July 1, 2019

Interviewed by the London Sinfonietta about working on the animations, found footage and collaged film combined with text projections made for the opera ‘The Garden’ by composer Richard Ayres (performed by the London Sinfonietta).

https://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/stories/martha-colburn-conversation

Supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds voor de Podium Kunst and Mondriaan Fund.

Jun 3rd- 8th 2019

‘Skelehellavision’ screens in the World Festival of Animated Film – ANIMAFEST – short and feature film edition. Zagreb, Croatia.
www.animafest.hr

March 11th- May 17th 2019

Selected as a Project Room artist at Headlands Center For the Arts Residency Program.

http://www.headlands.org/artist/martha-colburn/

May 4th and 5th 2019

‘Triumph of the Wild’ (2019) screens with live improvisation by composers Raven Chacon and
Du Yun at the ‘Sweet Land Concert Workshop’ at LA Dance Projects.
Sweet Land brings together two composers/librettist teams—Raven Chacon and Du Yun, Douglas Kearney and Aja Couchois Duncan—to create a multiperspectival opera which explores the myths of American identity, directed by Yuval Sharon.

For more information on this upcoming production:
https://theindustryla.org/projects/sweet-land/

April 30th 2019

Book released with an interview and stills – included in the chapter : Miriam Harris – The Expressive Power of Experimental Digital Animation.

Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital, focuses on both experimental animation’s deep roots in the twentieth century, and its current position in the twenty-first century media landscape. Acknowledging that process is a fundamental operation underlining experimental practice, the book includes not only chapters by international academics, but also interviews with well-known experimental animation practitioners such as William Kentridge, Jodie Mack, Larry Cuba, Martha Colburn and Max Hattler.

https://www.routledge.com/Experimental-Animation-From-Analogue-to-Digital-1st-Edition/Harris-Husbands-Taberham/p/book/9781138702981