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Polly Stanton

Thresholds

Polly will present and discuss her audiovisual piece Thresholds with one of her key collaborators, sound designer and mixer Byron Dean.

Thursday September 25, 5:30 for 6pm

Black Box Multichannel AV Space
Room 12.02.103
RMIT City Campus, Naarm/Melbourne

Entry near the RMIT tram stop on the eastern side of Swanston st, at Little Bang Cafe’s location – enter through the glass doors on street level near the ‘Building 10’ sign and head straight down the half set of stairs, the Black Box is straight ahead

Elevator available nearby the cafe entrance for those with accessibility requirements

Thresholds is a moving image performance work that invites audiences into the hidden depths of the historic Mt Lyell copper mine in remote Western lutruwita / Tasmania. Commissioned by The Unconformity and developed over 18 months in collaboration with the Queenstown Community Choir, the work stages an underground performance where human voices resonate alongside geophonic recordings of the mine’s subterranean fields. The resulting interplay of sound and image evokes both the seismic impact of the mine’s closure and the lingering possibility of renewal.

The remote landscapes of Western Tasmania bear the marks of a brutal, extractive past. Primordial glaciated mountain ranges rich in minerals are at once hauntingly beautiful and profoundly scarred. Thresholds draws attention to the ways these extreme and isolated environments have shaped settler experience while exploring the entwined relationships between geology, extraction, and community. Presented as a large-scale, polyphonic, multi-sensory encounter, the work makes tangible these forces and histories by using voice to re-sound the now silent mine.

Listening Practice is a monthly gathering of listeners open to all, where sonic research and practice is shared in a dedicated listening environment, with informal discussion encouraged afterward.

Organised by the DSP research group

Free by RSVP with attendees added to the DSP mailing list