tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291934162024-03-14T22:04:02.808+11:00SAMUEL JAMESVIDEO ARTIST/ PROJECTION DESIGNER/ PERFORMANCE FILMMAKERSamuel Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098498121555459294noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-60198429967919583962023-12-11T18:29:00.001+11:002023-12-11T18:29:50.169+11:00wormholes / osmosis / apparition<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD5FTuJpFnkUd5aIXBnQXpe9LQMlwJcaH78YNOpBGB9zBNhuq3BAhLCZiItYojZ6NgOzeJEMePiFUnBdGagPHgWFzCGOd88HKjqE3EhZ3b8SmHzeOPpBTAHoXQWvKW14eFncdn-kwNRRwTASXxtJqhp-i5H1Be6vI8jBhrt_lPRLz-Ro2Hn2jW/s8192/R5C_5023%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5464" data-original-width="8192" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD5FTuJpFnkUd5aIXBnQXpe9LQMlwJcaH78YNOpBGB9zBNhuq3BAhLCZiItYojZ6NgOzeJEMePiFUnBdGagPHgWFzCGOd88HKjqE3EhZ3b8SmHzeOPpBTAHoXQWvKW14eFncdn-kwNRRwTASXxtJqhp-i5H1Be6vI8jBhrt_lPRLz-Ro2Hn2jW/w400-h266/R5C_5023%20copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At The End of The Land - Talya Rubin</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These three words connect to the last three projects; AT THE END OF THE LAND (PICA Premiere, Talya Rubin), PREPARING GROUND (HOTA industry showing, Blakdance with Marilyn Miller, Katina Olsen and Jasmin Sheppard) and COMPLICATION OF LYREBIRDS (INDance, Sydney Dance season, Jasmin Sheppard). Parallel universes are offering insight into our projected futures, cellular cosmologies meeting in confluence to redraw bodies of indigenous knowledge and adopted disguises we use when mind crashed by a mono-cultural state. Each of these projects in the last three months have proposed the deepest and most complex questions for social and artistic practice at the end of 2023 but all in a very positive trajectory. Try to ignore the most painful things we are suffering to project an original sphere, a reformed cognitive space for better futures. Performance art and installation finding urgency of action in the social redress of past consciousness, sometimes offering hope, sometimes harmonising to wavelengths of perpetual unrest.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the End of the Land included many experiments in perceptual holography, layers of consciousness with scrim projections and rewriting image scripts of dollshouse nightmares. Preparing Ground and Complication of Lyrebirds both used (out of necessity) single large projection covering both floor and backdrop with potentials for immersive, abstracted and split screen, composited imagery of natural forms.</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGG_hrQTGnBJ-cejOK_nQeomUCIBOuLbZq_H30slSfBbqHp1DN47EWRBWPSJfXi6Y5r1YdI9OqBHN-k6TwJdFpXa3T3sPzpPhQ5q93jEWl7jeFVqe7baDGNuII1HxKuxTv0VAnAKhvEd1NdiwH1NYVzYbIG2TXzschrTHG2yev4jMB3XZK-Kzz/s6000/R6II4433%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6000" data-original-width="4000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGG_hrQTGnBJ-cejOK_nQeomUCIBOuLbZq_H30slSfBbqHp1DN47EWRBWPSJfXi6Y5r1YdI9OqBHN-k6TwJdFpXa3T3sPzpPhQ5q93jEWl7jeFVqe7baDGNuII1HxKuxTv0VAnAKhvEd1NdiwH1NYVzYbIG2TXzschrTHG2yev4jMB3XZK-Kzz/w133-h200/R6II4433%20copy.jpg" width="133" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preparing Ground - Katina Olsen</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRsxy9EH7mhWslGbeI6nisPhhLgcrm1zbZGbS8FI3TauVQv_H5wQ-0s13Ez5cBRH1Uo0NZ8xfUy9QDy7OL24tZBr_rAaWJBaxZiMa5p3OSmpQ1VsU1zkGoAGlGIiyksBfyjQqxv79XyUutwHd9JKCgNC36iRGdS0rXlwGTFTyn0Nn2XMrM27c4/s5654/R6II3904.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3430" data-original-width="5654" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRsxy9EH7mhWslGbeI6nisPhhLgcrm1zbZGbS8FI3TauVQv_H5wQ-0s13Ez5cBRH1Uo0NZ8xfUy9QDy7OL24tZBr_rAaWJBaxZiMa5p3OSmpQ1VsU1zkGoAGlGIiyksBfyjQqxv79XyUutwHd9JKCgNC36iRGdS0rXlwGTFTyn0Nn2XMrM27c4/w200-h121/R6II3904.JPG" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Complication of Lyrebirds</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy4lJwOfmD1Dm0qd6nqqVZ32ZPxXVgvSOe6oBgvqc8rmaQT3gQc-ootB3LDd5FXB8NyOV9pYweogJALG9UCnFCFrU10R4MJ5HgHXMhnZF5Z2JOuKCwgawNB3t-laJLc3RJlKqbLKVOQIFVe5pq2EJEUhYZ4-U5EghE1mZBHL_q9QbsU8xNPJIS/s5714/R6II3916%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3608" data-original-width="5714" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy4lJwOfmD1Dm0qd6nqqVZ32ZPxXVgvSOe6oBgvqc8rmaQT3gQc-ootB3LDd5FXB8NyOV9pYweogJALG9UCnFCFrU10R4MJ5HgHXMhnZF5Z2JOuKCwgawNB3t-laJLc3RJlKqbLKVOQIFVe5pq2EJEUhYZ4-U5EghE1mZBHL_q9QbsU8xNPJIS/w200-h126/R6II3916%20copy.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">tech runs INDance</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><i>At the End of the Land,</i> Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 28/11-2/12/23</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Preparing Ground,</i> Home of the Arts Gold Coast, 22/10/23</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The Complication of Lyrebirds,</i> INDance, Sydney Dance Company, 24-26/8/23</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><p></p>Samuel Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098498121555459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-26430432273577026372023-05-25T12:41:00.007+10:002023-05-31T16:09:51.108+10:00ENERGY RETICULATIONS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhCyW8vub7zI-R_yhUPlFOED8krmGtGSzhW0jlnSTm7nSjWlKShj6Fys6CgDr8sKggPclkGy2e1rAEpaqqXPZ5uqChbXoOiuo5GCiijhPYKC-SPCAsAv08LKNe_jBMSYeuZlI96S04vgA-TI9RJeKujxwqeWWnC257BMUtPMOle4FyZq1i1w/s6000/Reticulations%20Rhodes4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3505" data-original-width="6000" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhCyW8vub7zI-R_yhUPlFOED8krmGtGSzhW0jlnSTm7nSjWlKShj6Fys6CgDr8sKggPclkGy2e1rAEpaqqXPZ5uqChbXoOiuo5GCiijhPYKC-SPCAsAv08LKNe_jBMSYeuZlI96S04vgA-TI9RJeKujxwqeWWnC257BMUtPMOle4FyZq1i1w/w400-h234/Reticulations%20Rhodes4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Energy Reticulations,</i> an artist commission from the City of Canada Bay on display at the Digital Gallery at <i>The Connection Rhodes</i> where I researched and mapped the pathways of renewable electricity supply from macro to micro scale of regional NSW, to greater Sydney, to local Rhodes, with the aim of unveiling the reality of “City of Canada Bay goes 100% Renewable”. Drawing maps with copper wire and reverse tracking the shapes over backgrounds of contemporary architecture meeting restored, polluted industrial environments on Sydney’s western harbours towards Parramatta. An exchange with council on it’s history of environmental management systems and power, these days The Connection is powered by 99kw of Solar Panels.