Plastic Belly | Horizon Festival Homegrown - Meet Courtney and Itamar

Itamar and Courtney's work, Plastic Belly, is one of the June Horizon Festival Homegrown artist commissions, screening online 5pm Sun 21 June. Find out more here.

Who are you and what do you create?
We are Itamar Freed and Courtney Scheu, we are a visual artist and dance artist respectively.

We have been creating art collaboratively since 2017…

What materials and techniques do you use?
We use whatever medium is the most appropriate for conveying our ideas – 3D printing, algorithm based creations, dance on film, dance live, photography, sculpture and any combination of the previous.

For Plastic Belly we are working on-site, with performers, a bright blue tarp, sandbags, a drone and cameras. The changing beach landscape continually shifted the work as we adapted and responded to the changing environment.

What kind of inspirations go into your work?
Our work often shares and investigates our connection to place and the natural environment to bring up conversations around people and the environment, the portrayal of nature internationally and our impact on nature.

We are also interested in the work of the old masters, how art historically has informed our perceptions of humanity today.

In dance, we are excited by creating situations that place the performer in the present moment. This is sometimes through improvisation scores, internal narrative, set or space and the structure of the work.

See full Q+A here.