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.