Heart on the wind
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| Oigåll Projects, Gertrude St Projection Festival |
~ Panic Embrace is the work originally made for Blik Blik, modified for Oigåll Projects - now in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, 122 Gertrude at Fitzroy Melbourne, Wurungeri country.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.
And this week Heartland, 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
by eagle spirit, Kalkani.
Darwin Festival 4-21 August 2022
Vimeo link to Panic Embrace GSPF
Gertrude Street Projection Festival 27–31 July 2022
https://www.gspf.com.au/samuel-james
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| Heartland Adelaide Festival 2023, Adelaide Town Hall |
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| Heartland 4K video still |