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The consolations of landscape dissolve as fractures and junctions open between the memory and affect of virtual and physical worlds.
Gibson / Martelli (UK), Carol Brown (Aus/NZ) and Russell Scoones (Aus/NZ)
ABOUT:
Movement and landscape in flux, five figures wander across the landscape of Central Otago. Between the rocks and crevices, they move. In this moving image installation, we explore our persistent longing for belonging in an age of virtual travel. Filmed in the raw physical landscapes of Central Otago and the Motion Capture Studio of CoLab AUT in Auckland, we map between radically different scapes. The consolations of landscape dissolve as fractures and junctures open between the memory and affect of these different atmospheres, altering our transit. In this new cartography, that is here and everywhere; our bodies take on the rhythms of an altered place. Tracked in all dimensions, we are trackers, navigating travel to unknown and ungraspable places.
Presented: Premiered Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand 14 July 201 Performance Arcade, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand 28 February 2018 Angus-Hughes Gallery, London UK, 20 April 2018 Light Moves Festival, Limerick, Ireland 11 November 2018 Ars Electronica, In Kepler’s Gardens, New Zealand Exhibition 20 September 2020
Performers: Cassidy Scoones (NZ), Jenny Roche (IRL), Grant McLay (AUS), Ruth Gibson (UK), Carol Brown (NZ) Drone Operator: Nic Fay Made with support from Auckland University of Technology, University of Auckland, Creative Arts Industries Faculty, Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University.