'A Tremble, A Tug, A Telling' is an immersive installation of sculpture, moving image and sound that explores the complex entwinement between bodily materiality and nonhuman phenomena.
This body of work was generated from a recent lived climatic catastrophe that award winning artist Gail Hocking experienced. The audible sound of the Earths P wave caused intense fear, panic and vulnerability. She struggled to orient herself and experienced disjointed time as the outer nonhuman phenomena had perpetrated her inner world.
P Waves (Primary Waves) are seismic acoustic waves that hit faster than S waves (Secondary Waves), which are ground movement. Extremely low in frequency, not everyone hears or feels them. Certain people’s senses are more conducive, especially those who have experienced a quake before. Like when someone whispers your name, you have become attuned to hear it. P waves echo through bones and rock. They can wake you in fright.
Drawing on the weight of this embodied experience the work explores the struggle to understand changing landscapes. It questions how one moves forward through the realization of the erosion of a future memory. The personal experience of climate trauma and its subsequent impact on the psyche generates a portal for traversing cognitive dissonance and question beyond what we know, to unlearn, re-tune to uncover earth’s hidden resonances and transcend human/nonhuman separation.
This exhibition is supported by Regional Arts and Country Arts South Australia.
Gail Hocking is a New Zealand born artist with a strong connection to the land and natural environments. Her research and artistic output centres on the relationship between human and nature or non-human beings, emphasising environmental concerns through a lens of empathy, intimacy, and vulnerability. She has exhibited widely since 2009 and was the winner of the 2024 Heysen Prize for Landscape and 2022 Breaking Ground Award in South Australia.
The gallery is open 10am to 4pm and the exhibition continues until the 18 October.
This exhibition is supported by Regional Arts and Country Arts South Australia.
Image: Installation view of 'A Tremble, A Tug, A Telling, by Gail Hocking, 2025.
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