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>100% Renewable in reality means, councils committing to 100% renewable energy companies who are making the transition happen in the next 20-30 years. 80% of NSW still currently runs on fossil fuel energy though wind and solar farms are being built as we speak across the regions, the percentages are slowly turning but there is a clean cut optimism in social marketing campaigns promoting utopian visions which I tried to simulate in the works.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> The first piece shows greater NSW network overlaid onto Canada Bay's degraded and regenerated waterway, the second shows a Western Sydney network overlaid onto a green corporate consciousness of Rhodes and the third shows the Rhodes local network over an immersive consciousness about sustainable energy. A</span>pproaching the utopian vision.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Digital Gallery Rhodes, 8 May - 11 June 2023</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/815186241?share=copy">link on Vimeo 4 mins</a><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXixFo6u-Vvl0SV9IQMSeCYSllnqktto8rCxrzeFD5j1DHM7kxX__5TCOjqVQiFU_jFr9Q5NJWVGYKbCUnG4vEUUkjXERy04rEjCwXjvL2tw09Au8oTf7ljrqWpuhhXLxnjiLmOt9rV_ibnUdBX7PxRkSp9Dp7_SVaEomDk_CStO0Xp_daCw/s3840/LKVInnheredsveien%20Subway1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXixFo6u-Vvl0SV9IQMSeCYSllnqktto8rCxrzeFD5j1DHM7kxX__5TCOjqVQiFU_jFr9Q5NJWVGYKbCUnG4vEUUkjXERy04rEjCwXjvL2tw09Au8oTf7ljrqWpuhhXLxnjiLmOt9rV_ibnUdBX7PxRkSp9Dp7_SVaEomDk_CStO0Xp_daCw/w640-h360/LKVInnheredsveien%20Subway1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A residency at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Trondheim, offering a blissful experiment for 6 weeks on the second floor of Mellomveien St - “the middle way”.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">It was a time to consolidate a 7 year practice of light drawing, spatial inhabitation and interaction to see what the future of it could be. The answer was: its endless. A human experiences a place/event for the first time and responds with movement drawing. A collection of 12 light investigations looking at social behaviour, everyday activity, mortal pathways becoming transcendent and existing in multidimensional aspects. The ‘light investigations’ are a collection of performative, conceptual-sensorial phenomena drawn by hand, composited with other surfaces and materials in video that become apparent through the way light hits them. Norwegian winter light providing 6-8 hours each day of perfect, low contrast semi-illumination.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Relatively trivial animations come from using urban materials compared to natural materials, for example when animating isolated, industrial objects because it can’t avoid the connoitation of industry and a type of manufacturing process, urban objects aren’t seen as pure form with large abstract potential. Minimalism being the result of modernism, living amongst the comfort of functional urban systems… it seems needless to make animations from these forms because it mostly refers to the industry which created it. To de-functionize an object gives it some potential for animation, so often that was my aim. In contrast, photographing natural forms offer an understanding of the systems which<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>operate on multiple levels - chemical, physically unique, organic, decompositional and part of a life cycle. Maybe this is the key in the search for animation material.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/channels/samueljames/783322299">https://vimeo.com/channels/samueljames/783322299</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA_KoMLH_tKAr01cC1QvavmnmfpRN8K709I7E02Lqpbsuuy-erNntdvgIW1ONyjMvtEXfsi3NncriVd1dBldC63Nr72BbQYfjrhc3eRZwQTw-ZIgh45z9SfKPlhS9sl-QjqMzYUcVmze8p_5BuaQ_8NoHdRWCkxTjTLXPtyo_4cefO0FvEKA/s3840/LKVPathwaystoImmunity2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA_KoMLH_tKAr01cC1QvavmnmfpRN8K709I7E02Lqpbsuuy-erNntdvgIW1ONyjMvtEXfsi3NncriVd1dBldC63Nr72BbQYfjrhc3eRZwQTw-ZIgh45z9SfKPlhS9sl-QjqMzYUcVmze8p_5BuaQ_8NoHdRWCkxTjTLXPtyo_4cefO0FvEKA/s320/LKVPathwaystoImmunity2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivpSNAjHLI-Oh_4t_olsLStcq44-37SjQgqLOQHy8e4S2aVrdmYExyne-GHxMYwjwMBNehJF8KrrjZ9xpyTCiqxw0iL22iyW8tx1_PbEUFaIjykIoyGU5_qnZc8tJYA9s3qwVQxm7Krq-2Zig7Ee4QSEYClhR-qlIUlYQzvZvtomeEHuEpvg/s320/LKVItsnever%20going%20to%20happen1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><br /></p></div><p><br /> </p>Samuel Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098498121555459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-85524951040678979212022-11-04T22:20:00.007+11:002022-11-09T22:28:42.183+11:00Dream Shutter - Quagmire of Representation<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOacJXnvgmxP77sCDvd8_4es3ImkAJNXgo3RTIZhO_7bfo5nzPlQaQISdfYk-22AM4XC1FoEGoWYX_s9BOU9jNu534KQVqnlfV2UYneuZGmrmiJv7kEG5H7SE5JLSE1GaNHJn-4ZV6TU0XAbeMkiOUfrI_8bGvidC6saj2ZFZQK38AY6Ip8w/s3840/DS%20Portal%201%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="979" data-original-width="3840" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOacJXnvgmxP77sCDvd8_4es3ImkAJNXgo3RTIZhO_7bfo5nzPlQaQISdfYk-22AM4XC1FoEGoWYX_s9BOU9jNu534KQVqnlfV2UYneuZGmrmiJv7kEG5H7SE5JLSE1GaNHJn-4ZV6TU0XAbeMkiOUfrI_8bGvidC6saj2ZFZQK38AY6Ip8w/w640-h165/DS%20Portal%201%20copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">There