Exhibited.
Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney 1997.
Art Gallery of New South Wales 2000/1.
Materials.
Upholstery, Cast rubber, Aluminium, Audio electronics.
Dimensions.
Footprint variable x7 rooms.
Individual units 05.m ~ 2.5m
Notes.
A singer who sings like a bird is an unproductive worker.
When she sells her song, she is a wage earner or a merchant.
But the same singer, employed by someone else to give
concerts and bring in money, is a productive...
Exhibited.
The Palmhouse, Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney 1999.
Materials.
Ceramic, Sourdough, Zinc, Timber, Audio electronics.
Dimensions.
Footprint 19m x 7m x 3m.
Notes. A botanical garden puts down its roots towards Eden, a small part of paradise planted on ground with a fair claim to being Eden itself. The garden is in effect a confluence of nature and our interpretation and construction of nature. The garden also boasts a subtle array of means to coax, to nurture...
Exhibited.
Metronom Gallery Barcelona 2003.
Auditori CAM, Alicante, 2003.
Stanford University Gallery 2003.
Materials.
X2 DVD projections, x100 Insect cages, x25 Laboratory stands, x200 Crickets.
Dimensions.
Footprint variable, individual units 2m x 2m x 2m.
Notes.
Host is an installation developed recently at the ‘SymbioticA’ Bio-Art and Technology Laboratory (University of Western Australia) in which an audience of live Crickets attend a lecture concerning the sex...
La Zona Del Silencio, co-produced with Tony McGregor of ABC Radio, Sydney.
Exhibited.
1. Mapimi Desert and Insurgentes Metro, Mexico City, October 12th 1992.
2. The Biennale of Sydney, 1992/3.
3. ABC Radio (x2 broadcasts, “La Zona” and “La Campana”) February 1993.
Materials.
1. Ships Bell and Radio Transmitter.
2. Mixed media Sound Installation.
3. Radio Broadcast + Audiotape publication.
Dimensions.
1. Theoretically infinite.
2. Overall installation 8m x 9m.
3. x2...
Exhibited.
Artspace, Sydney 1993, Gallery X, Tokyo 1993, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland 1994.
Materials.
Turbines, mahogany and steel, support system, yacht wire and aluminium, compressor and air control equipment, x4 stools, music stand with “Ionisation” by Edgar Varese, x3 mechanical toys in oil baths on steel supports.
Dimensions.
Installation footprint - 4m x 8m x3m.
Notes.
I live my life in growing orbits, which move out over the things of the world. Perhaps I...
A multi-source sound installation in two parts + accompanying radio broadcast.
Exhibited.
San Francisco Art Institute as part of SoundCulture 96.
National Gallery of Victoria in Contempora 5 (Now in NGV Collection).
Materials.
Siren section (x4 suspended units) Aluminium, perforated zinc, rigging wire, audio electronics.
Dimensions.
Siren units ~ 4m diameter x 0.5m horn diameter.
Installation.
Footprint ~ 19m x 13m x 7m.
Soundtext.
x4 identical units @ 74 minutes...
Exhibited.
“Drift” was commissioned by Hull Time Based Arts of Hull, UK for TooT (Totally out of Tune) festival 1999.
Materials.
Sidewinder Trawler, Multichannel audio and wood and Aluminium sculptural element.
Dimensions.
Installation footprint 15m x 10m x 4m.
Notes.
The work “Drift” is a dynamic 3 D spatialised soundwork installed in the fish hold of the “Artic Corsair” the last remaining Humberside sidewinder trawler now moored, as a museum ship, in Hull (Yorkshire,...
Exhibited.
A Public Sculpture Project, Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, December 1999.
Materials.
Steel, Timber, Solar and Audio electronics.
Dimensions.
7m x 20m x 7m.
Notes
The environs, of Woolloomooloo Bay, are formed by the pro-active natural history interests, vested in the Domain and Botanic Gardens on one flank and by the military/industrial interests of the Federal state on the other. In essence the waters of the bay span a duality of nature and industry.
Again -...
Year : 1998
Exhibited.
Innenseit Projekt Kassel 1998.
Materials.
Bronze Bell, x64 Voltaic cells and electronic circuits. Zinc wall texts.
Dimension.
Installation footprint 10m x 6m.
Notes.
The work was installed in a post-war Atomic Shelter in the basement of a former Police Academy. The installation contained a suspended bronze bell, which was excited by a series of Piezo resonators - causing it to ‘sing’ at a very high frequency. The electrical power was provided...
Exhibited.
“The Bicentennial Perspecta” - AGNSW.
Materials.
Steel, Timber, Audio electronics.
Dimensions.
3.5m x 10m diameter.
Notes.
Multi source sound sculpture constructed in Timber and Steel.
Die Melodie was a very large sound-structure (mixing a strong kinesthetic and sculptural statement with a high level of culturally located audio-texts).
In its generation the work issued more from a seedbed of ideas and interests in history (not Art...