Category: Sculpture
-
Freeze Frame; Cinema and the Afterlife.
Quelle est votre plus grand ambition dans la vie? Devenire immortel et puis mourir. Jean-Luc Godard, À bout de souffle 1960. Fictionalising fiction. As a thirteen-year-old lad, I along with a couple of friends, were once left to kick our heels for the day in central London —we were the crew in a sailing regatta…
-
BioSphere/DataSphere
The BioSphere|DataSphere project acknowledges the deep, longstanding and ongoing connection of the Palawa and Pakana people to the wild, beautiful coast and sea country where the Tasman Fracture Marine Park is situated. Between 2021 and 2024 artist Nigel Helyer worked with an interdisciplinary and multi-agency, team of scientists researching the environmental productivity of the Tasman…
-
Oratorio and Heavy Metal
Oratorio and Heavy Metal
-
The Oratorio for a Million Souls
The Oratorio for a Million Souls is a major feature of the European Capital of Culture, Leeuwarden (Fryslan) 2018 Silence of the Bees programme. The project consists of bee listening architectures constructed in three European botanical gardens, located in Buitenpost (Fryslan) and Emden and Oldenburg (Germany).
-
BioPod
The BioPods project was developed for the Bundanon Trust annual Siteworks 2014 festival but is also the debut project of When Art meets Science a three year ARC (Australian Research Council) project conducted between the artist and cultural and environmental researchers at Macquarie University; with The Bundanon Trust and the Australia Council for the Arts…
-
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…
-
Float like a Butterfly; Sting like a Bee
-
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…
-
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…
-
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.…