WE USED TO BE SOFT FOOTED CREATURES
2023
TURRBAL & YUGGERA COUNTRY
HOUSE CONSPIRACY
KURILPA
HOUSE CONSPIRACY
KURILPA
we used to be soft footed creatures is a site-specific video installation that responds to the urban development forecast for Meanjin through the Temporary Local Planning Instrument (TLPI) for the Kurilpa Precinct. With this increasing vertical expansion, our markers of position and location are replaced by objects and infrastructure to create an undefined field where related-ness and orientation are artificially defined. Our experiences, much like the material landscape, are increasingly fragmented and superficial.
Situated in the House Conspiracy garden space, this work reinstates a digital imitation of the natural horizon among the visual scope framed by the upper lip of the surrounding vertical retaining walls.
The work's uncanny interplay of perspective challenges the construction of the apparent horizon in juxtaposition with the deep horizon as a mechanism for resistance, collective imaginations and stability within the accelerating urban maelstrom. Against this depthless and immaterial horizon, the work speculates on the potential for vernacular architectural practices and community-centred design to lead sustainable and purposeful urban development.
we used to be soft footed creatures was presented as part of a six-week residency at House Conspiracy.
Documentation by Joseph Lynch.
Situated in the House Conspiracy garden space, this work reinstates a digital imitation of the natural horizon among the visual scope framed by the upper lip of the surrounding vertical retaining walls.
The work's uncanny interplay of perspective challenges the construction of the apparent horizon in juxtaposition with the deep horizon as a mechanism for resistance, collective imaginations and stability within the accelerating urban maelstrom. Against this depthless and immaterial horizon, the work speculates on the potential for vernacular architectural practices and community-centred design to lead sustainable and purposeful urban development.
we used to be soft footed creatures was presented as part of a six-week residency at House Conspiracy.
Documentation by Joseph Lynch.