is the original, sensory Dream, only the person who dreamt it knows, then there is the telling of it, how to put it in words and what is missing in words and what can’t be expressed, then the translation of those words in an artist's interpretation which is re-configured in their own minds, this happens for the dreamer and artist alike, then the attempt to illustrate or in any way crudely represent the sensorial feeling of the dream, knowing and not knowing the dreamer to varying degrees, the talent to depict the original and what is reimagined, knowing and not knowing what is lost in translation, what is forgotten by the original dreamer and remembered in reaction to a distorted recreation of the dream, what is remembered or forgotten by the dreamer in the first place, what they are willing to share and what remains hidden, what is retained and re-dreamed by the audience, what is hidden by artist and audience within their own unconscious.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Dream Shutter - Kantanka Creative (Director, Carlos Gomes) </i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Bankstown Biennale, Incubate Artist Studios 2-5th March 2022</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh0-MtniCGAE9huSfzOdMOtAw8aCaTeYFR5d62u36eWGDVjgitxL3tBzhBU9aj7yYdsnZSbdrdz_p_P_hiANhFXzmYKJ5raFz2fAJP3MSUZ8gGHhbOKvd0bL3cXyY3I40g8QVBhJwCXB-BZVbhF1-CAYNbQwu8wUJ1am3AhqVid5eTywWiJQ/s3840/DSKingfisher%20drones2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh0-MtniCGAE9huSfzOdMOtAw8aCaTeYFR5d62u36eWGDVjgitxL3tBzhBU9aj7yYdsnZSbdrdz_p_P_hiANhFXzmYKJ5raFz2fAJP3MSUZ8gGHhbOKvd0bL3cXyY3I40g8QVBhJwCXB-BZVbhF1-CAYNbQwu8wUJ1am3AhqVid5eTywWiJQ/w320-h180/DSKingfisher%20drones2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dying bird drones</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0HxToJNCpAXmog3lN1mLIsyYLIv2j5saNNMe0lK8fvb_PWNTwHKWiBQ2Yldt8l98_qSyxHtH2DxhETg_E7Ysqom3R1ca5VMJg7zP2VpLReNnfYyzFA9MuvjtZV7NtXc-j6uKSGB6jPkB8dbSxn-Mqj7ZHHg-cIEKTGJqF6vDjedEJBnj-5w/s3840/DSThree%20Knives%20%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0HxToJNCpAXmog3lN1mLIsyYLIv2j5saNNMe0lK8fvb_PWNTwHKWiBQ2Yldt8l98_qSyxHtH2DxhETg_E7Ysqom3R1ca5VMJg7zP2VpLReNnfYyzFA9MuvjtZV7NtXc-j6uKSGB6jPkB8dbSxn-Mqj7ZHHg-cIEKTGJqF6vDjedEJBnj-5w/s320/DSThree%20Knives%20%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three Knives</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocs2D7aRgFlYj_IRQRcxZ0qYE84ppI-pNdblsTcKteqod32DOgIn5XuIIdBeMWrnLLtd5uaPiXUh-XM2zlcJvHcJ861wtzDGrHgRyhrnwlRHyJnFIVK_CYECDv_rLgiSe8p-cZtIWfz_kDAO9zPUoFwgSRxWeRJDqH_HmJR7195baNvbxKQ/s6000/ds%20box9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3554" data-original-width="6000" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocs2D7aRgFlYj_IRQRcxZ0qYE84ppI-pNdblsTcKteqod32DOgIn5XuIIdBeMWrnLLtd5uaPiXUh-XM2zlcJvHcJ861wtzDGrHgRyhrnwlRHyJnFIVK_CYECDv_rLgiSe8p-cZtIWfz_kDAO9zPUoFwgSRxWeRJDqH_HmJR7195baNvbxKQ/s320/ds%20box9.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Katia Molino with the mirror cabinet</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>Samuel Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098498121555459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-7744603862612363472022-08-10T18:52:00.005+10:002023-04-01T18:48:28.350+11:00Heart on the wind<p> </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRxs__PlZJ5W_1b-aoIOPeJNY3WwoJVh72i59yFoURNlXxApPMZgkvKTYrziIINz1Tq1KksO02YklmfmuXz5StgkgdWpvsrJokE_3y3YJCRpHUQzUWh2ludXPneeb4PeelaFFhdsW0DQwFcXPAD63cmodWZZ3URMooxlPPmhT4-nc01gYrnw/s5678/OigallFrontL1040041%20copy.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5678" data-original-width="3796" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRxs__PlZJ5W_1b-aoIOPeJNY3WwoJVh72i59yFoURNlXxApPMZgkvKTYrziIINz1Tq1KksO02YklmfmuXz5StgkgdWpvsrJokE_3y3YJCRpHUQzUWh2ludXPneeb4PeelaFFhdsW0DQwFcXPAD63cmodWZZ3URMooxlPPmhT4-nc01gYrnw/w209-h320/OigallFrontL1040041%20copy.jpg" width="209" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oigåll Projects, Gertrude St Projection Festival</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i> ~ Panic Embrace</i> is the work originally made for Blik Blik, modified for Oigåll Projects - now in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, 122 Gertrude at Fitzroy Melbourne, Wurungeri country. Lots of events, talks and a street party. This is the second time projecting on hardened second hand clothing used as an expressionist canvas but the balance is sought between what is lost between image and surface and the gratuity of the visual depiction of terror. Sometimes it is what becomes invisible on the distorted canvas that provides its weight and poetics. The festival theme of “Radical Softness” gave validation to working subterraneously, looking for sense in place and community and using sensitivity as a mode of radical change amongst politics' of terror and the earth throwing us from its cradle.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And this week <i>Heartland, </i>a new album was launched at the Darwin Festival 2022 with my accompanying 55 minute amorphous patterning of natural spaces and objects. It was a privilege to work with multi dextrous violin virtuoso, Veronique Serret and Kalkadoon didge master William Barton taking us on a journey to the spiritual core of so-called Australia through traditional songlines and contemporary storytelling. We seem to be carried through this time flying on air currents, pushing and pulling us into the unknown. Witnessing art and performance as reflections of our own lives, mentored by nature and in this case on a journey </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">by eagle spirit, Kalkani. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Darwin Festival 4-21 August 2022</p><br /><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/736458700" target="_blank">Vimeo link to Panic Embrace GSPF</a></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Gertrude Street Projection Festival 27–31 July 2022</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.gspf.com.au/samuel-james" target="_blank">https://www.gspf.com.au/samuel-james</a></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRy21SPmEnn5_lyhavmSR2odfsG7Oct8xBWZa6WAbQuwrCT-dDtn4DpRTAj76JBEqjduSguNPBQeSYvJpv7XImd_W1FC-3-k0JHPrS4qsEyJHZXZahv_MqC0-ll8RegF8cedMXZn8FNgrddiw8g7p1GEjmyb-isAXjGyLA27xDhRT7XedweA/s1760/Heartland%20AdFestivalIMG_0179.