Natural Environments and Cognitive Dissonance
Sonic Sites, Bundanon Trust (May 2021) 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. 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. 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 b
