Crows vying to roost on St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Ireland ‘recompose’ the Irish/Australian ballad ‘The Wild Colonial Boy’ in bells/organ/choir, with each point of the cross made active to their touch. If the crows were to cooperate and sit on each point for the duration of the tune, the bushranger Jack Doolan would be shot in the face. Thus the cathedral becomes […]
Author: allan
The Patriots (Waltzing Matilda) (2007)
A group of swimmers form a small temporary community. While waves play the swimmers as notes, this group calls to mind groups working on the fringes of Australian territorial control, resisting the waves of people and influence from abroad. […]
You (2005)
This footage was captured on the main Sydney-Perth highway, with a tripod sitting on the white line about 200 km from the mining town of Broken Hill. My father was terminally ill at the time, and being so far from a large airport, in a vast plain with no mobile phone coverage, caused me great anxiety. Shortly after I returned to Sydney my father died. […] The image comes in waves of absence and presence […] The air is thick and hot, too hot to take wing […]
Hours Remaining in the Life of Allan Giddy (1994)
Hours Remaining in the Life of Allan Giddy is a solar-powered, digital, backwards-counting machine. I calculated how many hours I would have left to live, based on the average life span of a New Zealand male born in the 1960s, then programmed this information into my small machine and set it running. I took care… Continue reading Hours Remaining in the Life of Allan Giddy (1994)