An audio-visual sampling of stories, family photos and Super 8 film shared by people who lived full, hard working lives at a time when most families had a piano and others spent their weekends in the bush, at picture theatres and dance halls.
Last month I launched the 10th release from Secession Records and my 8th album since the label opened its doors in 1998. I guess you could call it a concept CD/DVD. The Light Show is a new collaborative work by Sun-Bus-5, a project Chip Wardale and I'd worked up. It … Continue Reading ››
True to its name the exhibition Bamiyarra Not So Still(s) has been far from still. Over the past year it’s been seen in three galleries, two in Victoria and one in New South Wales. It has no doubt created ripple effects beyond view and become, at least for me personally, the proverbial long goodbye
Inside Bamiyarra is a snapshot biopic of a media arts project that brought together a young team of Hazara from refugee backgrounds to work with Melbourne artists and filmmakers. They produced micro-docs, a photo essay and a video installation much of which was inspired by a poem composed by a … Continue Reading ››