AURA NOX ANIMA :: 2016
HD Digital Video and soundscape, 7m45s.
Performers: Kathryn Puie, Angela French, Jessica Holman, Kirsten Packham, Lauren Lloyd Williams.
After death, earth takes back all parts of our physical selves, via entropic processes of decay and weathering. This aspect of existence is absent from the thoughts and sights of daily life. AURA NOX ANIMA invites us to observe earth’s cyclical nature, and find beauty in decay as we move to something completely foreign and new. In the articulation of extended stillness, deep silence and slowing down, AURA NOX ANIMA re-connects us with our own bodies and reawakens awareness of our own visceral vulnerabilities and susceptivity to the natural order.
DUNE :: 2015
HD Digital Video, 8m8s and soundscape.
Performers: Angela French, Jessica Holman, Kirsten Packham, Lauren Lloyd Williams.
DISPLACING COLONISATION :: 2018
Digital Video, 8m41s
Video vignettes taken while in transit are stitched together to evoke journeys of overland and atmospheric travel. The migrations mandated for a better and safer life elsewhere and of an uprooted disconnection from one’s homeland. My nomadic sense of the world and search for a place in which I feel ’settled' is an endless preoccupation. A life consuming quest, compelled by a sense of geographic and psycho-cultural displacement, I inherited as a second generation Australian to Palestinian parents. Never fitting in nor knowing where to call home. Snippets from the shared conversations that took place before, during and after the shoots with the subjects from a larger body of work: Decolonising the Gaze, make for the accompanying subtitled content.
OUR NON-HUMAN PSYCHE 2020
HD Digital Video 10m50
Exploring the edge of a forest, we are called further into its cradle of trees and rocks. How do they receive us? How do they relate with us? What do they tell us? If only we could hear their primordial hum, no longer familiar and forgotten.
Consider the immensity and expanse of time, speaking through and to our ancient biology while exploring the purity of nature, our own receptivity to it, and the subtle frequencies when we visit those slow and still silent places.