Amanda Stewart

Amanda Stewart (* 1959 in Sydney ) is an Australian poet and performance artist .

Life

Amanda Stewart studied at the University of Technology in Sydney . Since the 1970s she has produced lyrical texts, performances, radio, film and multimedia works that have been performed in Australia, Japan, the USA and Europe. From 1983 to 1993 she was a producer at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation .

In 1989 she founded the Ensemble Machine for Making Sense , with which she performed text and sound performances, and in 1995 the Trio Allos . In 1990, she was co-author and producer of the film Eclipse of the Man-Made Sun . Between 1995 and 2001 she completed twelve performance tours through Europe. At Sydney Festival 1997, the opera was The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior premiered, the Stewart with the composer Colin Bright had written. In 1998 she released the set Selected Poems 1980-1996 (book and CD), which won the Anne Elder Poetry Prize at the National Literary Awards in Australia the following year . In 2000 she received a production contract from Bayerischer Rundfunk for two new pieces that were performed in Munich in 2001.

Works

Recordings of Stewart's works can be found on the following CDs and MCs:

• NMA Tapes 5 (Victoria: NMA Publications, 1988)
• Mixed Doubles (Victoria: NMA Publications, 1989)
• Vocal Neighborhoods: A Walk through the Post-Sound Poetry Landscape (Leonardo Music Journal, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993)
• I Nuovi Mondi (Cento: Baobab Publishers, 1994)
• The Meridian Crossings (Lowlands, Czech Republic, 1995).

With Machine of Making Sense she produced the CDs:

• on second thoughts (Australia, 1994)
• Talk is Cheap (Potts Point: Split Records, 1996)
• Dissect the Body (Potts Point: Split Records, 1998)
• consciousness (Potts Point: Split Records, 1999)

She is also the author of a number of experimental films and videos; u. a. made in collaboration with Nicolette Freeman U.S .. US .. (1981) and the documentary Eclipse of the Man-Made Sun (1990), which was awarded at festivals in Australia, the USA, Japan, Holland and France .