clare dyson
installation
INSTALLATION
Many of Clare's performance works re also installations or have components that are installation-basedWITH.ME
intimacy | quietness | contemplation
interactive sound installation
about alone-ness and loneliness
chairs and tables that react to the body of the audience
audience walk throughout and sit to hear sound
various installation spaces
UNSETTLED series I, II & III
performer | secrets | one-on-one | audience
one-on-one performances installations that unsettle and move the audience into unexpected places
seen best at festivals where the audience is up for adventure
brisbane powerhouse + sean young studios + substation, brisbane
METIS
art | science festival
installation in collaboration with dr steve hill based on performance work constructed realities
lightboxes, grass, video installation + kangaroo poo research
contemporary art space gallery, manuka, ACT
metis was an art + science festival held annually in canberra in collaboration between the new media arts fund and the national science centre. this festival no longer exists.
in 2004, clare and steve were asked to present the research developed during their performance work constructed realities and to re-vision it and install it in a gallery during the festival.
during their collaboration, steve was also researching the feeding habits of kangaroos to determine if their poo would indicate what kind of geology lay beneath the surface: did the plants on the surfact reflect what they were planted in? and if they did, what annimals ate them in a wide enough feeding radius to make analysis of their poo useful? steve found that his theories were right (of course) and that research, along with the kangaroo poo and the other installation material was presented at this festival.
there was also a performance component to this installation that happened twice throughout the duration of the festival.
SPICES
pathways | journeys | fire | labyrinths
performance and installation work in multiple sites throughout the old canberra brickworks
created at dusk the audience made their own work each night with fire, water, singing, lemons + spices
joint choreographic centre fellows 1998
the performance was about journeys and desire
the audience could choose where their journey would take them - to create their own version of the work
the work was two hours
it required the audience to journey to thirteen different performance areas throughout the brickworks
it was performed in summer, as night was falling
the work utilised
natural light, fire, theatrical lighting installations
water, sand, smell and sound
to evoke images and sensations of deire, memory, love and wonder
each night the audience constructed the work afresh
the audiences' journey was the work
created by clare dyson and rachael jennings as joint
choreographic centre fellows in 1998
DROWNING
TRACES
memories | childhood | traces | marks
it was new to us in those days!
performance + installation made with love, risk, beauty, water, sand and ritual
circus, dance, music, visual art
old tenerife wharves, brisbane
MOOTJEE
friendship | unity | reconciliation
performance celebrating 10 years of the council for reconciliation
an experience reconciling our many cultures
breakfast + art at the great hall, parliament house canberra for the prime minister