Time Tracing

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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.

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Credit | Photography: The Artist

Hardenvale

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Hardenvale – our home in Absurdia
31 Oct 2020 – 31 Jan 2021
Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery | Wagga Wagga, NSW

Hardenvale – our home in Absurdia is a real-scale, immersive, house-like environment by Australian artists Catherine O'Donnell, Kellie O'Dempsey and Todd Fuller.

Through drawing, projection, built form, sound and movement, this collaborative project references the architecture of post war fibro housing as well as spaces the group describe as 'the cultural fringe of Australia'. Crossing three generations, these artists’ re-imagine lived domestic space while expanding the practice of drawing to create an intimate and unsettling experience. Harvesting images from personal narratives of imperfect moments (both familiar and strange), Hardenvale is a humble dwelling made from drawing in which to spend time. This installation invites visitors to reflect on their own experiences and memories of home.

Credits | Photographer: The Artist, Tayla Martin

Street Love

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Street Love
Projection and light installation, sizes variable, Felicity Park | Caloundra, QLD
2 Oct – 4 Oct 2020 | Projections in Felicity Park
2 Oct – 30 Oct 2020 | Window light boxes over Felicity Park

Street Love celebrates community space as a place of consideration and wonder. Curator and artist, Kellie O’Dempsey, invited audiences to share in a participatory exchange through perceptual experience incorporating projection, video, sound and light installation. Street Love includes artwork by Kellie O’Dempsey, Adam Anderson, CLUNKK (Sophie Reid-Singer) and sound by Mick Dick. Together these artists explore the relationship between the physical environment, light, and colour while utilising video to create new interpretations of familiar places.

Place2Play was a creative public activation program in line with the Caloundra Public Art Plan. The project brought temporary and permanent artwork to our streets and laneways, inspiring new ways for residents and visitors to experience and rediscover Caloundra.

Links | Place2Play
Credits | Photographer: Tim Birch, The Artist