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Pitched 2026 Single channel video projection, no sound, dur 4.19 min, solar lights, tent, wood. 

Statement 

An unlikely place to set up camp for a few nights my installation features a tent pitched high on the rooftop of a building. Referencing the multiple temporary camps set up in this area during the 1850’s goldrush, the tent situated high above the ground echoes the unreachable heights of hope and ambition that drove small-scale miners and prospectors, many of whom ended in bankruptcy, crippling debt, and destitution. The tent sits on the former Oriental Bank Building, which turned extracted gold into capital before closing hurriedly in 1884 during the financial crisis. Inside the tent a video will be projected onto the walls and is best visible at night and begins with moons of rock seen through a microscope falling like gold dust and the handling of my father’s rock archives , and my grandmother sitting on a rock. The video mobilises matriarchal familial history as a counter-archive, re-situating the history of mining within intergenerational memory and exposing its entanglements with extraction, inheritance, and ecological consequence. 

Outside the tent a waning gibbous moon painted on a circular panel and suspended on a stick is the predicted moon phase for this year’s Beechworth Biennale. The possible vision of a double moon is a cosmologically expansive concept to me. Not quite full and not quite new, this point of the moon cycle is considered by some to be an auspicious time for reflection and forgiveness. I want to construct new ways of experiencing the world where human and more-than-human agencies are co-present and co-constitutive, circling and swirling between the vastness of time, location and matter. 

Participating Artists

Frederick Beel/Zanny Begg/Penny Coss/Joe Wilson & Chenelle Collier/Matthew McKenzie, Richard Iskov & Liam Cuffley / Fabian Brown/ Japaljarri, Rupert Betheras, Joseph Williams Jungarayi, / Levi McLean & Tina Douglas/ Studio Drez/ Deborah Halpern/Locust Jones / Derek Kreckler / Ikuntji Artists / Katheryn Leopoldseder / Susie Losch / Victoria Cooper, Doug Spowart, Tegan Nash Ollett & Bree Marchbank/ Kellie O’Dempsey / Louise Paramor / Mike Parr / Drew Pettifer / Anthony Sawrey / Jen Valender