Rebecca Mayo
Precarity was filmed beside the Merri Creek in Campbellfield. The three dancers each wear a dress, connected to the next via the sleeves. An enclosed and interlinked space is formed within their arms. The dresses are printed with dye extracted from Australian mistletoe plants and their host (in this case Eucalypt and Casuarina). The garments, infused with colour from the environment act to conflate issues of ecology, interdependence and culture.
Kathleen McCann
Centrifuge (2013) uses the visual language of orientation and orbits, charting and navigation, trajectories and targets to articulate a shifting perception of place. Looping text encircles a spinning compass, rotating points of stellar navigation and a domestic drain sucking water into a mundane vortex. This work touches on the unstable experience of place in a mutable world and our efforts to locate ourselves, to find our bearings.
Clare Rae
The Wait (2009) is a stop motion animated video made from photographic stills. The work playfully depicts the artist swinging around a pole at a suburban train station, suspended in mid air long past the point where gravity should take hold. This video work engages with my interests in the space between the still and moving image, whilst also investigating the relationship between the body and its physical surrounds.
Precarity was filmed beside the Merri Creek in Campbellfield. The three dancers each wear a dress, connected to the next via the sleeves. An enclosed and interlinked space is formed within their arms. The dresses are printed with dye extracted from Australian mistletoe plants and their host (in this case Eucalypt and Casuarina). The garments, infused with colour from the environment act to conflate issues of ecology, interdependence and culture.
Kathleen McCann
Centrifuge (2013) uses the visual language of orientation and orbits, charting and navigation, trajectories and targets to articulate a shifting perception of place. Looping text encircles a spinning compass, rotating points of stellar navigation and a domestic drain sucking water into a mundane vortex. This work touches on the unstable experience of place in a mutable world and our efforts to locate ourselves, to find our bearings.
Clare Rae
The Wait (2009) is a stop motion animated video made from photographic stills. The work playfully depicts the artist swinging around a pole at a suburban train station, suspended in mid air long past the point where gravity should take hold. This video work engages with my interests in the space between the still and moving image, whilst also investigating the relationship between the body and its physical surrounds.