The consequences of the Snowy Hydro Electric Scheme can be seen in Orbost. So what if we were to make music out of the electro magnetic frequencies emitted from this electricity?  And what if we danced to it?

Working with Dancer Leeke Griffin,  We made a live video where I played the Electro Magnetic Frequencies from her Laptop and mobile phone while she improvised dance 

Peter Fraser and I headed out to the bean barn that we wanted to work in. 

Peter inhabited and I photographed whilst the three story barn gently swayes as we walked through the top 2 floors. 

My favourite moment was Peter saying "Vic can you pour this bucket of nails on my face".

Today we visit sites where Vic Forest have logged and still logged. I can't even really share the wealth of horrific information information that we found on this trip.It's probably best to visit the webpage of the Goongerah Environment Centre (Geco) to find out more. 

The one point that kinda encapsulates a lot of it is that we visited a site where Vic Forests had been logging illegally. Apparently they admitted they shouldn't be logging there and halted operations immediately. I later found out that it is illegal to visit...

Day 1

An introductory session in the Orbost Mechanics Institute at 11am talking through the plan for the week, making a schedule. The dancers do some work on the floor together. I go looking through abandoned timber mills searching for log heaps and sawdust heaps. I try to gain entry to a telecommunications tower to record the electro magnetic frequencies. In the evening I give a presentation about my practice to everyone in the empty shop that Andrew Morrish has rented on the main street. 

Day 2

A visit to the  loc...

The drive from Narrandera (NSW) to Orbost (Victoria) is a long and windy 6 hour journey through the Victorian Alps past the skeletal scarred remains of dead trees still standing from a long ago bushfire. A summer drive though the quiet snowfields and the near vacant infrastructure of Mt Hotham Ski Resort and down into the beginnings of logging country. Piles of stacked logs ready for the mill.  

On any long drive from our home, it's not just the change in land type and vegetation that...

DIRT (Dance In Regional disasTer zones) is an ongoing project initiated by dancer Ros Crisp who's practice is interested in "channelling what is happening in the living world through my dance". It commenced in Jan 2017 with a research lab in the East Gippsland area of Orbost Victoria. Ros Crisp invited a team of dancers and artists to the region to work in response to the local logging industry and the immense environmental concerns of the region. The project is ongoing and information about our numerous outcomes to date can be...