LISTENING

Recently landed: Listening

So far, we’ve shared what we are making, and a little of where the individual components have come from, but we’ve not really touched upon what you will hear when you look at the collage, or rather when you walk through it, the forest, in the gallery.

The soundtrack is comprised of audio recordings from different colonies to the Grey-headed flying fox camp on the Birrarung that we know and help care for (as part of Friends of Bats and Bushcare and the soft release program). As the camp along the Birrarung is an urban camp, any recordings from this area tend to feature a great deal of ‘us’ noise. All the human bits. Our traffic roaring, our sirens blaring, our conversations in the daytime as we cycle, run, and walk beneath the canopy of grooming, squabbling, snoozing flying foxes. Our close proximity. Our encroachment. So, for The remaking of things, we have called upon sounds from remote camps like those at Tallowwood Ridge, Dorrigo, NSW. Working with Angus Kemp, sound production, we have a collage of sounds, using various recordings courtesy of Tim Pearson, to create the feeling of twenty-four hours in a Grey-headed flying fox camp comprised into twenty-four minute.

Continuing reading on Marginalia.

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4th of February, 2023

Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, The remaking of things (detail), 2022–2023, especially for Melbourne Now. In the section above you can see a green possum from an earthenware jug (1931–1940), in the collection of the NGV.