Marco Cher-Gibard
Marco Cher-Gibard (b. Auckland, 1983), is an artist working with sound. His practice often incorporates software design and favours live process, which can be seen in his practice as an improviser and within other performance contexts. He is a diverse and constant collaborator working across a spectrum of projects (performance, installation, composition, improvisation, community and design) who explores the world, context and social relations through the medium of sound.
Marco has performed across Australia and internationally including France, Japan, Indonesia, Korea and Taiwan. In 2016 Marco’s collaboration with Ben Speth, sister, premiered ‘work’ for the Bendigo International Festival for Exploratory Music. Other notable collaborations include a duo with Rosalind Hall (modified saxophone), where Marco performs using custom built video sampler.
2016 sound designs included Back to Back Theatre’s Lady Eats Apple as part of the Melbourne Festival 2016 and Shian Law’s Epic Theatre, for Sydney Dance Company. Other recent achievements include a greenroom award for composition and sound design with David Chisholm for I am a Miracle (Malthouse Theatre), and sound designs for Chunky Move, Ridiculusmus, Zoe Scoglio and Samara Hersch.
Marco has undertaken residencies in central Java, Indonesia, Campbletown Arts Centre (NSW) and Foodcourt Artspace, amongst others. He performed in Tino Seghal’s This is so contemporary at Art Gallery NSW (2014), exhibited in Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria (2013–14) and screened Blue Light Running (2010) at Art Not Apart festival in Canberra (2014).
Performances (Music)
2016 Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music – sister – Bendigo, Australia
2016 Avantwhatever, Solo, East Brunswick, Australia.
2015 Feedback and Filterlife – sister LP Launch. Brunswick, Australia
2015 Blockhaus DY10 – Solo. Nantes, France.
2014 Minora Festival #1 - guest performance with Bulu Babi, Minora, Central Java, Indonesia.
2013 Test Tone 99 – Solo, Tokyo, Japan.
2013 Now NOW Series #9 – Solo, Sydney.
2013 Conduit Arts – Solo, Melbourne.
2013 Make it up Club - fontaine. Melbourne.
2012 Video Hits – Time Machine Festival, Serial Space, Sydney
2012 Racket 19 – Solo, Miss Libertine’s, Melbourne
2011 Dotolim Concert Series 22 – Solo, Dotolim, Seoul, South Korea
2011 Now Now Series 9 – Solo, Serial Space, Sydney
2011 Make It Up Club – Darco, Hand Made Music Festival, Melbourne
2011 Rainbow Serpent – Solo (AV), Victoria
2010 Untrained – Dancer for Lucy Guerin Inc, Awesome Festival, Perth
2010 Black Snail Gallery – Solo, Tainan, Taiwan
2010 Ecole Cafe, Taipei – Solo (AV), Taiwan
2010 Victor Lancaster 10 year Anniversary Performance – Duo with Victor,
Melbourne
2010 Corporeal Vapour - Marco & Rosalind(AV), RMIT School of Art Gallery,
Melbourne
Performance (Other)
2015 Sound Walk, Out Hear / Summersalt Festival.
2014 This is so Contemporary, Tino Seghal 2004. Art Gallery of New South Wales.
2010 Untrained, Lucy Guerin. AWESOME International Arts Festival, Perth.
Residencies
2014 Drawbridge, with Polyglot Theatre and Paper Moon, Tutup Ngisor Padepokan & Sangaar Bangun Budaya, Indonesia
2014 Room Noise, Campbelltown Community Arts Centre, Campbelltown.
2012 WORM Studios, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2010 School of Art Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne.
2009 First Site Gallery, Melbourne.
Discography
2012 Hailin, Worm Records, Free Music Archive.
2012 Rehab, Worm Records, Free Music Archive.
2011 Fontaine: Tracks 1-7, CDR
Exhibitions / Group Exhibitions / Screenings
2014 Blue Light Running (2010), The Spacious Present, Art Not Apart 2014, Canberra.
2013/14 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2012 Link VI RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Pop Void What is Music?/Circle Jerk, Melbourne
2010 Always Moving Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2009 Boys Girls Machines Open Space , Melbourne
2007 Intercept First Site Gallery, Melbourne
Sound Design
2016 Epic Theatre, Shian Law. Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed season, Carraigeworks.
2016 Lady Eats Apple, Back to Back Theatre. Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre Melbourne.
2016 Dybbuk, Samara Hersch, Artist curated event for Malthouse Theatre.
2016 Sex & Death, Samara Hersch, Arts House Festival of Live Art.
2015 Give Me Your Love, Ridiculusmus. Arts House
2015 MASS, Zoe Scoglio for Field Theory.
2015 I am a Miracle, Malthouse Theatre.
2015 Depth of Field, Chunky Move. Dance Massive
2013 Super Discount, Back to Back Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company / Malthouse Theatre, Sydney & Melbourne.
2013 CUSP – Greg More, for OOM Creative, Object Gallery, Sydney
2012 NOA, La Mamma Theatrea directed by Samara Hersch
2012 Everybody Footscray Drill Hall, Snuff Puppets
2012 Affinity Footscray Community Arts Centre directed by Ben Speth
2010 Flowing Data Melbourne International Design Fair, Melbourne & Online
2010 Unearthed Short Film, written and directed by David Short.
2009 Left from Right Short Film, Written and Directed by David Short
2009 October Video Installation by Mark Reid
2009 Doppleganer National Portrait Gallery, Online
Education
2011 Jitter Summer School, University of California, Berkeley.
2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sound Art), First Class Honors, Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology.
2006 Certificate IV in Music Technology, Electronic Music Unit, Adelaide
University