Time Tracing
Video Projection | 40 metres long
Wagga Wagga Library and Council Façade | Wagga Wagga, NSW
1 Oct - 30 Oct 2020
Kellie O’Dempsey | Sound: Mick Dick | Videographer: Damien Jenkins from Next Inline Productions | Performers: Wes Boney, Zoë Hadler, Natasha Strimpf, Markus Wright
Time Tracing recreates the map lines of the Murrumbidgee river as giant water drawings in the earth, which–over time–move, extend and connect. Working in collaboration with local Wagga Wagga artists, this large scale video work incorporates dance, movement and sound that simulate the power of the Murrumbidgee river catchment. This ancient and fragile ecosystem has held and traced story for communities throughout time; Time Tracing aims to honour the unique characteristics of the Murrumbidgee river, in all its all states; flood, drought and flow acknowledging the catchment’s significance to communities both past and present. Filmed on the banks of the river at dusk, with Indigenous and non-Indigenous emerging performers of Wagga Wagga, the video aims to celebrate the River’s connection to the land and people it supports across time as a collision of moving bodies utilise lines and repetition.
Credit | Photography: The Artist