Consilience: as the world turns, 2013/4, 07:49 minute continuous loop, stereo sound
HD time lapse video still, Ed of 3 + AP
Consilience: as the world turns documents a continuous nightlong performance on an inland salt lake in Australia.The soundtrack mixes onsite sound with NASA recordings from the Voyager 1 mission to Saturn. The word consilience means the agreement between the approaches to a topic of different academic subjects, especially science and the humanities.
"Consilience ensures that even the casual eye catches a glimpse of an astounding and quite surreal space and time, an arresting sense of our connection with the wider universe.... Significantly, this time- lapse as revealed is relatively slow to what one usually envisages, evoking conceptual overtones of endurance and introspection....The enquiry for poetic understandings and metaphors to connect the body with landscape and the physical universe is a potent and ongoing motivation in Davis’s work, particularly the effects of time on understandings of the body in relation to the material world, its temporality and duration." Dr Victoria Garnons- Williams 2017
Full review here: Review by Dr Victoria Garnons – Williams 2017
Consilience: as the world turns, 2013/4
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Consilience: as the world turns, 2013/4
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Trailer - Consilience: as the world turns, 2013/4
HD Time lapse video, stereo sound
07:49 minute continuous loop
Edition of 3 + AP
Performance/edit: Julia Davis
Camera: Alex Cherney
Sound: Paul Huntingford
Edit: Matt Fezz
A time-lapse video of the Southern Hemisphere with lights from the immediate area reflected onto the LCD screen. This work was shown concurrently with Consilience: As The World Turns, a solo exhibition by Julia Davis at the MAMA Art Gallery and Museum, Albury, Victoria.
Camera: Alex Cherney
