MAKING TRAX

In 2004 a couple of itinerant lovers named Brian & Tara kicked off TRAX as a family partnership, establishing an arts company which coincided with the birth of their daughter. The warehouse loft that was their home by day was also a stage at night and over the years the company grew producing live performance & new media projects often in partnership with people in communities.

TRAX initiates projects with organisations, government agencies, businesses and individuals and seeks to build authentic relationships through cultural enquiry. Working across genres from theatre to digital cinema and specialising in site-specific work, our interests are rooted in the arts, community and social justice.

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MANIFESTERING

In general terms, we are of the persuasion that new millennium societies are sorely missing functional ways of belonging and practicing collectivity. We share a sense of solidarity with those who experience forms of dislocation. We are not interested in using the arts as a development tool on demographics of people highlighted solely for their deficits, or institutionally imposed definitions of community. In measuring our neighbours through crime and income census data, well-intentioned interventions often overlook other areas of cultural crisis or beauty.

We like to acknowledge those spaces between people and seek to permeate barriers by creating opportunities to share power. Our contribution in this area is to democratise storytelling through New Media and afford it the highest production values and developmental attention we are resourced to achieve. We also delight in the fact that we are so close to the source of the stories we amplify, that they are mutually regarded as partnerships.

The working environments we establish enable equal emphasis on skill acquisition and artistic exploration; they are both culturally sensitive and fiercely creative. The bar is set high for artistic production values, but with a passion for research, we make a concerted effort to look after our process and measure the outcomes.

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THIS WEBSITE

Our front page is a Splash Gallery collection of diverse nibblets. In other websites you have to drill down through a menu structure to get to the goods, here if you see something you like in the Splash Gallery you open & explore the larger project it is a part of.