Encounter an atmospheric soundscape of Bundanon field recordings and live performances in the Art Museum.
Surrounded by Arthur Boyd’s Shoalhaven River paintings, artists Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier create an atmospheric soundscape, activated by distorted guitar, vocals and amplified tape players.
While in residence at Bundanon, artists Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier walked the sonic landscape and amassed a library of cassette tapes filled with nature recordings and experimental sounds. In a gesture mirroring the reflective quality of Boyd’s paintings, they return to Bundanon with their amplified tape players and a live performance in the Art Museum.
Field recordings of morning birds at dawn. At night, the calls from the dark of chirping frogs. Recording the distant wind across the hill; the approaching storm; cracking wet branches whipped by rain; a falling tree, heavy and soaked.” – Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier
About the artists
Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier are an artist love team based in Sydney. They share a conceptual practice and make artwork using textiles and sound. They create audio-visual worlds for intimate experiences, wielding personal emotions of love and friendship, sincerity, and grief.
Wilder Times
Wilder Times sees the return of a series of Shoalhaven landscape paintings by Arthur Boyd to Bundanon for the first time since their creation in 1984 as a commission for the new Arts Centre Melbourne.
The exhibition also brings together over 60 works by seminal Australian artists from the same time Boyd created this momentous body of work. The exhibition provides a window into a period of cultural dynamism in Australia, when ideas of landscape, land ownership and environmental protection were actively interrogated.
