four tales from natural history

Four Tales from Natural History
2004
Four Tales from Natural History, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
fieldwork/fieldwalking, The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery (2006)

A sound installation with four identical lecterns which broadcasted sounds of animals, earthquakes, plants and fire ecologists when viewers approached. The position and control of the viewer as the authoritative speaker at a lectern was challenged, playing with and destabilising the classical hierarchy of nature.

four track sound installation

 

 
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