isobel dryburgh
curator | producer | writer
Between 2019 and 2022, Isobel worked at Veem House for Performance, programming experimental, international and emerging artists for the stage. Alongside programming existing work she arranged thematic events, workshops and reading groups (Long Now Lab: Worldbuilding, Reading Group: Acts of Imagination, Fluid Matters with Elowise Vandenbroecke, Unverifiable Realities with TILT, Reading Group: Material Grounds). Extending on Veem House's rich avant garde history Isobel was able to foster experimentation on stage and connectivity amongst audiences.
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​Prior to working at Veem House, she curated an evening of performanes, Home Entertainment, at Frascati in 2018, founded the performance series Veronica, out of her home in 2017 and was one of the co-founders of PLAZA, an artist run event space in Auckland, Aotearoa in 2013.
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"Aquascope", a live script reading, by Emil Scheffmann, at Veronica
in 2017. Photo: Lucy von Sturmer.
"We are Nature defending itself", booklaunch, in collaboration with Disobedient Art School and Veem House. 2022.
"Long Now Lab: Worldbuilding", with guest Ekim Tan. Veem House, 2023.
"Reading Group: Material Grounds". Four Sisters and Veem House. 2021.
"Re-heating a Corpse" by Annefleur Schep at Veronica in March, 2017.
Photo: Randy Fokke.
"Reading Group: Acts of Imagination". Veem House. 2020.
"Long Now Lab: Worldbuilding", with guest Alex Cromer. Veem House. 2022.
Ne Mosquito Pas, 2021, presented at Veem House in collaboration with De Brakke Grond.
"A Warm Event", Das Theatre 2015. Image courtesy of Das Theatre. Photo: Thomas Lenden.
"Frontside" by Joseph Griffen, at PLAZA, 2013. Photo: Joseph Griffen.
"Personal Hero" by Billie Popovic at PLAZA, 2013. Photo: Billie Popovic.
"Motherburgh" at Ferari, 2012, Auckland, NZ. Photo: Bob van der Wal. This performative intervention was created by Isobel Dryburgh and her brother Emil Scheffmann.
"Beige" by Isobel Dryburgh and Mark Harvey as part of Auckland City Council's, The Living Room, curated by Pontus Kyander. Auckland, 2010. The Living Room paired young artists with choreographers, Isobel was the artist in this pair. Image courtesy of Auckland City Council.
