Hydropoetics

2021

A performative practice led research project, with outcomes in sculpture, installation and sound.

We are watery bodies in constant motion. We flow with, seep into, and transform each other endlessly through sympoietic gestures. Both tidal and cyclical; a hydropoetics.

This research explores methods and poetic outcomes of composing- and performing-with more-than-human bodies, as well as speculative modes of scoring encounter through embodiment and affect. Created in conversation and collaboration with Lake Gordon through processes of attunement and performative engagement, the work explores tensions and reciprocities between watery bodies; human and more-than-human, personal and political, ecological and corporate.

Presented as a relational, interdisciplinary installation, the work seeks to translate the felt affect of located intra-action.

This project was supported by the Jim Bacon Memorial Foundation.

The work was shown in development at Sawtooth ARI gallery, Launceston in 2021, and a further iteration presented at the UTAS School of Creative Arts & Media 2021 Grad Show, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart.

Pictured at Plimsoll Gallery, 2021.

Images by Cassie Sullivan.

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