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| A Transcendental Fissure in the Immanent Fabric of Things |
View A Transcendental Fissure in the Immanent Fabric of Things (Melbourne, November 2011) in a larger map
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www.a-transcendental-fissure-in-the-immanent-fabric-of-things.com It's Playtime in the city for the artists, who have taken the title and created diverse conceptual, participatory and instructional art works that you can do yourself. Featuring: Ashley Woodward, Briony Barr, Bruce Mowson, Ceri Hann, Eamon Sprod, Elliot Howard, Michael Graeve and Mark Booth (US), Plastique Fantastique (UK). |
| Blind Walking Project |
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A project using the technique of listening and walking with one's eye's closed. HENKEL WALK 2010 This walk was assisted by Stuart Ringholt and Lynn Thomson, who delivered me to an unknown location, and helped by documenting the work and protecting me as I tried to find my way to the city without the aid of sight. Duration: 5 hours Distance walked (6.4kms) |
photo: Lynn Thomson
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| THE SWING |
Participatory post audio/visual installation
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The Swing, Bruce Mowson, 2007-8. Gossard Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne, June 2008. Blindfold, marine rigging and hardware, 25lt water container, vintage fabric, rubber and structural timber. In its current iteration, The Swing is designed to accomodate audience members weighing 50-80kg. The water container acts as a counterweight to the rider and the seat moves gently in all directions: side-to-side, up and down, back and forth. The motion of the work is affected by a double-feedback loop system, wherein the motion of one body affects the other, which in turn transmits force back. This produces a sensation akin to being on the sea. The work affects the body's inner ear, and specifically the labyrinth, which is comprised of fluid filled tubes which register motion in space. This part of our anatomy allows us to stand upright, and to see with stable vision. The work was produced via research into sensation and art, a topic which arose as I sought to find connections between music and visual art. Though there is no recorded sound in the work, the very subtle motion of the work opens up a suble listening space where the ambient soundscape is animated by our silent drifting and turning within it. |
| THE SHOWER |
Architechure/sound installation
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The Shower, Bruce Mowson and Pia Ednie Brown, 2003-5. Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, April 2004. Latex, steel, rubber, perspex, mdf, pressure sensor, lights, CD player, custom audio gate, speakers and amp. Within the latex skin lurks a minimalistic noisescape, inspired by La Monte Young and Alvin Lucier's explorations of sono-acoustic space. The Shower was commissioned by Experimenta Media Arts for the 'House of Tomorrow' project, but withdrawn at the last minute due differences between the artists and curators. |
| BARNEY |
Immersive Installation and Software project.
Bruce Mowson, 2006.
Generative audio-visual installation, dimensions variable.
Sound Polaroids Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, October 2006.
Influenced by Op Art and musical Minimalism, Barney is a generative audio-visual work, run from a computer using max/msp/jitter software, and including an immersive soundtrack.
| Melting Moments |
Immersive Installation and Software project.
Generative audio-visual installation, dimensions variable.
Kerb Artist Run Inititive, Totally Huge New Music Festival, Perth, Australia, 2007.
“I would describe the work as hypnotic, mesmerising and captivating – and this is the works meaning, to be captivating and mesmerising. What I’m interested in is under what circumstances, or in what personal spaces are such captivated states possible.”
Download (Max/MSP/Jitter standalone application 15.4mb)
| Static Tones |
Audio CD
"An intricate, yet unchanging mass of sound comprised of tiny repeating fragments. Although unchanging, the static tones create an illusion of movement and change, with perceptual distortions generated by the listener." Ed Osborn, Stretcher Archives, 2001.
Download: MP3 800kb
| Infracinema |
Live audio-video performance.
37 minutes.
North Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne International Arts Festival, 2005.
Download exerpt: Quicktime 14mb
| Absorption |
Installation
Zippered, 2005, Installation View.
Le Corbusier Chaise, computer generated sound and video, screen, headphones.
RMIT School of Art Gallery, April, 2006.
A soundtrack of groans and soft moans, somewhere between pleasure, admiration and discomfort, accompanies the perceptual-plays of the color-field video.
Read about Zippered in the chapter 'Absorption': Download full exegesis (900kb)
| Flesh Antenna |
Sound/Installation
Flesh Antenna, 2002.
Customised radios, steel wire, FM transmitter and antenna.
Presented by Experimenta Media Arts in "Prototype" at the Black Box, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne.
Initially commissioned by the 2002 Next Wave Festival.
A field of skull-ish radios... glaring, they hiss at you as you disrupt their transmission field.