Channelling Woodford

This sound work was recorded at Woodford Academy, in the Blue Mountains Australia while sitting in the grounds with eyes closed and allowing words and feelings come to me. Excavating my own memories and allowing free association to lead the voice, the experience of doing this was unexpected. What emerged was a strong visceral spatial experience of the site, where my consciousness was spatially exploring the whole site, moving under the ground and through various rooms. This was accompanied by physical sensations such as hot, cold, wet, pressure, release, angle of trajectory; and emotional feelings such as emptiness, sadness, curiosity, wonderment, certainty, and even anger where I was having ‘arguments’ with myself. This experience was influenced by fragments of stories from the site, and different fictions that emerged from nowhere. Overall it was a visceral, potent, unexpected, fast changing, semi meditational, trance like journey. 

Also known as “Contemplating the Void”, 2017
Originally created for “Explorer’s Narratives of Site” exhibition curated by Beata Geyer and Mahalya Middlemist for MAPBM
at Woodford Academy, Woodford, 2017
Also exhibited in “With Every Breath" exhibition curated by Rilka Oakley at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 2019