Elders Yarn is a video art work which tells the story of Widjabul-Wiabul connection to country, which is a place of belonging and believing. Featuring two well-known and respected elders from this region, Uncle Roy Gordon and Auntie Thelma James, who will share creation stories, language, song and tell us what it means to belong to this place.  

Filmed in collaboration with the elders, this project gives the audience an insight into the importance Widjabul-Wiabul people place on connection to country as it relates to all aspects of their existence.  This film work, made especially for this year’s Shine festival, ties in with the Naidoc theme for 2021 “Heal Country.” Viewers will be drawn into a space of deep listening and are invited to reflect on their own relationship to caring for place and celebrating the depth of cultural knowledge here.   

This immersive film work will be projected across three screens floating on the Croquet Club lawns on Molesworth St.  Each projection will show a different aspect of the story, so can be watched multiple times with changing perspectives.  A view of the storyteller will fill the central screen with the other screens revealing visual aspects of the stories through landscape imagery and artwork.

More information about Karenza Ebejer is available here.

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2020 Each Week  "2020 Each Week is a series of 52 one-minute experimental films, one for each week of the year.  The series forms a video diary that chronicles my creative year.  I am a dancer and these videos reflect my perspectives on Screendance, movement, rhythm, colour, texture, sound, light, and nature. 

The discipline of regular practice required that I confront my sense of imperfection, unfamiliarity with the medium, and apprehensions about sharing my work publicly.  2020 Each Week stimulated my senses and perceptions, once again reminding me that 'it’s not what you see, but how you see.'"

More information about Colleen Coy is available here.

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Flower - Projection Sculpture "Autumn Flower combines my love of projection made in symbiosis with sculptural form. This work was formed in a dream and in creating the video I chose to use domestic found objects and natural elements to give colour, beauty, and encoded memory to the work. Within the centre jewel’s reflection, a subtle video plays capturing events that took place during the sculpture’s construction.

Jewels were one of the earliest forms of surveillance, queens would turn their ring to see the expressions of her council in the facet reflections.  Imagine the memories and energy of times harnessed, captured within its body."

This video collage is made of images of domestic and found objects in symbiosis with the 3d sculptural component. Within the reflection of this centre jewel, a subtle video plays, capturing the red shed studio and events that took place during the sculpture’s construction. This work was originally commissioned by family nightclub and was enjoyed by 100,000 of club goers.  It evolves with each new incarnation through site specificity and new projections.

 More information about Marion Conrow is available here.

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Oscillation "Oscillation is the pressure of a sound wave or the voltage of an alternating current vibrating. Oscillation is also a playful and curious live performance by visual artist Kellie O’Dempsey and sound artist Mick Dick. Opening new portals in space and time using lines of light and waves of intergalactic audio, this unique real time projection explores transformation and wonder via performance and play.

Hand-drawn moving lines the size of buildings are drawn to the mesmerising sounds of a custom made single-string bass. Propelled by delay and reverb these hypnotic animations form a new collaborative work for Shine Festival 2021. Oscillation will transport you into and out of this world."

More information about Kellie & Mick is available here.

 Photo Credit: Natski

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‘InGenium’ Ingenium- Latin –genius/ natural talent/Engineer. Take 1970’s String art, Increase the size, add a mathematician with a dash of creative, mix these with an installation string artist. Reconfigure the original 1970’s works into massive works of the contemporary, add a dash of flair, give these two ‘Aspies’ some space, add a couple of black lights and you have a recipe for a spectacular creation.

InGenium was born from many enthusiastic discussions involving the huge potentials of art utilising mathematics, string, and black lights. The aim:  to create a semi-interactive and wonderous kaleidoscope of shapes and colours which can be traversed by the viewers at a leisurely pace.

Creating a visual sensory experience is the mainstay of the InGenium team while staying true to each team member as artists in their own rights. The morphing of 1970’s string art into contemporary works including arches, wings, windows, and 3D sculptures along with tree like structures creates a visual immersive experience. Unlike laser light or projections, the string structures will be available to the public within daytime hours, holding their own artistic value even when unlit. Come night fall, under the black lights, the laneway becomes an extremely flamboyant artist experience.

Photo by Annie Monks

 

More information on the artists can be found here.

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Light and Mirrors is the collaboration of Betty Russ and Michael Donnelly. Together they pursue a material practice that subverts the usually insular avenues of thought that mark the art making process via the dialogue and compromise that frames the process. Lights and Mirrors comprises of a 2.4m x 1.2m x 1.2m crate housing a mirror walled prism filled with objects and lights.

The interior of the prism can be viewed via peepholes rendered in the external walls of the crate and interior walls of the mirrored prism. The peepholes also allow the lights from within the structure to escape as beams.

The work addresses the dialogue between interior and exterior, of perception and expectations, and the duality of understanding tempered by the human experience of materiality. People are encouraged to view the interior of the nondescript crate with the reward of gaining visual access to an internal world of transcendent ocular stimulation. The hope of the artists is to metaphorically represent the act of awakening a shift in perception can induce when we engage our physical surroundings with a desire to learn and experience things beyond ourselves.

More information about the artists can be found here.

