Artist Talk and Opening 5:00 – 7:00pm Friday 19 September
Join us for an interesting and insightful talk with award winning video, sculpture and installation artist Gail Hocking. Gail will tell the story of her experiences during a recent lived climatic catastrophe in which the audible sound of the Earths P wave caused intense fear, panic and vulnerability.
This experience led to the creation of this new body of work 'A Tremble, A Tug, A Telling' – an immersive installation of moving image and sound that explores the complex entwinement between our bodies and nonhuman phenomena.
Drawing on the weight of this embodied experience the work explores the struggle to understand changing landscapes and the personal experience of climate trauma and its impact on the psyche.
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.
This is a free event, all welcome.
This exhibition is supported by Regional Arts and Country Arts South Australia.
Image: Gail Hocking, Through A Looking Glass Darkly, 2024, video still, (3 min 2 sec).
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