TIDE: Royal Park Melbourne 2017
Louise Morris is a site-specific performance and installation artist whose current research responds to local and historical trauma, place making and belonging for communities and audiences, questioning how Australian cultural memory is circulated and repressed though spiritual and communal understandings of location.
TIDE was a site- specific installation presented at Royal Park Melbourne in 2017. The work was designed to expose the intra-action of place, site and affect in a post-colonial Australian context. The TIDE installation on the Royal Park grasslands set up a number of markers in a very specific relationship that were designed to amplify and draw attention to areas where felt affects were particularly intense and given perceptible materiality. The design was intended to allow individuals to respond and interact with the installation journey in whatever manner they chose. This work explored the concept of inspirited landscapes in an Australian context. Inspirited refers to the spirit of a site that may be enlivened by artistic practice, invoking the memories and histories that lay embedded in its layers, allowing visitors to reconsider their own agency in relation to the active materiality of their surrounds. The research positions site-specific art practice as a form of material philosophy concerned with what could be perceived as a revitalisation of the social sacred. In particular, the ‘sanctification’ of social life that consists of a revaluing of the importance of ‘live and emplaced’ intra-action. Creative action in situ can begin to foster deep connections as we share knowledges about each other and place, and in doing so, reawaken the sacred in relation to the deep ecological mesh, the human-non-human community to which we all belong.
TIDE was a site- specific installation presented at Royal Park Melbourne in 2017. The work was designed to expose the intra-action of place, site and affect in a post-colonial Australian context. The TIDE installation on the Royal Park grasslands set up a number of markers in a very specific relationship that were designed to amplify and draw attention to areas where felt affects were particularly intense and given perceptible materiality. The design was intended to allow individuals to respond and interact with the installation journey in whatever manner they chose. This work explored the concept of inspirited landscapes in an Australian context. Inspirited refers to the spirit of a site that may be enlivened by artistic practice, invoking the memories and histories that lay embedded in its layers, allowing visitors to reconsider their own agency in relation to the active materiality of their surrounds. The research positions site-specific art practice as a form of material philosophy concerned with what could be perceived as a revitalisation of the social sacred. In particular, the ‘sanctification’ of social life that consists of a revaluing of the importance of ‘live and emplaced’ intra-action. Creative action in situ can begin to foster deep connections as we share knowledges about each other and place, and in doing so, reawaken the sacred in relation to the deep ecological mesh, the human-non-human community to which we all belong.
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AVIARY- The Living Museum of the West:
Victorian College of the Arts: Master of Animateuring (Cross-Modal Performance)
AVIARY
The Spectre of Grief: Visualising Ontological Terror in Performance.
Produced and Directed Aviary, a site specific, visual performance at the Living Museum of the West...an examination of liminal/visual performance practice and its relationship to terror and the uncanny in the new millennium. Only one word was uttered in the performance, shattering the constructed visual world.
Video features Jason LeHane, Clare Reynolds, Anna Hamilton, Kirsten Prins and Katie-Jean Harding
Video Production by Matthew Scott.
Core Collaborating Artists are credited in the preface of exegesis:
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Recent Research Papers
Practice Led PhD. Out of the Ruins... To be published soon...2018.
INSPIRITED LANDSCAPES: THE ANTHOLOGY PROJECT http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30065019