This four-episode audiovisual project re-edits material from the ACMI collection. A playful reimagining of the archives, driven by audiovisual juxtaposition (in tone), alongside meticulous microstructural synchresis. The project uses Chion’s principle of an empathetic sound to generate multisensory works which overlay conflicting emotional states, deliberately folding the diagonal axis of Russell’s Circumplex Model of Emotion (1980) in itself.

Ultimately, the works use Russell’s model to speak to the objectivity of arousal vs the subjectivity of valence, a psychological research agenda that sits behind the public presentation of the works as “poetic scholarship” (Huron)