circle of deceit 2024
october23 - November5
tues-sat 11am-6pm
single channel video installation, rotating projector, 4 channel sound
Swirling across gallery walls, faces emerge, moving, in protest, through smoke haze, in red, black and brown. Sound envelopes from each corner of the room, as we place ourselves within the work's vortex
forumprojects gallery
season1
ENIGMA
immersive sound and video art
october 23 - january 25
tues-sat 11am-6pm
wharf 4/5, dockside, hickson rd
Walsh bay arts precinct
The Magnetic Quiet Zone
November 6-20
tues-sat 11am-6pm
TMQZ is an immersive, 35-minute audio-visual installation exploring the frozen sounds and stagnant silences, the strange atmospherics and dynamic forces operating at the margins of our planet. Drawing on the Antarctic research of sound artist Philip Samartzis, visual artist Martin Walch, and writer/composer Sean Williams, TMQZ uses field recordings, digital imaging and animation, and ambient music to render complex behaviours, vast spaces, material encounters and wild weather to express the uncanniness of the ice continent. The animated video comprising images captured at 150 second intervals over the 2017/18 austral summer provides a record of light and shadow, mutable weather, and the rhythm of human activity to distort the fabric of space and time.
Significance
The ways people live and work in remote places such as Antarctica progressively resembles the broader contemporary experience, in which strict protocols and hyper-vigilance mitigates risk. The unpredictable nature of life in extremis that necessitates constant adaptation is in many ways how we live on the rest of the planet where our assumptions are regularly tested. The resilient communities who occupy these distant, fragile places provide models of resistance that can help deepen understanding of the impact of environmental dissonance. Artists and writers play an increasingly vital role in observing and recording the tension between climate, landscape, technology, and human action, to demonstrate the interconnectedness of things.
Acknowledgement
TMQZ is produced through the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship program which hosted Samartzis in 2010 and 2016, Walch in 2017/ 2018, and Williams in 2017. TMQZ is created within the framework of the ARC-funded Discovery Project, “Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South”.
forumprojects gallery
season1
ENIGMA
immersive sound and video art
october 23 - january 25
tues-sat 11am-6pm
wharf 4/5, dockside, hickson rd
Walsh bay arts precinct
three divers
november21 - december5
tues-sat 11am-6pm
Many freedivers refer to their practice as spiritual, a form of meditation or mental medicine — relaxing the body so the mind remains calm. This video work captures three divers as they practice breath-hold techniques during a pool training session.
Music: Tom Hogan
Divers featured: Ryan Boyle, Kane Becker, Andrew Hasset
forumprojects gallery
season1
ENIGMA
immersive sound and video art
october 23 - january 25
tues-sat 11am-6pm
wharf 4/5, dockside, hickson rd
Walsh bay arts precinct
Diva Deduction II
A pure sound art work
december23 - january7
tues-sat 11am-6pm
forumprojects gallery
season1
ENIGMA
immersive sound and video art
october 23 - january 25
wharf 4/5, dockside, hickson rd
Walsh bay arts precinct
forumprojects gallery
season2
april 23 - may 14
tues-sat 11am-6pm
lament 1+2
Exposing and questioning the space between the audience and the performers, the individual and the community, the private within the public.
lament 1+2 is an installation for video and a grid of wooden chairs, with each chair electronically triggered so that it's wood resonates, turning the chair into a speaker, and a separate channel of audio. As each audience member sits next to an empty chair that ‘speaks and sings’, they watch another audience on screen sit in similar chairs, watching them, associating each person on screen with a chair in the space.
forumprojects gallery
wharf 4/5, dockside, hickson rd
Walsh bay arts precinct
Prepared Piano for Movers (Haussmann)
Single-channel High Definition video 9:16, colour, stereo sound
Duration: 5 minutes 32 seconds
January 9-25
tues-sat 11am-6pm
forumprojects gallery
season1
ENIGMA
immersive sound and video art
october 23 - january 25
wharf 4/5, dockside, hickson rd
Walsh bay arts precinct
forumprojects gallery
season2
may 20 - june 15
wed - sun 10am - 8pm
Maqamat (2017), recordings of Jewish Iraqi musicians form the basis of an immersive audiovisual piece that reflects on the psychology of diaspora and longing.
Shomer (2019) deconstructs the architecture of the Magen Avraham Synagogue in Beirut, using it as a lens to examine memory, authenticity, and preservation.
Omek-Umk (2021) continues this exploration, weaving together sound, text, and digital manipulation to reflect on the complexities of cultural belonging.
forumprojects gallery
wharf 4/5, dockside, hickson rd
Walsh bay arts precinct
