Bundanon

Michele Barker is an artist working in the field of media arts with a focus on experimental cinema.

Anna Munster is an artist, writer and academic focusing on sound, composition and audiovisual interaction.

Barker and Munster have collaborated for over 25 years, most recently focusing on experimental cinema, drone cinematography and environmental soundscapes to explore time – human and more-than – and embodied engagement with the environment. Developing art that integrates a vast range of technological platforms, their work has been included in Vidarte, the Mexican Biennale of Video Art; The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Taipei, The Photographer’s Gallery, London; FILE Festival, Sao Paolo; Museum of Art, Seoul; and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Lisa Gye in Realtime describes their work as: ‘..a subtle commentary on the relations between our own inflated human sense of time and the magnitude of geospatial time at a time of ecological crisis.’

In Residence at Bundanon

The residency project is part of an ongoing largescale installation, ecologies of duration. We will gather audiovisual material from Dharawal and Dhurga/Bundanon environments using drones and specialised microphones. This will be integrated into film and sound channels captured immediately after the Black Summer fires and floods and already in development. We hope to create a unique ‘ecology’ specific to the Shoalhaven region. The integration of cinematography and field recordings from different periods of fire and flood aftermaths will become interwoven in this ‘ecology’, suggesting both collapse and expansion of temporal and spatial scale. Beyond climate anxiety and apathy, the ‘ecology’ will register tensions between human and more-than-human experience of rapidly changing climate.