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcJjrr1DGWdXyKc4E5nizcy2yXH4tT0KJGYTKHXdaBIk0NraThfh10RttZD43vnm88dRILZq8UCisVcLT-RMOhTSPLB6068IlZOvezVnrAOBiLeDZmUFRRJQX7e3uNRe-Y4JdA5HjaMaQ2MNEc2QisGaWSHvQrIFWo6knscQ_IjDNOYhhW4Q=w400-h225" width="400" /></a> <br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Taking time out at BigCi in February (Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives) to work on refined animation of natural forms, developing the concept of a fool's paradise by taking objects from their natural habitat and turning them into anthropomorphic, fantasy reformations which still tell something of their source, the stories of natural cycles and systems but through a colonised, appropriated lens. A child plays with nature fictions but also that kind of naivety can be destructive. I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>want to show the deformation which results from complacency - hybrid creatures evolve but at the expense of a destabilised ecosystem - devolving only in relation to our human needs but not necessarily for the post human world. Microbial and bacterial activity continue in a different form as the relational anthropocene vanishes.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I made seven photographic collages and nine video animations using templates of environment from the Wollemi National Park as worlds for new, isolated, object creatures. I also projected these objects onto trees and rocks outdoors to make 3D collage and documented them, showing virtual-meeting-physical and added a small amount of light and texta drawing into the mix.</p><p class="p2" style="color: #dca10d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><a href="https://bigci.org/artists-in-residence-2/">https://bigci.org/artists-in-residence-2/</a><br /><a href="https://bigci.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/open-day-060322-poster.jpg"></a></p><p class="p2" style="color: #dca10d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="color: #dca10d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; 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It was my first international project since Covid and a very refreshing collaboration, seeing again through the world’s eyes and a reminder that making large scale live art works is pure hard work! Also the challenge of thinking conceptually about the state of another country I visited six years ago, director Kim Ju-Hong suggested I manipulate images from nature that were universal to represent contemporary Korea.</p></div></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRihqPq-YLo" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRihqPq-YLo</a><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8ys5AoVh7qIF8Iua4l5fHtB1YL4GHzj_Cm4rs91jcxcCJATn1_wee3Yjm5HodagTRinmRpMfOmycTvAG6yMpBxV_VD7gWq2hjIMOzjb0gfD3zJBv7kKe5133zMtuehUDb7sGCdoGNXGhSed1PYTK1YdtysfeeqQf7mgyHauh-3AuUNiM-Ow" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8ys5AoVh7qIF8Iua4l5fHtB1YL4GHzj_Cm4rs91jcxcCJATn1_wee3Yjm5HodagTRinmRpMfOmycTvAG6yMpBxV_VD7gWq2hjIMOzjb0gfD3zJBv7kKe5133zMtuehUDb7sGCdoGNXGhSed1PYTK1YdtysfeeqQf7mgyHauh-3AuUNiM-Ow" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVfVE5EpCI9CMW81NJUwW3QZgRyEskH0Kz9QjCTZl0807VTBeR0x-jS3yTSb7sUsuidFv-A1-te_ZypxzZtv8sBlC0WT0HIh-r5-64938GmX3Vrbrv5H7HSvujDJzlK0Z2-z2nhFBTctSpP4jH2DjR5Z2t_IMSsVODMO3g6jal6-4C0n_m-w" style="clear: right; 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“a performance that contains Corea's DNA from ancient times to today”</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"> </span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Samuel Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098498121555459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-58710480213440387112022-01-10T14:11:00.006+11:002022-01-10T15:34:16.235+11:00FOLLOW THE BIAS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIfrKVtg_oRBftBm5bHqIlXNAzCVQA4ZAtjVORvyKhTJmhA1YMkDw9a360zTPoGY1NjrWD2fEk-ubXJ-rGSDfc8Fw2cDV8Mp2S93nH1qLdzrLj6Exs18xbl9SZGn0Phamr-lqIuOp2bACeKczDonvrSaIR9d_4jpTa4iAF-t4J3-5sgJB0Ug=s3840" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="3840" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIfrKVtg_oRBftBm5bHqIlXNAzCVQA4ZAtjVORvyKhTJmhA1YMkDw9a360zTPoGY1NjrWD2fEk-ubXJ-rGSDfc8Fw2cDV8Mp2S93nH1qLdzrLj6Exs18xbl9SZGn0Phamr-lqIuOp2bACeKczDonvrSaIR9d_4jpTa4iAF-t4J3-5sgJB0Ug=w640-h117" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A dance film with GOGI Dance Collective (Alicia Harvie, Ashleigh White and Viviane Frehner) based in the Gold Coast and<span style="font-family: inherit;"> commissioned by the Bleach Festival (PLACEMAKERS - Rosie Dennis). </span>A three channel dance video with s<span style="font-family: inherit;">imple structures of curvatures illustrated topographically of body movement inspired by the curvature and gestures of lawn bowls. Curvatures showing the inclination for change of direction of a non-spherical rolling ball - nothing remains perfectly straight but the curvature is used in the play strategy. </span>Technically<span style="font-family: inherit;"> lawn bowls utilise the off centred ball to loop back and position somewhere precisely with grace. These curves dovetail to the paradoxical grids of industrial sugar cane farming which cut up the natural forms of the Gold Coast hinterland. