Specializing in giant-scale theatrical interventions and site- specific spectacle, Memetica uses the uniquely customized designs of Daniele Poidomani to imagine new worlds and their inhabitants, to construct impossibly real fictions, and to engineer wonder as a shared mass experience.

The Memetica process favours collaboration and continuity, empowering participant groups to develop and engage with new audiences, creating community-driven performances with a tangible social presence and lasting impact.
It enables the rizhomatic growth of projects through mentoring and training of personnel into autonomous creative teams, creating a memetic system of cultural replication, variation and inheritance.

Daniele Poidomani is one of Australia’s leading giant puppet artists. He is versatile and ambitious with skills spanning design, construction, performance, facilitation and direction.

Renowned for his many works created for Snuff Puppets in his role as Associate Artist since 1998, Daniele has led many giant puppet making projects in Australia and overseas, culminating in large-scale performances and involving broad community participation.

Most recent are his Viktor the Giant for Woodford Folk Festival (2015), Parade through Macau, ‘Latin City’ (2013), as well as his People Puppet Projects with Snuff Puppets in Malaysia (GeorgeTown Festival, 2016), Thailand (collaborating with social activist theatre company Gabfai, 2012), and Taiwan (LOHAS International Art Festival, 2013).

Daniele has been an integral collaborator on Woodford Folk Festival’s Fire Event for the past 3 years. He is artist associate of Adelaide based company, Open Space and has had continuing involvement with the Village Festival since its inception. He has led the creative team to build the animated floats that feature in the The Falls Festival’s annual Fiesta Parade in Lorne since 2007.

Engaged as a designer he has collaborated with a vast array of theatre and music companies including Polyglot Theatre, Papermoon (Indonesia) and Galerie Knap (Netherlands), Regurgitator, AAO, The Town Bikes, Aphid, Somebody’s Daughter, Tuida (S Korea), and Point of View (Macau)

Olga Rubio Garcia is a theatre maker, facilitator and performer. Director and creator of site specific theatre. Visual artist, musician, instigator of social/collective initiatives. Explorer.

Olga is a Spanish multidisciplinary arts practitioner based in Australia. She specialises in Improvisation and Playback Theatre and has worked internationally, performing and teaching theatre processes for self discovery, growth and empowerment for individuals and communities in Sri Lanka, Spain and Australia.

Of an adventurous nature and motivated by a strong inter-cultural curiosity, Olga continues travelling the world, learning, sharing and creating connections.

The Elders @ The Planting 2016 + Woodford Folk Festival 2016-17
- Assistant Director

The Monsters @ Woodford Folk Festival 2015-16
- Director

Nothing to declare. Yet :)

The Elders @ The Planting 2016 + Woodford Folk Festival 2016-17
- Assistant Director

The Monsters @ Woodford Folk Festival 2015-16
- Director

Nothing to declare yet! :)

www.kikivancaspel.com

TENDON - Assistant Designer and Maker