The Project

[Image by Panda, Bridgetown WA during Camera-Body-Place, July 2009]
SandSkin | BloodWater is a site based arts project focusing on dance and media, in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, starting in July 2011. An aim is to identify prospective relationships with local people living in the region, in order to share experience. This project is presented as a residential intensive. It forms part of a much larger body of work developing an open source pool of knowledge into living with extreme change. The focus is oinclusive of weather events, climactic conditioning, and micro/macro environmental impact, by investigating the body’s relation to place, and how our identity is contingent with those places that we inhabit, through which our livelihood is dependent.
Ideally an artist book is produced as part of this stage, combining the Carnarvon experiences this coming July with collected stories and artist accounts /interpretations from an earlier project in Bridgetown (Camera-Body-Place) in the inland region of the south-west of WA, following the fires of January 2009.
Carnarvon, from where this project is based, has recetly experienced a series of floods and wild weather including cyclones that has rocked the region. It is the intention of the project to address the needs of the local plantation farmers and land owners along the Gascoyne River by firstly engaging in conversation to establish in what way the artists can be of service to the community.
The project also seeks to engage the artists in live research processes interpreting the experiences of the land and its local people.
SandSkin | BloodWater engages 12 artists from UK and around Australia that include performers from different fields, photographers, a visual construction artist / illustrator, and a composer/poet. It is also the intention of the project to gather interest with local artists, scientists and/or land management professionals.