Blossom Spheres was created in the midst of the Melbourne lockdown. Allowed an hour out each day, within a five kilometre bubble of home, I took to walking around the block to admire the springtime blossom on the street trees. Rendered as point clouds, foliage dissolved as vibrant matter.

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Image description: Purple flowers with green fern-like leaves burst from the centre of the image which has a dulled black background.

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CURRENT is an experimental film that aims to challenge gender division and dismantle heteronormative assumptions. Threading meaning through expressionist dance and landscape mapping, the work is a conceptual interpretation of a queer symbiotic relationship unfolding.

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Image description: A woman with short dark hair stands on a beach with a wintery sea behind her. She holds her right arm in front of her with her fingers outstretched. There is fluorescent yellow mesh fabric draped across her head and over her face which flows down the front of her body.

This work is an inquiry into the digital computational gaze as it examines real physical space. It utilises lo-fi systems for photogrammetry, light detection and ranging (LiDAR – Laser scanning or surveying) from site specific recordings at Collingwood Yards to generate a semi-translucent and layered digital terrain. Eric Jong’s work explores algorithmic driven spatial technology and mediated perception at the limits of access and format. 

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Image description: A digital image of a room made up of small coloured squares, pixels and other abstract shapes.

Inspired by the Qing Dynasty feminist literature, Flowers in the Mirror (鏡花緣), this hologram projection work explores the scape and body of the virtual space via holographic advertising technology. The Chinese proverb, 鏡花水月 (mirror flower, water moon), means something that can be seen but not touched, as the reflections of flowers in the mirror and the moon reflected on the surface of water are something that is beautiful yet unattainable.

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Scotty is represented by MARS Gallery in Australia.

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WARNING: Projection content has explicit images.

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Image description: A woman with dark hair stands in a long red dress with matching red gloves smiles at the camera. She holds a paper fan in her left hand and wears a hold headpiece in her hair. 

Change in Condition explores the physical and environmental transformation of the site of Collingwood Yards, during its last stages of construction. Derived from drawings responding to sound recordings captured on site, surface rubbings and in-situ frame by frame hand-drawn animation, the work combines interpretations of the physical and environmental data with motion, to reflect on its process of change.

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Image description: Images of bright blue light geometric shapes on a black background are projected onto the side of a brick wall. The shapes are reminiscent of technology.

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Architecture’s preoccupation with ‘normality’ has left little room for queer space to come to the fore. These works in this exhibition aim to highlight how perceived dominant heterosexual spaces can be altered to queer space.

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Image description: A red, inflatable tube man or skydancer with arms flapping. There is an artificial pond and building with glass windows in the background.

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A site responsive animation exploring resurfacing: from lockdown, from being caught in a rip and the re-emergence of a long lost character. She will swim across the textures of Collingwood Yards, and play amongst the paving stones.

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Image description: A small doll with light brown hair and large eyes stands against a grey background. She points and looks at something off camera.

Move Me is a site-specific installation for Collingwood Yards. Yandell Walton uses photogrammetry technology to create 3D models of nature and combines these with human movement through Motion Capture. Creating cross-species forms, Yandell attempts to imbed humanity with the environment to highlight a reconnection to nature.

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This work was created with support from the Australian Network for Art and Technology IDEATE program.

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Image description: An image of a large cactus plant with light green on the outside of its leaves and darker green on the inside. It sits against a background reminiscent of a blue and orange sunset at dusk.

Proof considers the malleability of the electronic image by creating images of viewers that emerge out of clouds of random data noise. The work explores how our experience of the world is increasingly based on potentially manipulated information via images, through screens and virtual media rather than tangible reality.

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Image description: Small white and multicoloured squares stand out against a black background. The shapes are so small they appear like stars or dust against a night sky.

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We could not support each other in this strange space. All Peoples dying from this pandemic, once in one hundred years. Black people murdered, in this pandemic, not once in one hundred years. I will wear your black face again... But you won’t like it.

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Image description: A close up image of a woman’s face, framing closely on her eyes and nose which have been covered in black and white paint.

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Untitled (Journey) is a single channel HD video work that documents the execution by marooning of two young men in 1727 for the crime of sodomy – the first European victims of homophobia on Australian soil. The work recreates in real time the final journey where the young men were left to die.

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Image description: Image of a room with a projection at the centre. The image on the projection screen is the ocean far from shore and a cloudy, grey sky.

Acts of Holding Dance is a series of projection works featuring dance and post-process design. Presented as a large scale projection, Acts of Holding Dance was instigated when the artist identified a lack of dance work within the local projection art scene.

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Image description: Images of people and shadows dancing against a bright, white body of water is projected onto a brick wall of a building at dusk.