Bundanon

David Capra’s work examines ‘intercession; practices claimed to solicit intervention in initiating spiritual and literal healing’. Capra’s performance work is articulated through such gestures as the laying on of hands, flag waving, dance and glossolalia (speaking-in-tongues). Capra’s use of objects in his work ‘function as props, yielding towards ornamentation and layered with imagery streaming from prophetic visionary encounters’.

During his residency at the Bundanon in 2013, Capra created new work that continued his exploration into the notion of ‘artist as mystic’. Capra engaged with Bundanon, its site, history and architecture and examining relationships to ‘prophetic and intercessory dance; purposeful movements said to be inspired by a higher force’.