TJ Eckleberg
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TJ Eckleberg is the Artistic Director at Shopfront, an Australian contemporary arts centre.
His projects fuse technology and multi-media across disciplines, with an immersive approach to theatre – incorporating sound design, organic approaches to lighting, design and movement. In 1999 his experiences with Welfare State International led him to create two large-scale site specific performances with boys at Birrong Boys High School – one of Sydney’s tougher schools. In his time at Shopfront he has directed CODA (2003) with residents of the Juvenile Justice system; How Sachi Lost Hs Leg (2004 - a site specific spectacular combining puppetry and Capoeira); Wadya call me? (2004 – in a back lane, incorporating a 4 x 4m rolling screen, puppetry, live radio broadcast, and 19m graffiti wall created during the performance). He is currently directing Angels in the Architecture – creating an aerial urban ghetto and song cycle with an integrated ensemble of performers with and without disabilities. He is also a producer, poet and musician.
The director's name comes from Dr. T.J. Eckleberg, a fictional oculist in the Great Gatsby. He has long since left the scene, but he left behind a massive pair of eyes with half spectacles, which watch over the "valley of ashes" (Corona Ash Dumps). The eyes symbolize God lamenting the moral decay and pollution of the 1920s.
[edit] Past Albums
- Illumineon, 2003
- SUPERHYDRATED, 2000
- Waiting Room (EP), 1997
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