Epicormic

Leon Cmielewski, Josephine Starrs

    Research output: Creative WorksAudio or Visual Works

    Abstract

    For 60 years the Victorian National Park Association (VNPA) has been at the forefront of protecting Victoria's natural environment. It undertakes scientific studies in close co-operation with the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research in order to gain a better understanding of native wild life. Employing motion-triggered surveillance cameras they are currently monitoring animals in national parks in Victoria to study how wildlife responds, long term, to fire or the absence of fire. In co-operation with the Centre for Creative Arts, La Trobe University, photos from the study have been made available to artists as the starting point for a project that invites our own response and interpretation as we witness the unreserved behaviour of native animals in their own habitat. These interpretations will be projected into the busy day/night life cycle of Melbourne and its public spaces – our own city habitat. Despite what we think we know about the aftermath of fire, there's surprisingly little understanding of its effects on native wildlife. Looking at the photos there is something incredibly intimate and unguarded about them. It's as if wildlife social-realism meets the monochromatic aesthetic of night vision surveillance and we are becoming voyeurs of another intelligence at work -- which we would not have encountered otherwise.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationFederation Square, Melbourne, Vic.
    PublisherOnline
    Size1 electronic media art work.
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    EventNature in the Dark (advertised date: 08/11/2012 : Federation Square, Melbourne, Vic.) -
    Duration: 23 Nov 2012 → …

    Keywords

    • multimedia system
    • video art

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