Bundanon

Joshua (he/they) is a queer, energetically colourful, award winning multidisciplinary artist originally from The Blue Mountains, NSW. He takes listeners on a genre-bending dreamy journey exploring themes of identity, masculinity and sexuality in the 2020s. His tracks span the spectrum of sound design, art pop, indie pop, new wave punk and techno.

Leith (they/them) uses drawing to explore common worlds (which are concerned with relations with the more-than-human world) and queer ecologies (which aim to disrupt and diversify heterosexist narratives about the natural world and its inhabitants).

Together, their work spans creative thinking and making processes that include themes of transformation, shifting gender identity and sexuality, explorations of inner and outer landscapes and worlds, and the rejection of binary subject matter and genres.

In residence at Bundanon

In this first time collaboration, Leith and Joshua will create a compositional methodology through which the Country at Bundanon documents itself. A range of low-impact custom built sensors will be installed around the property. The data collected from these sensors will inform a series of experimental sonic and visual studies which reflect the artists’ everyday conversations between (and relational engagements with) the Bundanon landscape, their chosen mediums, and each other. A multimodal installation created from these studies will allow audiences to hear and see Dharawal/Dhurga Country move and breathe as a holistic and complex network of living entities.