AELA Voices of Nature Exhibition 2020
14.-19.October @ Vacant Assembly Brisbane, Queensland Australia
https://events.humanitix.com/voices2020-national-opening-night
This interdisciplinary collaboration brings together ecoacoustics, photomedia, composition, and poetics to listen deeply into the Umbi Umbi tree of the Gunggari peoples. This work is formed from recording the frequencies of the Umbi Umbi, as it transitions through decay and regeneration, attempting to take the listener into contemplation, encouraging healing through listening. This work grew as part of an ongoing conversation with Gunggari Elders, sharing as they walked with the artists on Country and online, stories and journeys of the precious medicinal plants and their healing properties. The motivation for this project came from wanting to invite audiences into a more deeply felt sense of nature, to take the time to appreciate our place in nature.
The artists would like to acknowledge the ancient culture and customs of the Gunggari People, proud Traditional Owners of an area spanning 37,100 square kilometres in Queensland's Maranoa Region.
The artists would also like to express our appreciation and deep gratitude, for their time and the contribution of the storylines by Gunggari Elder Aunty Lynette Nixon, and her daughter Saraeva Mitchell, forming the foundation for this project.
Renata Buziak
Renata Buziak (PhD) is passionate about physically engaging nature and organic processes in her photo-media practice. She is an artist, educator and researcher based in Brisbane.
Renata’s practice builds on historical and experimental photography, intercultural and art-science research, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. For over a decade Renata has been developing an image making process- the biochrome, by fusing organic and photographic materials subject to organic decomposition. Her recent PhD research focused on Australian native medicinal plants from Minjerribah / North Stradbroke Island.
Renata’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally, received a number of art awards, and features in private and public collections.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renatabuziak/?hl=en
Leah Barclay
Leah is an Australian sound artist, composer and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and technology. She specialises in electroacoustic music, acoustic ecology and emerging fields of biology exploring environmental patterns and changes through sound. Her work has been commissioned, performed and exhibited to wide acclaim around the world. Leah composes complex sonic environments that draw attention to changing climates and fragile ecosystems. These works are realised through live performances, interactive installations and site-specific interventions drawing on environmental field recordings, data sonification, live streams and immersive sound diffusion.
Vicki Kelleher
Vicki is an experimental spoken word artist working with words and resonance, exploring ourselves as nature. Taking form as written and spoken poetry, poetic landscapes, collaborations in words and visual ecological settings, and collaborative improvisational performance work with Australian and International composers, musicians, movement, and visual artists. Vicki's work has been exhibited at GOMA and The Edge, in Brisbane, and performed as a member of Bloom Collective at Contexts 2018, the 8th International Festival of Ephemeral Arts in Sokowosko, Poland.
https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryshop
Tanja Brueggemann
Austrian composer Tanja lives and works in Vienna. Her compositions are based on recordings of natural soundscapes, adaptations for acoustic instruments, and the quest for the real and artificial in redefining acoustic phenomena. Tanja enjoys working intensively with people all over the world, getting to know their approach to life, science, music and sound, through voices, dialects, playing instruments, natural soundscapes and relatedness to vocalizations of animals. Through her compositions, Tanja receives the joy to interact with individuals and environments, being grateful for their offerings.
https://www.tanjabrueggemann.com/tanja_brueggemann/unheard_poetry_of_the_depths.html
Image:
Renata Buziak
Umbi Umbi (Gumby Gumby), 2020, biochrome stills from
Yimbali-Listening is a form of healing