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bleach Festival 2021 <a href="https://bleachfestival.com.au/events/follow-the-bias/" target="_blank">https://bleachfestival.com.au/events/follow-the-bias/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">Video Link: <a href="https://vimeo.com/664085497">https://vimeo.com/664085497</a></div><p></p><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div>Samuel Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098498121555459294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-53016526012822242162021-10-20T13:57:00.002+11:002021-11-01T11:59:46.330+11:00A Beached Whale, a Sleeping Snake<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3XxyZVpRjtPxOTM3i7AcgiZT9tBGp0XULx5HBxoVqtKUKQE83oRwLAPC9dB5ZiNtozkbWirQYqstT63Frjv6itEzUnctTrAyWREubj_zGSNjhWQrszCq5zJn02DKrnnqhQSG1/s1920/ATEOTL+still6.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3XxyZVpRjtPxOTM3i7AcgiZT9tBGp0XULx5HBxoVqtKUKQE83oRwLAPC9dB5ZiNtozkbWirQYqstT63Frjv6itEzUnctTrAyWREubj_zGSNjhWQrszCq5zJn02DKrnnqhQSG1/w640-h360/ATEOTL+still6.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Annabelle - HD video still"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">T</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">here is what gets seen in art and what audiences don’t know about the process it took to get there. There are essential processes and they are different for each artist. People see the end result but don’t know what the journey to that point was, though they may sense it. What is always aimed for is the opening flower coming from points of madness to sanity, whilst still communicating the madness. The pathways aiming towards that can be vastly different, effortless and blissful or torturous and scarring, this work isn’t finished, the questions are still out there. We tried to make fabric out of the ephemera but it was like the trust of holding a snake, trying not to get bitten. This is the sixth development of At the End of the Land (Too Close to the Sun), a complex beastly work of spirit photography, holography, and performance of dreams in a state of seance. Sound, image, text, object... all varying states of illusion.</span></div><p></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, Freemantle WA (development #4) 25/9-8/10/21</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Live Dreams PORTAL: At The End of the Land - Talya Rubin </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Too Close to the Sun)</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">LIVEWORKS Performance Space 21/10/21</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Visual Projections: Samuel James</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sound: Hayley Forward</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://performancespace.com.au/program/live-dreams-portal-live-on-the-line/" target="_blank">Liveworks Festival 2021</a><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtb4C8b4HDC9iip_5NzpY3EUUX1fh-4vJpf5y-B_2WXBOPwo5wALU1Bi-P_57je5A78zDLTsDYEwXhIHqP8TRIshyphenhyphenL6Nd9-zA2Y4XvyvQsZExH6tGf_khVZimbd3enU5lXeAe4/s1920/AtEndofLand+miniaturedirt.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtb4C8b4HDC9iip_5NzpY3EUUX1fh-4vJpf5y-B_2WXBOPwo5wALU1Bi-P_57je5A78zDLTsDYEwXhIHqP8TRIshyphenhyphenL6Nd9-zA2Y4XvyvQsZExH6tGf_khVZimbd3enU5lXeAe4/s320/AtEndofLand+miniaturedirt.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Dirt bathroom - HD video still"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-72683319624023497152021-07-22T14:16:00.002+10:002021-07-22T14:16:26.296+10:00Natural Environments and Cognitive Dissonance<p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg14mc8v6vxvEyiz-AVHbCBIeBtzQ4-4RiDd53PY8kVcNsf8KKtJWOpVIrUOkgRcgOjQwqvpHMI1EagfDLUpUrqKmWwV37ZAV6p7HyLUodpxfU0Y1gnzKGXutIMTF9p3qVhwxGy/s2048/SonicSites+Pano1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1029" data-original-width="2048" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg14mc8v6vxvEyiz-AVHbCBIeBtzQ4-4RiDd53PY8kVcNsf8KKtJWOpVIrUOkgRcgOjQwqvpHMI1EagfDLUpUrqKmWwV37ZAV6p7HyLUodpxfU0Y1gnzKGXutIMTF9p3qVhwxGy/w400-h201/SonicSites+Pano1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sonic Sites, Bundanon Trust (May 2021)</td></tr></tbody></table>Pre-lockdown in NSW we squeezed in two quick projects; SONIC SITES at Bundanon Trust with Ensemble Offspring and MY BOVINE HEART with performer Regina Heilmann at University of Wollongong. Both projects interlinked through a state of cognitive dissonance; Bovine Heart focussing on meat eating whilst loving the soul of animals and Sonic Sites being an epic artistic drive to achieve a vision against the odds of time, weather and environment.</p><p>Sonic Sites was a Bundanon Trust commissioned work with Ensemble Offspring's composers collaborating with Nowra local music students to elicit deeper understandings and connections to nature. Here we installed 4 monitors with wooden frames amongst the trees at Rosemary's Rocks, a favourite photo site for works by photographer Rosemary Laing. </p><p>On My Bovine Heart I collaborated with Regina on her Phd work over five years and it finally came to fruition. A carefully considered, poetic solo work set to a backdrop of a butcher's cool room, on which I projected subconscious imagery of her empathetically embodying cows she has been acquainted with. Wrapped within the paradox of herself being being sent to slaughter, being presented and eaten as meat. The psychological hangman event of devouring the things that matter most to us.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nCd3smi_C4vH-1wmUmP9uZ2IggdFpoIWXMUoHtbMNogcR8iSb3tWoBgWwsSNXvHv5xyLjipHdvA2-gE0mRVn-vljbR15hbpXnSUnNFIK5AB8vgZxDODZ-_LNhzrypG6Sd4tt/s1920/Bovine21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nCd3smi_C4vH-1wmUmP9uZ2IggdFpoIWXMUoHtbMNogcR8iSb3tWoBgWwsSNXvHv5xyLjipHdvA2-gE0mRVn-vljbR15hbpXnSUnNFIK5AB8vgZxDODZ-_LNhzrypG6Sd4tt/s320/Bovine21.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Regina Heilmann My Bovine Heart video still (May 2021)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-39394668379222982072021-02-12T16:00:00.009+11:002021-05-24T10:15:32.136+10:00The Complication of LYREBIRDS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpOtnBcpeFp0JI1mlgQCapGD6GDaZnRZqyzgzJHrjLYxY_81kIbMP5yZeffqnZvUi9sElWQEClN9k_dmMV124mNa2VJdivO2ZbEGW-96Kn-dwi3ox4mnOG0aWRQk4-XzkVrMbo/s2048/lyrebirds3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1472" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpOtnBcpeFp0JI1mlgQCapGD6GDaZnRZqyzgzJHrjLYxY_81kIbMP5yZeffqnZvUi9sElWQEClN9k_dmMV124mNa2VJdivO2ZbEGW-96Kn-dwi3ox4mnOG0aWRQk4-XzkVrMbo/s320/lyrebirds3.