Power Plant
Sydney Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, 10 Days on the Island, Tasmania
The artists Mark Anderson, Anne Bean, Jony Easterby, Kirsten Reynolds and Ulf Mark Pedersen each made several installations which formed a nocturnal world of sound and light – a sensory trail through public gardens which attractied rapturous press and thousands of people nightly.
“Strangely arresting, time is temporarily put on hold, as you enter another dimension…” Curtain Call (Sydney), January 2011
I worked on two different sound pieces for women’s voices, one Chinese and one Australian, as part of my work Bloom in Hong Kong and Australia. Fragments of songs sung by women in all different national tongues in both countries were composed into a piece with the musician Stephen Shiell. The video shows my work Campanula (Bell Flowers) in Tasmania where it was hung on a Weeping Ash (Pendula) and thus became Campanula on Pendula. I suspended about 60 glass ‘bells’ in different formations in different contexts, programmed with tiny motors to vibrate at different pitches and in various formations so that as people walked through they were immersed in the varying densities and layering of sound. The tiny lights inside the bells faded and brightened according to the bell intensity, so one could have momentary darkness followed by radiant glowing of the glass.
The electro-luminescent wire names are all of night flying moths that can usually, oxymoronically, only be seen in darkness. They all have a name that has a colour, or lack of colour (ghost) and the wire reflects the colour.
Produced by Simon Chatterton