Author: Nigel Helyer
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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
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Songs from the UnderWorld
My practice is increasingly focused on bringing together the physical and ecological environment 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 to experience, examine and reflect upon the…
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Under the Icecap
Under the IceCap. Dr. Nigel Llwyd William Helyer and Dr. Mary-Anne Lea Maquarie University & University of Tasmania Contact: Dr. Helyer https://www.sonicobjects.com Contact: Dr Mary-Anne Lea http://www.imas.utas.edu.au/people/profiles/current-staff/mary-anne-lea Abstract. Under the IceCap is one of a series of creative outcomes resulting from the Bio_Logging Art + Science project at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic…
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BeeWork
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Milk and Honey
Milk and Honey is a new eight channel sound installation commissioned for SiteWorks by the Bundanon Trust. The work is installed in the music room of the old Homestead and incorporated the Steinway piano. A short documentary video of Milk and Honey (put together by Mike Leggett) that shows the disposition of the audio actuators.…