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">SYDNEY FESTIVAL 2021 - Wesley Enoch's final Sydney Festival. I had the privilege of working with dancers Jasmin Sheppard and Kaine Sultan Babij on their personal stories of assimilation and reflections of home in Takalaka and Arrende country. Both have extensive history with Bangarra and are now establishing their own choreographic languages with other media; evocative voice overs, highly detailed props and video projection. We transformed Campbelltown Art Centre's open stage into a greyed-out, projection scrimmed environment for the sake of bringing the focus right in to a sensitive listening and watching of personal stories told abstractly through sound, movement and image. It was a three projector setup; one for the lyrebird costume, one for the floor and one cyclorama. With incredible sound design by Naretha Williams and light by Karen Norris this was an excellent team to bring about the required alchemy to evoke the deep sense of home-longing and re-finding oneself through the mirages of every day illusions.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sydney Festival, Campbelltown Arts Centre, 19-23rd Jan 2021</span></p><p><a href="https://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/complication-of-lyrebirds" target="_blank">https://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/complication-of-lyrebirds</a><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhcWDFRYkhbpW5FSbWjKcZct4o5eYL_Ed1bghrTIZoy92rFOtwrouIp5MNoOfAr4Fjmq7mAPF4ncuBlaR1VQkg4-HJwLxHHZ89sgUWhA4MPvCREz5j1wMpZbTCp89s9aF2dV2W/s1920/COL+wideshot10.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhcWDFRYkhbpW5FSbWjKcZct4o5eYL_Ed1bghrTIZoy92rFOtwrouIp5MNoOfAr4Fjmq7mAPF4ncuBlaR1VQkg4-HJwLxHHZ89sgUWhA4MPvCREz5j1wMpZbTCp89s9aF2dV2W/w640-h360/COL+wideshot10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-18960890803300229562021-01-01T16:30:00.009+11:002021-05-24T10:14:08.264+10:00Simulated Rock Picnic<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBLtU_e1eAzpWGsIQMBZXadQYBRpI4_vpUMzMeHtqE9VBy2_2zN8QWXMbMpSQgsHvAZRMsAf3UILDBFNndEl-9maxpqpoLQJIsjpTJsdjcB3uItmpaja0Lr38JWh_9efKR2Rir/s1920/Grottos5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBLtU_e1eAzpWGsIQMBZXadQYBRpI4_vpUMzMeHtqE9VBy2_2zN8QWXMbMpSQgsHvAZRMsAf3UILDBFNndEl-9maxpqpoLQJIsjpTJsdjcB3uItmpaja0Lr38JWh_9efKR2Rir/w400-h225/Grottos5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">Conceived by performance maker Alan Schacher with WeiZen Ho, Katia Molino, Philip Mills and others, SKELTER SHELTER was a video experiment made with the assistance of the Blue Mountains City of Arts Trust exploring the picnic rock shelters in Katoomba which were built and designed by Tom Adam in the 1930's. 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Strategising new funding platforms for live events, engaging with ways live acts are digitally perceived - rethinking virtual presences and how they can be equivalent to live energy, how they can become pushed out of necessity into online art platforms. Digital art space has jumped from conceptual practice to something necessary. The attention span is shorter, the spectacle expectation is higher, and the fluency of virtual, video/audiographic space has instantly become the norm. Though the sense is people are longing to go back to visceral experiences.</p><p>DE QUINCEY CO: PARA PARRA a digital video performance work based at the Parramatta Female Factory unearthing its traumatic histories. Artists: Tess De Quincey, Linda Luke, Victoria Hunt, Martin Fox, Sian James-Holland, Samuel James, Ben Carey, Sonja Holowell, Melanie Liertz.</p><p>KANTANKA CREATIVE: NEW REALITIES - PANDEMIC AND PERFORMANCE seven new 360VR works made with 7 artists; Alan Schacher, WeiZen Ho, Latai Funaki Taumoepeau and Brian Fuata, Katia Molino, Alissar Chidiac, Rajan Velu, Rakini Devi. Directed by Carlos Gomes, VR Filmmaker Samuel James, sound by Gail Priest. 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PANIC EMBRACE, made for BLIK BLIK 2020 festival in the Czech Republic metamorphosed into a 360VR work during the lockdown (see link below) after a successful installation in DEPO2015 Pilsen. It was made by projecting onto a collection of eight suspended frames of disassembled pieces of clothing in a 10 metre wide array to increase dimensional perception of each item being affected by the superimposition of chaotic, monochromatic drawings.<br />
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The drawings were made with the sense of waking and sleeping brain cycles and repatriation, like a person passing through life threatening experiences, possibly dying or being transformed and coming out the other side. They are made in the liminal state of brief hesitation, realising one's life is at stake. From the initial RFS command during the bushfires in NSW "stay and fight or leave now", seeing people driving through walls of flames bleeding into a global Coronavirus pandemic, suddenly everyone is faced with mortality, not just refugees and those fleeing terror. <br />
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Supported by Create NSW, DEPO2015 and Blik Blik Festival 2020<br /><a href="https://www.realtime.org.au/thinking-at-the-speed-of-light-the-art-of-sam-james/" target="_blank">Realtime Arts Review 2020</a><div><br />
"Death is a ceremony in which one takes off one pair of clothes and adopts a new one. <br />
The ego sees death as suffering and the soul sees death as the awakening... of a new perception. " - Ram Dass<br />
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A collaboration with Big hArt, Australia's large scale, nomadic community arts company, to insert skate culture into the Barangaroo Arts Precinct in Sydney. A hotspot for general audiences, especially around Vivid Sydney, this event has been balanced by indigenous recognition through projects such as Wellama, (meaning 'to come back') a large outdoor audio visual work set in this location described as 'ground zero' for European invasion. For the skate community it is a cross wiring of the sophisticated underground culture with the most corporate end of town and an opportunity to fertilise other similar sponsored events around the world such as the Tokyo Olympics 2020.<br />
