Artesian
Multi screen video installation
Site-specific desert project 2007
Funded by the Australian Film Commission
Artesian Basin: a geological structural feature in which water is confined under pressure
Artesian Bore: a deep hole drilled to the aquifer of an artesian basin, through which water rises under hydrostatic pressure
This project is an inquiry about the relationships between land/water
and thought/imagination. It worked between two aesthetic and cultural
paradigms: eco-poetics and psycho-geography. Both of these are
significant in terms of the role art can play in creative responses to
climate conditions, to the natural reserves of a country, and upon the
imaginary geographies of the mind. The continually changing, and
unpredictable, events of weather suggest a working method that is
layered and moving. The project as it unfolded over time (June 2003 -
February 2006) was open to situations and events that arose in the
course of travel and contact with each location.