Author: Nigel Helyer
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Songs from the UnderWorld_v3
Songs UnderWorld_V3 at the siva)(zona a.k.a. grey) (area Space for contemporary and media art, Korčula, Croatia. Songs from the UnderWorld has entered its third reincarnation at the siva)(zona gallery, Korčula, Croatia. The work continues to examine the issue of death from the perspective of the myth of Orpheus and his journey into the Underworld and…
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Architecture for Bees; Bees for Architecture
Architecture for Bees and Bees for Architecture is a three day workshop at the Kaisanemi Botanical Gardens, Helsinki, Finland offered by Australian artist Dr. Nigel Helyer as part of the ongoing Melliferopolis urban bee project. Architecture for Bees and Bees for Architecture is a project that considers the architectural capacities and potentials of colonial bees…
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Bristle
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Breathless; Take a Deep Breath
Take a Deep Breath; Breathless My creative practice is increasingly focussed upon bringing together the physical and ecological environments together with our social and cultural contexts. Using the media of multichannel sound installation; data sonification and sonic cartography these hybrid works are designed to create new forms of sonic space in which it is possible…
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Public Art concepts
Whilst the Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture site is full of large scale public art and environmental projects they are of course the tip of the iceberg. Man proposes and God disposes as the saying goes; or in the realm of architectural and public art competitions the final call may not be 100% divine. So here…
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An Atlas of Small Voyages
LAND, a sure footing, a Terra Firma, our groundedness. But my story is somewhat different, nomadic and fluid. Like Odysseus, who after all that hard travel and the spat with the suitors, was told to shoulder a ship’s oar and walk inland until he found a place where no-one could recognise the oar ~ at…
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Ars Memoriae Mexicana
The outstretched palm, that of the Buddha etched with the precious objects, of Islam, warding off evil; of Christ before Golgotha, of a Toureg woman tattooed in cyphers or a simple punctum ~ Stop! The mind works too fast for logic, it sifts, sorts and assembles metaphors, associations and gestalts, this hand I had seen…
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Float like a Butterfly; Sting like a Bee
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Supereste ut Pugnatis (Pugnatis) ut Supereste
Supereste ut Pugnatis (Fight to Live) was the motto of the Chemical Defence Establishment* and is the metaphorical banner of a work developed for the SemiPermeable+ exhibition mounted by SymbioticA at the PowerHouse Museum, Sydney as part of ISEA2013. The work examines the intersection between the Visual Arts and Bio-Sciences and focuses on the development…
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Songs from the UnderWorld_V2