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Kinetik Collective is an emerging independent performance group of multidisciplinary artists based between Adelaide (Kaurna Country) and Melbourne (Naarm) . Led by director and Co-Founder Clara Solly-Slade, the collective consists of designer and collective Co-Founder Bianka Kennedy, dancer Zoë Dunwoodie, musician and composer Mat Morrison, and artist/technologist Max Brading. The collective works with Sydney based creative producer Malcolm Whittaker across all aspects of their work as a company.
The Collective formed in 2021 when Bianka and Clara join in a partnership and create interrogate theatre making with strong digital elements. By 2025 we have grown to form a structure with five core artists and are interested in creating work multi-disciplinary and experimental capacity.
Kinetik Collective employs an exploratory process to create ambitious performance work with a diverse range of artists, makers and thinkers. Our work is active, experimental and unexpected, and emerging technologies are regularly used as part of our contemporary aesthetics.
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Clara Solly-Slade
Clara Solly-Slade graduated from the acting stream of The Adelaide College of the Arts (2013). In 2017 she trained in Italy with La Mama Experimental Theatre Company at their International Directors Symposium.
Clara was awarded the Helpmann Academy’s Neil Curnow Award (2018) where she interned in the USA with The H.E.A.T Collective (Healing. Education. Activism. Theatre), Working Classroom and continued her work with La Mama Experimental Theatre Company. Clara worked for two years full time as an Emerging Director Fellow with the State Theatre Company of South Australia and State Opera of South Australia (2019-2020) through the support of The Diana and James Ramsey Foundation and the Helpmann Academy. Co-Founder of Independent Company The Kinetik Collective she Directed ‘Kill Climate Deniers’ in 2022 as part of The State Theatre Company of South Australia’s Stateside Program’. Clara Co-Directed ‘The River that Ran up Hill' with Andy Packer for Slingsby Theatre Company presented in the 2023 Adelaide Festival and at The Sydney Opera House in 2024, ‘Hypercolour Miscellaneous Bistro Buffet’ with Dave Court for Slow Mango and The Bait Fridge as a part of Illuminate Festival and The Sight with Victoria Falconer for Dark Mofo. She directed The Kinetik Collective's latest work ‘My Hair is Thinning' by Anthony Nocera which was presented at Brand X in Sydney in there Flying Nun Residency Season.
She is Co-Director of newly founded BARK Communications and has been working in collaboration with Marthakal Homelands Resource Centre Aborigional Corpouration in East Arnhem Land to develop community driven story-telling resources.
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Max Brading
Max is an artist, musician and scavenger; building a creative practice around the mediation technology has on our behaviours, relations and understanding of self.
They blend emerging and legacy technology to create systems that feedback and consume themselves, drawing upon their extensive archive of creative outputs and digital footprint scraped from web and social media.
As a systems designer Max collaborates with other artists to develop interactive installations and exhibits and has supported installations at MOD, Adelaide Festival Centre and AGSA.
Max's work as a freelance creative has an extensive portfolio of music videos, moving image and live performance works.
Max is cofounder of BARK Communications with Clara Solly-Slade and has brought their skills in digital and multimedia design into the health, wellbeing and education space; working with community groups in North East Arnhem Land to create digital resources and co-designed works.
Within Kinetik Collective Max collaborates across the group injecting their special interests into creative developments through concept development, technical design and lighting design.
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https://www.barkcommunications.com.au
Mat Morison
Adelaide based musician and community arts facilitator, Mat Morison (he/they), is always looking for new ways to forge connections
between disparate styles and ideas. Originally training in jazz piano, Mat has since taken their skills in improvisation and applied it to a wide variety of pursuits, from film and theatre composition, to performance art, Auslan interpreting, community arts facilitating, coding, and language making.
Mat performs regularly with musical outfit Slowmango, and performance art group The Bait Fridge, and is the Coordinator of Music at disability arts organisation Tutti Arts. They also work in Deaf adult education classes at TAFE SA, and contribute to a number of other community arts organisations such as Girls Rock! Adelaide, Open Space Contemporary Arts, and MUD. In 2025 Mat will be undertaking 2 week residency opportunity in Seoul, South Korea presented in collaboration with Co-Art Studio and ArtSpace Seochon.
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Bianka Kennedy
Bianka is a designer + maker with a diverse practice, working across the stage, screen and gallery settings. Bianka has been Head of Prop Making for the multi award winning children’s TV series Beep and Mort, lectured in the creative industries division of Adelaide College of the Arts, is Co-Founder of Kinetik Collective and operates a workshop from Fab, the former acclaimed George Street Studios. Bianka designed the 2025 Dream Big Festival. Bianka’s design for State Theatre Company of South Australia’s 2019 sold-out season of Animal Farm was a national finalist in the Australian Production Guild’s awards for emerging designer for live performance. Her debut solo exhibition Sugar won an Adelaide Fringe 2021 visual arts award and was an industry example of iintegrating accessibility into the design, fabrication and exhibition of an art experience. Her accessible theatre designs have also been recognised with a 2022 Ruby Award.