This is a mock-up set with a 3 projector immersive coverage on the floor, ramps and walls and utilises infra red motion tracking (Jordan East), motion graphics (Benjamin Ducroz) and environmental thematics by myself. All audio is triggered from the space though skateboards, ramps and rails. Sound also triggers lighting and video effects. Every event is presented differently and is prepared with minimal tech time in darkness and to the best of our ability, vj'd on the fly.<br />
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At the Cutaway, Barangaroo May-July 2019<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-9862748704823548772018-10-05T18:37:00.001+10:002019-09-15T13:28:36.735+10:00LEGS ON THE WALL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My first project with Legs on the Wall is a big one: <i>Man with the Iron Neck,</i> a project about indigenous suicide, developed over 2 years in four stages. The projections are split over an 18m x 5m curved projection cyclorama in 4K, using shadow acting, aerial choreography and puppetry, drone footage, photographic collage and water animation. The collaboration with set designer Joey Ruigrok van der Verven incorporates a 7 metre gum tree and a flying hills hoist which is used to propel aerial performers from and adding dynamic three dimensionality to the space. It is a complete theatre work written by Ursula Yovich based on a concept by co-director, Josh Bond who has been working on the idea for over four years. It is fantastic to be working on something well supported and developed - I had eight weeks to make the projections, with extra time on the tour for technical installation and adjustments. It is a great example of theatre that brings all the elements together, including hyper visual choreography by Gavin Robins and exquisite lighting by Matt Marshall.<br />
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Brisbane Festival, Powerhouse Theatre, 22-28 October 2018<br />
Sydney and Adelaide Festival 2019 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgTZDQVn7Fg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgTZDQVn7Fg</a><br />
Review: <a href="https://theconversation.com/man-with-the-iron-neck-is-gripping-confronting-physical-theatre-103994" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/man-with-the-iron-neck-is-gripping-confronting-physical-theatre-103994</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">A second music video for Ensemble Offspring's </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Offspring Bites</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">with Bree Van Reyk. This piece attempts to depict the pre-cognitive state of a child in utero, seeing “light for the first time”. The stages of being before self-reflexivity, perceiving colours and movement as a unified (non-Cartesian) experience, perhaps ultimately phenomenological without distinction of one's own body from the stimuli, pure, sensory immersion. I worked on developing stages of cognition after the very first optical receptions, proposing that once we see, we then start to perceive, and sense becomes ‘feeling’. Made only with a Leica M digital camera, physical lens distortions and real time movement. I have known Bree from Synergy Percussion (</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Earth Cry</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">and</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">40 under 40</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">) as a down to earth collaborator and composer. This is probably the most subtle and sensitive piece I have made, thanks to Bree.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-24899797428585956462018-06-08T14:44:00.003+10:002018-09-16T17:38:17.292+10:00The Obscene Madame D<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">This labyrinthine work is based on the book The Obscene Madame D by Brazilian author Hilda Hilst and adapted by Carlos Gomes (Theatre Kantanka) performed by Katia Molino. Madame D stands in the centre of an audience and fragments outwards in projections on broken walls. We are one moment inside her body, then with her hiding under the stairs, then in a caffeine induced reverie of her dead husband, scenes being led by his voice inside her head. The memory simulacra is implanted into our heads via headphones (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: 12px;">binaural audio recordings by Gail Priest). A meta-performance shifting between her introverted presence underneath tables and behind curtains and chaotic aggression behind nightmare masks, the performance is delivered in the round, making us question how much we exist in-and-to the world, when we are consumed by loneliness and insanity. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Animated Projections and video shadow play in collaboration with Carlos Gomes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;"><i>Parramatta Riverside Lennox Theatre</i> 16-22nd April</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;"><i>107 Projects, Redfern</i> 21-27th May</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Review - Sydney Morning Herald</span><br />
<a href="https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/obscene-madame-d-review-sudden-shafts-of-beauty-penetrate-dense-alphabet-soup-20180524-h10h1u.html" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/obscene-madame-d-review-sudden-shafts-of-beauty-penetrate-dense-alphabet-soup-20180524-h10h1u.html</a><br />
