Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski
Opening 6-8pm Friday 7 October 2016
Open 11am - 5pm Friday - Sunday 8 - 23 October 2016
Artists' talk 3pm Saturday 22 October 2016
and the earth sighed re-imagines the relationship between nature and culture by presenting
aerial views of Australian landscapes and waterways dynamically manipulated in
ways that reveal their underlying fragility. This immersive video and sound
environment encourages reflection on our relationship to nature and technology.
The camera drifts across degraded landscapes and
rolling sand hills, seeking out the fragile interfaces, the edges, between
lands lost to the desert and land fending off the relentless encroachment of
sand and fire.
The moving landscapes are sometimes embedded with
symbols and text. The intention is to configure the land as active and to
imagine it being able to speak and make comment about human impacts upon it. We
worked with Alex Davies to create an ambient soundscape that fosters engagement
and contemplation about the impact of climate change on natural ecologies.
Credits:
This project has been
supported by a Creative Australia development grant from the Australia
Council’s Emerging and Experimental Arts program.
Audio design: Alex Davies
Thanks to:
Julianne Pierce
Marko Peljhan, C-Astral
Aerospace Slovenia, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia
Mike Manning, Synergy Positioning
Systems NZ
Professor Ann
Henderson-Sellers
Performance Space, Sydney
Creative Practice Lab team
at the Io Myers Studio, UNSW
The Australian Marine
Conservation Society for use of Dean Miller footage
Leon Cmielewski is a Senior
Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney
University.