Introduced starlings are found in all states of Australia apart from WA (when found here, they are subject to border control). These ones are at Otmoor, near Oxford. I can’t think of any other birds that flock like this in Australia except budgies when they have had a good season. There was another video …
Recently I organised/curated/convened the unruly ecologies: biodiversity and art symposium for SymbioticA: A symposium exploring the possibilities and difficulties of the diversity of life through critical investigations in art, ecology and action. The majority of talks can be accessed here: http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/events/unruly-ecologies Unfotunately the original website no longer exists. It originally contained an online of survey biodiversity …
Z_COLLECT_ALL_NOTHING VARIABLE INPUTFILE=ALL.ALL OUTPUTFILE=MINE ALIVE TYPE=BINARY OBJECT IN (“FOUND”, “NOT FOUND”) TIME=T CONSTANT WANT INEVITABLE EVENT=DEATH START: SET ALIVE=YES DO WHILE ALIVE=YES PERFORM COLLECT_ALL SET TIME=T-1 IF TIME < 1 SET EVENT=DEATH SET ALIVE=NO DELETE ALL MINE ENDIF END COLLECT_ALL: FOR ALL OBJECT IF OBJECT >= 1 WRITE OBJECT INTO MINE ELSE PERFORM HUNT …
Proposition 1: to collect what cannot be collected (by SH) Read More »
Originally I had intended all three propositions for the exhibition How does a network activate a public? to be wall statements only. Thus the third proposition is the most speculative and least determined: World distribution of the Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta according to http://www.iucnredlist.org/ The Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta flies in a ‘casual, hump-backed, …
This is a project for people who reside in the southern hemisphere (anyone else can cheer us on). The process of photocopying a photocopy degrades an image down to a network of nothing. This exchange process begins by assembling a collection of 100 participants in a list arranged by their Longitude. Starting at the …
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Some text entries in no particular order: light and fog SC points and distance.. AH moments LJ space: The relationship between people as objects. The energy we feel. The intimacy and connection. The body language. The distance. The emptiness. Infinity. NC waterfalls… PP nothing NS Love ZS Collect the tears of a happy child. …
You are asked to draw or write a response (no bigger than A4 size) to the question: What cannot be collected? You can be as brief/creative/practical/impractical as you like. Post responses to: Perdita Phillips Lethologica Press PO Box 747 Fremantle WA 6959 AUSTRALIA or email: perdy@perditaphillips.com Deadline: to be in the exhibition “How does a network activate …
Proposition 1: to collect what cannot be collected Read More »
You are asked to draw or write a response (no bigger than A4 size) to the question: What cannot be collected? You can be as brief/creative/practical/impractical as you like. Post responses to: Perdita Phillips Lethologica Press PO Box 747 Fremantle WA 6959 AUSTRALIA or email: perdy@perditaphillips.com Deadline: to be in the exhibition “How does a network activate a …
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Mucking around with old and new representations of the tree of life until it becomes more web-like…. See a slightly larger version here
Critical Writing Residency Kate Abon 6 July – 6 September 2010 Clock Tower Studio A phenomenological experience of landscape Kate Abon is a Perth based artist and arts writer who is interested in the way ontological paradigm shifts change the way we interact with the world. During the twentieth-century, the western philosophical treatment of …
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You are invited to participate in the first World Listening Day, which happens on Sunday, July 18, 2010. World Listening Day celebrates the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology. Come for a sound walk starting at the cannon at 1pm and walking down High Street …
World Listening at the Round House Sunday 18 July Read More »
On Monday (8 February) I visited Lake Richmond, Lake Walyungup and Lake Clifton. At each site I saw pelicans in the sky.
Taken at sunrise at Lake Hayward it represents to me the complexity of ecosystems which I wish to convey in the final work.
