Tag: installation
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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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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.…
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Law of the Tongue
The Law of the Tongue ~ or the Sonic Whale. He who fights the monster should be careful lest he thereby becomes a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze into thee. Frederick Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil. The Sea and superstition go hand in hand. For centuries sailors…
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VoxAEther
VoxAEther has recently been on exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane and as part of the Asian Art Biennale at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan. The work consists of four laser-cut sculptural forms based upon the morphology and symmetry of microscopic Radiolaria, countless billions of which live in our oceans. …
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Adrift
I’m a Nomad not a Drifter, being Adrift is of course a different kettle of fish, as it implies an active surrender to the vagaries of the elements, be they maritime or psychological ~ I usually go for both! The Adrift project was conceived and realised for the Memory Flows exhibition at the CarriageWorks in…
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Preaching to the Converter
Exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW during Perspecta 1985 Preaching to the Converter combined Triwall Cardboard, Velvet and Cast Iron in a seven-metre flow across the Museum floor. A stage set of gigantic proportions, or rather a normal room viewed from the perspective of a child. Castles and reverberatory furnaces, a liquid river of…
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Virtual Spirit