Permanent public artworks can be found in Adelaide and in the Kangaroo Island Sculpture Trail. Collaborators include Warner Brothers, Windmill Theatre, Windmill Picture + ABC, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Theatre Republic, Kinetik Collective, Crossover (London) + Adelaide Fringe, Largent Studio (New York) +FOMO, Fox Creek + Garden of Unearthly Delights, SA Water, SA Tourism Commission, SA Power Networks, Adelaide City Council, independent theatre and private commissions.
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Zoe Dunwoodie
Zoë is a performing artist and emerging maker currently living and working on Kaurna Yerta. She studied at the New Zealand School of
Dance graduating in 2011 with a Diploma in Dance Performance and is a NZSD Distinguished Alumni for 2021.
After been offered a position at Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) in 2012, Zoë worked full-time and as a guest dancer until 2020 under the directorship of Garry Stewart. As an ADT dancer and independent artist, Zoë has toured nationally and internationally, and worked with local and international choreographers including Daniel Jaber (‘Nought’ and ‘Dirt’) and Ina Christel Johannessen (‘North’).
Whilst living in SA, Zoë has also performed with local companies in children’s theatre and puppetry shows including Patch Theatre
Company ('Home' and 'I Wish...'), Windmill Theatre Co ('Grug' and 'Bluey’s Big Play') and Windmill Pictures ('Beep and Mort: Season 1 and Season 2’).
Zoë is an emerging maker and in 2023 she choreographed ‘Co-Incident’ which featured fourteen AC Arts students. She also completed a first-stage development for her new dance theatre work ‘Llama’, which deals with motherhood, transformation, and intergenerational peculiarities. When she isn’t performing, Zoë enjoys teaching people of all ages and abilities within a wide range of dance organisations, institutions, and studios.
Marcus Leuend
Marcus Louend is a dancer/performer seeking to decentralise their movement and art practice through collective organisation. Using equitable social models, their ambition is to help educate individuals seeking deeper connection and understanding to movement and its radical potential physically, emotionally, and socially.
Marcus currently works with Restless Dance Theatre, Australia's leading company working with neurodiverse and disabled artists, as a tutor and company guest artist. This partnership continuously offers the capacity to inclusively work with the broader community, artists and non-artists, making movement accessible to everyone and diversifying future practices.
As a mentor, creator, and performer, this may look like the dismantling of personal, social, structural, and systemic barriers, in order to recalibrate a somatic experience into a sustainable practice.
Malcome Whittaker
Malcolm Whittaker (b. xxxx) works as an artist, writer, researcher, performer, producer and teacher. He does this in solo pursuits, as a member of re:group performance collective and Shammgods, and in collaboration with other artists and non-artists on a project by project basis. His work as an artist is mostly made and executed through the engagement of participants and collaborators in the framing of play spaces that adopt social forms and rituals from popular culture and the everyday. His projects have taken the form of theatre and gallery situations, site-specific and public interventions, performance lectures, film shoots, phone calls, support groups, radio programs, elevator rides, teeth-brushing services, walks in the park, games of chess, gift shops, handshakes, newspapers, fashion labels, letters in the mail, digging holes in the dirt and the borrowing of books from the library. He has made and presented work extensively across Australia, as well as in the UK, Finland and Europe. He has done so through a range of initiatives and organisations, including Performance Space (Sydney), Arts House (Melbourne), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), State Library of NSW, Art Gallery of NSW, The Wheeler Centre (Melbourne), Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney Biennale, Vitalstatistix (Adelaide), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney Opera House, Mona Foma (Hobart), ANTI Festival (Kuopio), Next Wave Festival (Melbourne), Proximity Festival (Perth), World Theatre Festival (Brisbane), Junction Arts Festival (Launceston), Field Theory (Melbourne), Griffin Theatre Company, Belvoir St. Theatre, Merrigong Theatre Company (Wollongong), Belvoir St. Theatre, Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Urban Theatre Projects (Western Sydney), University of Technology Sydney, Berlin Performing Arts Festival, Prague Quadrennial, Punctum (Castlemaine), Country Arts SA, Salamanca Arts Centre (Hobart), Mona Foma (Tasmania), Bleach Festival (Gold Coast), Big Anxiety Festival (Sydney), Brand X (Sydney) and Cementa (Kandos).
Malcolm holds a PhD from The University of Wollongong, where he has also worked as a sessional teacher of art theory and practice since 2014. He has been a member of the Artistic Directorate of PACT Centre for Emerging Arts since 2020.
