Tension Sets, 2013

Tension Sets, is a 6-channel video and sound work that uses the sound of the amplified voice in performance, as both a literal (technical) and speculative force of change within the videos. The documentation of the performance is treated as separate to the event itself and taken up as a space in which to speculate about the capacity of the voice to effect, move or engage with its surrounding environment through visual and digital form.

Created for Primavera: Young Australian Artists 2013, curated by Robert Cook at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Location videography: Nick Garner
Video and sound edit: Kusum Normoyle
Installation images: Alex Davies
Exhibition history: Primavera: Young Australian Artists 2013, MCA Sydney,
Sound Full: Sound in Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art, City Gallery Wellington.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

“In the pre-scientific conception of the body of the late classical and medieval periods, the body is seen as both open to and in complex interchange with manifold external influences, agencies, and energies, natural, divine, and demonic.”

Tension Sets, 2013