SKYHAMMER

Narelle Hurley, Marnie Orr, photo Coralie Bywater

a performance installation

Can we dance a passage of country?
What is the listening of that country?
Sounding, imaging and traversing the Centre-
an equation of analogues...a dictionary of atmospheres

Skyhammer is a performance installation bringing together elements of the first of three art laboratories in Central Australia entitled Triple Alice.

Using their experiences from Triple Alice 1, the three-week intensive laboratory 100km north west of Alice Springs which took place in Sept-Oct 1999, De Quincey Co created a work which circled around the space of the central desert.

Harsh and delicate, beautiful and tough, the bodies weave within energy systems that distill mythological trajectories. Fragile hues flutter in tonal frequencies between subtle shadows. Gashes and splashes of violence reverberate in exquisite fluctuations.

Visual art, poetry, philosophy and technology form an equation of analogues in sound, movement and image. This is a mapping of raw fields, a connective tissue that pulls a vortex into view .

Peter Fraser, photo: Coralie Bywater