Previous Work - Melinda Hetzel & Co.
Artist-led collective, Melinda Hetzel & Co., collaborated to create extraordinary site-responsive and participatory artworks, which invited audiences to experience and participate in art in new ways.
Melinda Hetzel and collaborators, known for creating deeply evocative, visually stunning, performance experiences, persisted in raising questions about the complex and evolving relationships between the human animal and the natural and human-built worlds. Evoking collective memories of grief, loss, longing and transformation, this multi-talented group of artists specialised in creating intimate, yet spectacular, art experiences within public space. Based in Naarm (Melbourne), the collectived pursued a fascination with how live arts, in combination with new technologies, can affirm threads of interconnectedness between human beings and the rapidly changing world in which we live.
From 2013 - 2024 Melinda Hetzel & Co. created a diverse suite of works including - participatory performance-installation, Urban Cocoon, augmented reality experience, Fly By Night, live fortune-telling machine, Madame Tulalah's Magnificent Box, interactive, musical tree-installation, Between the Trees, durational, live and live-streamed performance-installation, Conservatory, and photographic pavement exhibition, Here We Walk. This body of work built on Hetzel's decade as artistic director of visual theatre company Peepshow Inc.
Works -
Spilt Milk with Pia Johnson (artist residences/online, 2012-15)
Urban Cocoon (Melbourne City Square, 2013); commissioned by City of Melbourne.
Fly By Night (Hamer Hall, 2015), commissioned by Arts Centre Melbourne; Green Room Award Nomination for Design in Contemporary Performance (Visual and Digital App Design); showcased at the Australian Performing Arts Market 2016, Brisbane.
Madame Tulalah's Magnificent Box (Arts House, 2016), toured nationally.
Between the Trees (Central Park, Malvern, 2018)
m-ball by soh.la (Artplay, 2018)
Conservatory, (Central Park, Malvern, 2020), Fringe Nomination for Best Experimental work.
Phoenix by Niow (La Mama, 2021)
Dinkie Die by Delia Poon (Vacant shopfront, Reservoir, 2022)
Here We Walk (Westmeadows, 2022)
Exquisite Bias by Delia Poon (Preston Library, 2024)
Somethings From Nothings with Sylvie Meltzer (online, 2023)
Solace (State Libary Victoria, 2023-24) was commissioned by State Library Victoria, Alchemy Program.
Melinda Hetzel and collaborators, known for creating deeply evocative, visually stunning, performance experiences, persisted in raising questions about the complex and evolving relationships between the human animal and the natural and human-built worlds. Evoking collective memories of grief, loss, longing and transformation, this multi-talented group of artists specialised in creating intimate, yet spectacular, art experiences within public space. Based in Naarm (Melbourne), the collectived pursued a fascination with how live arts, in combination with new technologies, can affirm threads of interconnectedness between human beings and the rapidly changing world in which we live.
From 2013 - 2024 Melinda Hetzel & Co. created a diverse suite of works including - participatory performance-installation, Urban Cocoon, augmented reality experience, Fly By Night, live fortune-telling machine, Madame Tulalah's Magnificent Box, interactive, musical tree-installation, Between the Trees, durational, live and live-streamed performance-installation, Conservatory, and photographic pavement exhibition, Here We Walk. This body of work built on Hetzel's decade as artistic director of visual theatre company Peepshow Inc.
Works -
Spilt Milk with Pia Johnson (artist residences/online, 2012-15)
Urban Cocoon (Melbourne City Square, 2013); commissioned by City of Melbourne.
Fly By Night (Hamer Hall, 2015), commissioned by Arts Centre Melbourne; Green Room Award Nomination for Design in Contemporary Performance (Visual and Digital App Design); showcased at the Australian Performing Arts Market 2016, Brisbane.
Madame Tulalah's Magnificent Box (Arts House, 2016), toured nationally.
Between the Trees (Central Park, Malvern, 2018)
m-ball by soh.la (Artplay, 2018)
Conservatory, (Central Park, Malvern, 2020), Fringe Nomination for Best Experimental work.
Phoenix by Niow (La Mama, 2021)
Dinkie Die by Delia Poon (Vacant shopfront, Reservoir, 2022)
Here We Walk (Westmeadows, 2022)
Exquisite Bias by Delia Poon (Preston Library, 2024)
Somethings From Nothings with Sylvie Meltzer (online, 2023)
Solace (State Libary Victoria, 2023-24) was commissioned by State Library Victoria, Alchemy Program.
Image description: A femme-presenting person in an awkward headstand in a pile of autumn leaves, located inside a theatre foyer. The person is wearing a skirt suit with an orange top; her head, arms and shoulders are buried in the leaves. Photo: Nassiem Valamanesh, featuring Ingrid Weisfelt, Fly By Night - (Hamer Hall, 2015).
