SERIES / EXHIBITIONS / Detritus Springs
2018
Title: Detritus Springs
Someone’s waste is another’s treasure, as the saying goes, which becomes the heart of recycling, re-inventing and transforming material from one form into another. The George Farmer Building is a testament from which detritus springs into a new built form. The same could be said of plant life, the hardy tenacious weed that shoots new growth through cracks in concrete where the conditions for life emerge from very slim margins. Detritus Springs is a performance, installation and video that from a smoke filled place of post apocalyptic illusion re-creates the potential for new life in a form that is perhaps unfamiliar.
The video is a collaboration with Ben Mangan, Dave McKinnar and Luke Keys
Sound: Steve Bell.
Photography, Christina Simons
Commissioned by BOAA, The Biennale of Australian Art curated by Julie Collins, 2018.
