The Wrong Kind of Beauty - Sites of Connection
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posted on 2022-10-20, 00:00 authored by Vanessa TomlinsonVanessa Tomlinson, Erik GriswoldErik Griswold, renata Buziak, Jan baker-Finch, Vicki KelleherThis body of video, sound and photography work explores intersections between creative practice and environmental research. The artists employ creative methods to imaginatively explore the issue of gullying and soil erosion to spark curiosity and generate dialogue.
History
ERA Category
- Original Creative Work - Other
Eligible major research output?
- Yes
Research Statement
The Wrong Kind of Beauty incorporates three interconnected filmed performances from a research site at Murphy’s Creek near Toowoomba. Encompassing poetry, movement, imagery, and sound, it expresses the artists’ experiential responses to the fragile eroded environment. This work is the outcome of an interdisciplinary artist-in-residence program at CSIRO, Eco-Science Precinct, Brisbane. The artists were paired with soil scientists to provide a context for the making of the work, and access to the research site. Gully Procession, presents a ritual sensing, sounding, and passing through landscape, and an unfurling of soft fabric that flows like water through the earthen gully floor; On the Rocks shows the artists immersed in, and in dialogue with, the scarred landscape – with its crumbling yet beautiful sculptural forms which link to the paradox of the title; Wrapping portrays a symbolic act of environmental nurturing and healing as the artists gently wrap the hollowed-out earth in gauzy white fabric. A secondary exhibition of this work revealed a new artifact - a cyanotype produced in real time during the performance, and then used as a projected score for yet another performance. This is an ongoing collaborative investigation of soil, re-composition, sound and transformation. The Wrong Kind of Beauty was made as part of the EcoScience Precint Artist-in-residence program 2018. It was then selected by curators Lisa Chandler and Megan Williams to be one of 5 projects included in the Sites of Connection exhibition at USC Gallery 2021. With support from Horizons Festival (Sunshine Coast), the work was part of Field Trips – an international symposium investigating creative practice at the intersection of art, science, technology and the environment - in partnership with USC Arts Gallery, ANAT and Arts Front.Publisher
University of Sunshine CoastPlace of publication
University of Sunshine Coast Art GalleryPublisher URL
Confidential / Culturally sensitive
- No
References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usMavkQ0T5Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmurMggxNGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sWNgJja5u0 https://www.usc.edu.au/art-gallery/what-s-on/sites-of-connectionMedium
photography, film, cyanotype, performance,Number of discrete components
3 films, 5 photographs, 1 performance, 1 cyanotype (made in performance)Authors of work performed
Tomlinson, Griswold, Kelleher, Buziak, Baker-FinchExhibition date from
2021-08-13Exhibition date to
2021-10-30Was the work disseminated?
- Yes
Form of dissemination
- Exhibition
Scope of dissemination
- Regional
Did the work go on tour?
- No