Clearing

This material was developed as part of my Creators Fund grant in 2023. The focus of this grant was on solo practice, however I was joined intermittently by dancers Caroline Meaden and Arabella Frahn-Strakie. I was interested to transfer choreography I created on myself onto other dancers.

All sound heard in these videos was composed by Matthias Schack- Arnott for this project. Matthias played the music live in the studio. https://matthiasschackarnott.com/

Images - ceramic sound sculptures inspired by antique hearing aids, or hearing trumpets.

Some references feeding my research outside the studio

The Hearing Trumpet (Leonora Carrington 1974)

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory (Sarah Polley 2022)

Entangled Life: How Fungi make our worlds, change our minds and share our futures (Merlin Sheldrake 2020)

The Brain that Changes Itself (Norman Doide, M.D. 2007 ) 

Silence in the Age of Noise (Erling Kagge 2016)

The River of Consciousness (Oliver Sacks 2017)

Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World (Nina Kraus)

Vivienne Binns  On and Through the Surface (a retrospective of the artist’s work published by Monash University Museum of Art)

The Art of Noises (Futurist Manifesto written by Luigi Russolo 1913)

First stage creative development supported by Creative Victoria, Chunky Move (Minimax residency) and Orbost Centre for Dance Research.