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ABSENCE PRESENCE installation cockatoo island

When encountering Lara O’Reilly’s multi-media installation I was touched by the work’s ability to deeply engage those visiting the location – a deteriorating industrial complex located on an isolated island in Sydney Cove. The indigenous Australian Aboriginal name for this place is Wa-rea-mah, and these people were dis-located during the colonial period, when their home was transformed into a convict prison for those transported across the seas from Britain. Later this place was a colonial & industrial shipping dock. The work resonates with ghosts of the displaced. As visitors/participants in O’Reilly’s work we must replicate the journey [across the river styx] from the mainland and step over a psychological threshold to apprehend the installation. Dissonant digital film/video imagery of a woman walking through spaces of ‘nature’ & water are projected on multiple screens within the massive space, juxtaposed with female forms (reminiscent of mermaids) suspended in silken cocoons from the rafters. The haunting tones of a live cello sound piece, conjure the ghosts of the past, the dispossessed, those incarcerated, and mingling with the feathers from a million birds & industrial detritus.
tatjana

absence presence installation cockatoo island

absence presence
A site-specific performance & moving image installation infused with the resonance and mystery of what we feel but cannot see. It is a meditation on space and memory and the ways in which the two
constantly interact at specific sites. Composing filmic worlds moving between the abandoned architecture
of Cockatoo Island and the remote
australian bush and how this collision of built and natural worlds can mediate between the present and the past – between the visible and the invisible. Rooms with suspended female bodies, veiled and lit in a sensuous light, conjuring emotions of sadness, loss, loneliness and reverie and yet a gentle sense of security and of our own stilled existence within the incredible space where we find ourselves.. on an uninhabited abandoned island that is richly embedded with the history
of our colonial and distant past.

"The installation was intended to be a highly experiential encounter with the space and with oneself. For the viewer to experience their own sense of the space and find themselves in a world between worlds…blurred between interior and exterior realms of built and natural spaces and the interior and exterior states of mind that the
performance and the soundscape allude to…. Above all it was to be
enjoyed and to be taken on a journey to a faraway place…"
Lara O'Reilly artist

absencepresence

LUNATIC

TRACES

Check on a MOBILE JOURNEY by my favourite new media artist
Megan Heyward:: TRACES
http://www.dlux.org.au/mobilejourneys/meganhayward.html
films....[yum] LUNA: tatiana & BRIDGE: gary
"traces is a locative media work delivered on mobile phone, exploring the
relationships of people, memory and place. In it, the environments we move
through – the streets, buildings; the parks and bridges and alleyways of
Sydney’s CBD – reveal themselves as sites rich with meaning, traced over
with both personal and shared narrative."

VUSPACE

lookingout

mobile

...the research project is to capture a still & moving digital image sequence as a personal response...bluetooth these from your 3G mobile device to your computer & post as comments....

tatjana

strangecities

Blogging as a Social Activity, or Would You Let 900 Million People Read Your Diary ? by Nardi, Schiano & Gumbrecht

"Weblogs, or "bloggs", are frequently updated webpages with a series of archived posts, typically reversed order. Blogs are primarily textual, but they may contain photos or other media content..." from Bonnie A. Nardi, Diane J. Schiano, Michelle Gumbrecht, Stanford (2007)

What is blogging?

The QANTM/SAE Diploma of Multimedia class needs to post a comment on this blogg site in response to this question & post their favourite blogg URL for the other members of the class to visit! Tatjana....also i want you to post a comment about the interaction design program...as we are nearing the close of the trimester i only have you for two more classes.........www.sae.edu www.qantmcollege.edu.au