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Lismore Lover Lights ACTUALITY FILMS,  ART HAPPENINGS and WETSHOWS from the 1960s and 1970s .. WETSHOWS  and Liquid Lightshows from the 60s utilising clock glasses and coloured oils and water were filmed and used in groups with multiple projectors in Lightshows right through to today. Some of them have 3 or more operators working to different beats so they could be married with different musical styles. Or shown on their own as Moving Artwork 

ACTUALITY FILMS are non-fiction film genre that, like the documentary film, uses footage of real events, places, and things, yet unlike the documentary is not structured into a larger argument, picture of the phenomenon or coherent whole. We will be showing a number of these made by Roger Foley FOGG as he comes across interesting events happenings over a period of some 45 years. Some are of people he interacts with. People, such as Martin Sharp, Elton John, The Aquarius Festival, Nimbin, 1973 and adventures in India, America and on Gija land in the Kimberley etc. 

More information about the artist is available here. 

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TransiT is a site specific multi art form performance/installation involving 21 local artists of varying ability transforming The Transit Precinct and the buildings opposite in Molesworth Street into a canvas for live original art. TransiT is a creative investigation into journeys, both metaphorical and physical.  “where do I/we/you/they come from? “and “where are we going?” 

TransiT works with community members and past and present patrons of the “Transit Centre” to collect their stories and craft them into the projections, music, shadow puppetry, poetry and movement that create this unique live art experience.  

TransiT -The journey has begun!

More information on RealArtworks here.

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13 Moons (It's about time...)  "Greetings, fellow Time Travellers, here is an invitation to participate in a dimensional time shift. Open your minds to a subtle rearrangement in time. Welcome to the fourth dimensional radial matrix of time. Like wheels within wheels spiralling through space and time. Be prepared to r-evolve in the spiralling cosmic dance of the moon and the earth around the sun.

The number 13 is the cosmic progression from the linear 3D Gregorian calendar, 12 irregular months and the 12:60 mechanised clock (time is money) to the radial 4D harmonic matrix. 4:7:7:13 (time is art)

The revolution is HERE. The evolution is NOW. It's time to change our minds and reconnect with natural cycles. This installation is an invitation to shift our perception of time through the 13 moon calendar. It provides a template to time that reconnects us in an elegant and sophisticated mathematical system.

A fourth dimensional change to increase our understanding of synchronicity, telepathy and time. Using the clock tower of the old Lismore Post Office as glitchy time machine we witness the transition to the new/now time.

The time's they are a changing... Get with the program."

More information abou the artist here

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Flood Stories: Immersion is an audio walk and storytelling project that invites you to activate your imagination and float through Lismore’s CBD in flood. Become part of the story as you walk through watery soundscapes, and listen to sonic scenes about the 2017 Lismore flood as you take a CBD blockie. Flood Stories: Immersion features excerpts from the original Flood Stories installation at the Lismore Quad in April-May 2021 but is reconfigured for a 360 audio experience.

Created by Jeanti St Clair, an audio documentary-maker, Southern Cross University lecturer and City of Lismore resident, Flood Stories: Immersion features the voices and stories of Lismore residents impacted by the 2017 flood and those involved in the clean-up and recovery.

Flood Stories: Immersion is an app-based experience that requires you to bring your own phone and headphones. Download the Echoes interactive sound walk app to your smart phone from your app store; then search for and download the Flood Stories: Immersion audio walk before following the route on the map.

Note: Wearing earphones is an absolute must to experience the full 360 audio design. Experiences may differ depending on brand and model of smartphone and headphones used.

TRIGGER WARNING: This audio walk features scenes of inundation and flood impact.

 More information about the artist here

 

 

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Three Pianos is a bold visual and aural experience. Three pianos in a public space with three players lit by delicate lamplight. Entwining melodies building to a cathartic climax and then a softly illuminated denouement. Three Pianos had its debut performance at Take Over presented by the Bangalow Theatre Company in September 2020 and it has evolved to now include three pieces composed by Melia Naughton and performed by three local pianists.

The performance celebrates the beauty, intensity and resonance of these times we live in. Revisioned for Shine Festival Lismore, this piece is standout, memorable and distinctive. Visually effective, immersive and site specific, this piece will come alive in Lismore’s old regional gallery. It is surprising, engaging and communal. 

'Variations on a theme of Catharsis,' 'Glorious' and 'After the storm - Glistening' are inspired by  the depth, nuance and emotion of the piano to the power of three. 

" Never seen anything like it. Blew my mind." Bernard Fanning

"Breathtakingly spectacular." Bronnie Hudson

"A powerful piece of art." Shorty Brown

 More information about the artist here

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YOU ARE As a consequence of recent lockdown periods, many of us began to reflect on ourselves and our position in the world. With the ubiquitous use of video conferencing, Skype, House-Party, Zoom, WhatsApp, Tik Tok and FaceTime, we were looking at our faces on a screen more than ever. These technological mediated pictures of ourselves bring our attention to our own flaws more frequently.

We are noticing our odd teeth, wrinkles, bad hair and strange expressions. The transformation that takes place in ourselves when viewing a streamed self-image can make us feel insecure and doubtful, These feelings become amplified when the casual reassurance and positive affirmations, usually obtained from face to face engagement with other human beings, is missing.

The video work YOU ARE, provides a counter-measure to self-doubt, depression and other associated troubles with selfhood to assist with the re-emergence of the self after lockdown.

 More information about the artist here

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