yet their existence places them just far enough outside of time to be able to see the past, the future and the present in an expanding understanding. Time outside of time and always here and now.
Events and Performances
2010 here, now – mapping independent experimental Australian arts practices, co-curated with Sarah Rodigari, delivered with Jackson Castiglione, commissioned by Australia Council for the Arts, presented at Adelaide Festival, Australia
2009 – Together at the end, Panther presented some collective predictions about the many futures that lie ahead. At Headquarters, as part of THE END OF THE WORLD SOUVENIR SHOP, Performance Festival Melbourne
2009 – Agency for Collective Action, (Agen Aksi Bersama) Panther & pvi collective (Perth) Commissioned by South Projects, with Kunci and Cemmeti Arts House, Indonesia
2009 – Playground a New World Order, Arts House, Melbourne and Live Works Festival, Sydney, Australia
2009 – This is what it takes to make it through the night (Performance Lecture on Survival) and We will leave our pursuers with nothing but our capes (Performance Lecture on Escape), National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, and PICA Performance Event
2008, Stranger of the Month, Next Wave, 2008 (curated by Kerrie Dee Johns)
2007-8 – Exercises in Happiness, exhibition / interactive performance with Panther, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Substation Gallery, Singapore, Coastal Currents Festival, Hastings
2007 Anti-playground performance live art duo Panther, Anti Festival, Kuopio, Finland (curated by Greg Whelan and Johanna Tuukkanen)
2006 We will leave our pursuers with nothing but our capes performance live art duo Panther, Tape Space Performance Night, Melbourne, Happenstance, Loop Bar (curated by Kate O’Hara), PACT Performance Festival, Essen, Bochum Theatre Festival, Dortmund, Performance Space, Performance Platform, Sydney
Residencies and Grants
2010 – Ian Potter Cultural Trust, $6000 Emerging Artist Travel Grant, for travel to research residency at Performance Art Forum , Rennes, France
2009 – Cemeti Arts House, Jogjakarta, Indonesia, residency and workshop with Panther and pvi collective in order to make a new work for the South Project Gathering
2008 – We don’t want to shop anymore, $40,000 from Australia Council and Creative Victoria for creation of a new video work in shopping centers across Australia with residency at Arts House Melbourne.
2008 – A Month in the Country, Albury, Australia, residency and rehearsal space to create a new work This is what it takes to make it through the night with Panther
2007 – PACT Zollverein, Essen Germany, 6 week residency to create new work with one week training programme with international artists as part of the contemporary performance and dance research programme.
2007 – Steirischer Herbst Festival Study Program, On Participatory Architecture,
2007 –Australia Council for the Arts, $5000 Runway Grant for Emerging Artists for travel to five European cities for professional development
2006 – Performance Space, one month research residency in Sydney to consider the potentials of interactive performance installation with artist and mentor Deborah Pollard
2004 – Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Strangers and Intimacy research residency with Panther and Reader
2004 – Creative Arts Victoria, $8,200 International Development Grant for Travel to Scotland to present Strangers and Intimacy

Stranger of the Month, Next Wave, 2008

Panther Playground, Arts House, 2008

Together at the End, Lupa Festival, 2009

Performance Lecture: Escape Panther

Performance Lecture: Survival Panther

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Performance Lecture: Escape Panther

Performance Lecture: Survival Panther