Video Production
contemporary textiles
ephemeral land art installations
This DVD is a production by The Edge Contemporary Art Collective, filmed in the Strathbogie Ranges South Eastern Australia. It juxtaposes art, music and the environment of the Gooram Falls. Contemporary textiles, original guitar and sound explorations are placed in the context of land art, bringing together experiences of the senses, the local creatures and the elements of an inspiring riparian environment.
Susan Fell Mclean creates ephemeral works in the environment with her textiles (pieces of felt, rozome and shibori), interrelating folds and colour to create palimpsests, new layers within the landscape. Her work demonstrates a familiar harmony with the location, and a respect for its elemental qualities and inhabitants. Susan films and photographs the installations.
Peter Ward adds a further layer of photography interpreting reflections and transparencies.
Rod Ladgrove creates music on guitar which harmoniously integrates washed rock surfaces, sunlight on water and the determined meanderings of a millipede as it conquers a steep rock decent. His sound explorations explain the struggle of a bull ant’s battle with surface tension of the water, and communicate the mysterious questioning in the keen eye of a small lizard. His fluent and erratic fingerstyle guitar both reflects and emphasises the natural beauty of this waterfall landscape, at the same time as responding sensitively to the lightness of the textile land sculptures.
In the ancestral lands of the Taungaurong people, Gooram Gooram Gong is a realm of tumbling water and deep rock pools which have been sculpted and inscribed over a myriad of shifting seasons by natural and man made force. The Edge Contemporary Art Collective pays respect.
