Dennis Kratz

Bio: Sarah-Mace Dennis and Svenja Kratz are collaborative interdisciplinary artists whose work experiments with the possible interactions between diverse disciplines including photomedia, film, sound, installation, performance, interactive environments and critical and creative writing.

Using these media they have produced work both individually and in collaborative contexts for events and exhibitions in Brisbane , The Gold Coast, Newcastle , Sydney , Melbourne , Alice Springs , Perth , Washington and New York . Between them the artists have received funding for various projects from the Australia Council, Youth Arts Queensland, Artworkers Alliance, NAVA and Arts Queensland; and have been involved in experimental visual and sound art collectives.

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In 2004 the pair traveled to the regional NSW community of Hill End, where they undertook a seven week collaborative residency. There they began work on ‘Guided by Voices' a new media project dealing with presences, absences and the passing of time. On return from this residency they developed an interactive video installation called ‘To Rose (My Love)', which explored the mysterious death of a woman and her three children on her property at Triamble, situated approximately 45 kilometers from Hill End.  

In 2005 they were awarded a residency at the Petersham Town hall in Marrickville, where they teamed up with Sydney based public artist Graham Chalcroft to develop ‘Secrets of the City: Gumbramorra Swamp Thing!.' This experimental art event consisted of a series of workshops where participants created site specific public artworks and installations that mapped and interpreted stories pertaining to sites within the footprint of the former Gumbramorra Swamp that extended across the suburbs of Marrickville, Sydenham, Tempe , St Peters and Newtown .

Most recently Dennis Kratz have received funding from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts to develop Diorama: Constructing a Virtual Memory, a project that uses language as an entry point for exploring historical memory and the way that it is affected by an environment increasingly mediated by new technologies.