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<a href="https://suzygoessee.com/2018/05/24/review-obscene-madame-d-theatre-kantanka/" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">https://suzygoessee.com/2018/05/24/review-obscene-madame-d-theatre-kantanka/</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-11376518670231998392018-05-19T17:56:00.001+10:002018-05-19T17:59:11.801+10:00The Listening Project<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEaut4IURPDWK-fFbetCZpIZQrLQMD00wXnjHooA9IBE1Mnyfhr-bsAfuyJUca-JE0P5jdo8VTqcg8FkO7S1h_ZHQ9c7WmcVmoam4NR-1u9SfOOaPh9H7l6e1cXRi1z-BxeIS8/s1600/Cello+Tree3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEaut4IURPDWK-fFbetCZpIZQrLQMD00wXnjHooA9IBE1Mnyfhr-bsAfuyJUca-JE0P5jdo8VTqcg8FkO7S1h_ZHQ9c7WmcVmoam4NR-1u9SfOOaPh9H7l6e1cXRi1z-BxeIS8/s320/Cello+Tree3.jpg" width="320" /></a>If we think of ourselves as trees, we would generally behave better towards each other. Without the faculty of sight the botanical world grows and lives alongside us with an unheard voice. Annette Tesoriero directs the multi-dimensional performance of ten participants over the age of 60 in a work centred on listening and allowing space for acoustic relations with ourselves and each other. The character of a variety of trees in the Shoalhaven River area metaphorically held this knowing silence. Some participants had a favourite tree, some had a favourite forest to walk in and others used trees to remember, or to gift as new beginnings. The associative environment and the uniqueness of the human mind amongst its labyrinth was a joy to project, with pre-made films 7 metres high on a square format cyclorama, to observe the rhythmic visual forms interrelating with performers' brief vignettes of voice and simple movement.<br />
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At SHOALHAVEN ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE May 12th 2018<br />
Produced by Bundanon TrustUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-30170901841897652892018-05-04T17:12:00.000+10:002018-05-04T17:12:15.508+10:00The Sound of Waiting<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Heavy material, performed with unrelenting emotion, the Sound of Waiting was a poignant, magic-realist work on refugee experience, evoking the terror of homeland and the battle against the odds on a fatal approach to Australia. Written by Mary-Anne Butler and directed by Suzanne Periera this work explored the strength of the will to survive and how far the human spirit will extend when there is no alternative option. It was a privilege to be part of a work of such political importance which reached large audiences with great reviews. It was my first endeavour with Darlinghurst Theatre in their process of intense psychological questioning of the line between the actor and reality particularly for lead actor and child refugee, Reza Momenzada.<br />
The projection design was a single front projection onto a semi-circular, retracting tule curtain with floating panels of grey gauze behind.<br />
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Darlinghurst Theatre, Eternity Playhouse<br />
31st March - 22nd April 2018<br />
<a href="http://www.darlinghursttheatre.com/whats-on/the-sound-of-waiting" target="_blank">http://www.darlinghursttheatre.com/whats-on/the-sound-of-waiting</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29193416.post-16084460050099345552017-11-08T16:17:00.001+11:002017-11-08T16:21:16.923+11:00Detone/Retune - Ensemble Offspring video<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After a few weeks of compositing process, reassembling abstract photographic elements from unidentified places to Juan Felipe Waller's persuasive composition Detone/Retune in different combinations, different quantities, with varying velocity and density the string of sonic episodes have become a space in themselves without need for interrelation or context. A certain amount, moving at what speed, at what point in time and in what proportional relationship to its neighbouring elements, recurs, familiar, a language. Complimentarily, in image, each element is not actual but an image simulating an element in combination with sounds, simulated movements built in a composition like a waiting residual sea, waves rising debris to the surface, but halting before surface emergence. Juan Felipe Waller's composition set was a video-generative </span>task <span style="font-family: inherit;">for me not unlike a 2D board game performed by Sydney's Ensemble Offspring. It was evidence of sound art defying commodifiable emergent value leaving the percussive musicians an opportunity for a rearrangement of the pure object of sounds. Non-hierarchical, non-narrative music: an exercise in resistance..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Launch soon: <a href="https://vimeo.com/channels/samueljames/239549771" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/channels/samueljames/239549771</a></span><br />
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After a tour with Back to Back Theatre to Vienna/Amsterdam and a detour to Budapest - the return to Australia and its bigotry - oh the disappointment, yet reason to protest. At Articulate Space Leichhardt as part of De Quincey Company's installation performance event <i>PLATFORM 2017 </i> and SNO Gallery I showed some light tracing works which<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> re-traced memories of the Terror Museum in Budapest and an opening night in Vienna followed by the state of mind returning to Australia: forward work, intersected by destabilising compromise resulting in a backwards trajectory.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></span><br />
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Articulate Space - <i>Practicing Liberty to then Be Jailed/</i><i>Classless Denial of Rights</i> and<i> Giving Refuge/Giving Asylum </i>HD video loop 17 mins<br />
<a href="https://vimeo.com/channels/samueljames/226617927" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/channels/samueljames/226617927</a><br />
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S.N.O. Gallery Marrickville - <i>Social Confluence Vienna/Progression Diversion Regression </i>HD video loop 9.26 min. 15th-26th July 2017<br />
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