TĦΞ 8TĦ DΔΥ ⨀ 2025
HD Digital Triple Channel Dance Work Video, 18m
Performers: Kerzlake, Dr Lian Loke, Kirsten Packham, Catherine McNamara, Ira Ferris, Lily Alcock
The 8th Day is an anti-dogma dance video work challenging origin stories, by privileging ancient feminist, corporeal and land-informed cosmologies. As we currently witness the Anthropocenic disintegration of our social and ecological systems, this work presents a creative convergence, for another world.
Contributing to its genesis was inspiration from the Desert Mothers and the Rebel Virgins of the Levant and their forgotten desert based mysticism, their monastic embodied practices overshadowed by scripture and Australia’s ancient and striking UNESCO heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region; a place sculpted by deep time, wind, water, salt and holding a 60,000 year old record of human presence.
Under the guidance of Auntie Tanya Charles, a Mutthi Mutthi Elder, the dancers explored how embodied and imaginative practices applied in chorus, creates a ritualised covenant unifying land and body; becoming more-than-human. In her words, ’Spirit being danced back into Country,’ may position this work as a socio-spiritual exercise; one with which to anchor ourselves back into our Earth and our Earth into us.
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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.
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.