18th September – 10th October
Scott Morrison is an Australian video artist currently based in Melbourne. His practice intertwines video installation and intricate sound design to create new ways of viewing both natural and synthetic environments. These rhythmic and undulating audio visual works combine an interest in the aesthetics of rural landscape, with an ability to bend his audience’s perception of density and time. Morrison’s installations transcend the familiar, creating unexpected sensory experiences that re-configure our perspective of environment and place. Maintaining a hybrid of processes including live performance his work is rhythmically captivating. Morrison is interested in how we can look and listen at the moving-image anew by reworking and re-imagining the natural world.
My practice for the most part, looks at the synergistic properties of the seen and heard within the moving image. The capacity for dissection and reassembly of recorded time acts as a vessel for investigations of memory, place and alternate perceptions of the world around us. I’m interested in how we read time and my work small choir encourages the act of looking and listening over and over again through the loop based circular structure of its edit. The piece came from extended location shoots amongst the Penrose State forest near my place birth. Each day I would rise and fall with the setting sun, recording the new light of day and its passing throughout to dusk. The piece attempts to merge and weave these strings of recorded time into an audiovisual tapestry, where the start and the end are of no consequence, the experience of more so.
