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Macropus eugenii (tammar wallaby)

 

coastline
Macropus eugenii (tammar wallaby) 2006 Installation
to map
Artwork, image and photography copyright © Perdita Phillips inimitable
10 x 10 m
vinyl on floor
Exhibition: Chart 2006 John Curtin Art Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Bentley
the nonhuman, fieldwork, marsupials, radiotracking

In an exhibition whose theme was mapping the radio tracking data of a two tammar wallabies on Garden Island off the coast of Perth are reproduced as a floor map. The blue (female) and aqua (male) marks are technologically mediated signatures at 1:100 scale.

view from the south

view from the south

Indian Ocean

 

passers by -- not interested in contemporary art

 

annoyed that I am photographing

 

symmetry walk

detail of male

concentrated life

 

detailed existence

detail of female

danger, reef

scale bar

entrance rocks

exit gallery space