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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. 
Australian Sites. Inspirited Landscapes and the Social Sacred. PHD

ANTHOLOGY 2014 http://www.anthology.net.au

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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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The Spectre of Grief...Visualising Ontological Terror in Performance

​RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2018
 
Morris, Louise 2018, Pieces of silver, Edited by Prins, K. and Combe, N., Hillscene live festival, 2018/11/18 - 2018/11/18, Melbourne, Vic., Deakin University.
 
Morris, Louise 2018, Out of the ruins - Australian sites, inspirited landscapes and the social sacred, Ph.D thesis, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University.
 
Morris, Louise 2018, TIDE and the social sacred, in Sacred Sites/Sacred Stories: Global Perspectives, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, Canberra, A.C.T., pp. 1-35.
 
Morris, Louise 2018, Crossings, in Crossings, Arts Centre Melbourne, 2018/05/25 - 2018/05/25.
 
2017
 
Morris, Louise 2017, Tide, in Tide, Royal Park Melbourne, 2017/04/22 - 2017/04/22.
 
Morris, Louise 2017, Night harbour, in Night Harbour, Arts Centre Melbourne and Southbank Vic, 2017/05/19 - 2017/05/19.
 
2016
 
Morris, Louise 2016, Silent yarning durational performance installation, Gumbi Gumbi Gardens USQ Toowoomba, 2016.
 
Wilson, Anne and Morris, Louise 2016, Lorne sculpture biennale: site specific performance improvisation, Lorne, Vic., 19 Mar. 2016, [Lorne, Vic.], [Lorne Sculpture Biennale].
 
Morris, Louise 2016, Adrift, Deakin University, Arts Centre Melbourne, Vic..
 
2015
 
Morris, Louise and O'Farrell, Jof 2015, Diving horses, in Diving Horses. Performance (2015 : Arts Centre, Melbourne, Victoria), Arts Centre Melbourne, 22 May. 2015.
 
 
2014
Morris, Louise and Buining, Pip 2014, ANTHOLOGY...a microcosm of a city, Canberra Railway Museum, November 2014, ArtsACT.
 
Morris, Louise 2014, Woven, in Circling The Brink (2014 : Emerald, Vic.), Telopea Gardens, Emerald, Vic., 12 - 13 Apr. 2014.
 
Morris, Louise 2014, Inspirited landscapes: the anthology project, in ADSA 2014 : Restoring balance : ecology/sustainability/performance : Proceedings of the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies 2014 conference, Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA), Brisbane, Qld., pp. 1-8.
 
Morris, Louise and O'Neil, Miles 2014, Stories from the river, in Stories from the river, Hamer Hall Riverside Terraces and Southbank CBD, 21 May 2014.
 
2013
Morris, Louise and O'Neil, Miles 2013, The hive, in Deakin University Experimental Theatre, Federation Square, 22 May 2013.
 
Morris, Louise and O'Neil, Miles 2013, Australian gothic, in Deakin University Experimental Theatre, Federation Square, 22 May 2013.
 
2012
Morris, Louise 2012, Mapping the dislocation of a collective : site-specific practice and the impossibility of relocation (The Red Cabbage Collective 2001-2011), in ADSA 2012 : Compass Points: The Locations, Landscapes and Coordinates of Identities : Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) 2012 Conference Proceedings, [ADSA], [Brisbane, Qld.].
 
2011
Morris, Louise 2011, COLLAPSE : transcendence and transgression in the creation of space-specific visual performance, in ADSA 2011 : Transcultural. Transnational. Transformation. : seeing, writing and reading performance across cultures : Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Annual Conference, [ADSA], [Melbourne, Vic.], pp. 1-2.
 
2010
 
Morris, Louise 2010, Unspeakable terrain : visualising ontological terror in performance, in ADSA 2010 : Stripping Bare : Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Annual Conference, [ADSA], [Canberra, A.C.T.], pp. 1-12.
 
 
Morris, Louise 2007, The spectre of grief...visualising ontological terror in performance, Master of Animateuring thesis, School of Drama, The University of Melbourne.
Morris, Louise and Rutter, Rebecca 2011, June ... the place does not matter, in The Village Festival, Edinburgh Gardens, 3-6 Nov. 2011.
 
Conway, Karla, Woodward, Joe, Buining, Pip, Morris, Louise and Aberline, Matthew 2010, Retrieval, National Library of Australia, 19 Nov. - 5 Dec. 2010.
 
2006> 2010
Morris, Louise, Smith, Tania, Prins, Kirsten and Hamilton, Anna 2008, Collapse, Spotswood Jetty. & unnamed location, 19-30 Nov. 2008.
 
Morris, Louise, Smith, Tania, Prins, Kirsten and Hamilton, Anna 2006, Hedge-mony, in Commonwealth Games (18th : 2006 : Melbourne, Vic.), Melbourne Museum, 26 March 2006.



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