The project exposes the impact of perspective on belief and the potency of imagination.
Reality is slippery and imagination a fearsome thing.
Part installation, part museum, part story exchange, THE GHOST PROJECT embarks on a discussion between audience, communities and artists to unearth ghosts, spirits and hauntings. Although most often presented as an amalgam the project has three distinct methodologies reflected in individual modules.
The module of Smoke and Mirrors is focused on manifesting invisible energies and metaphysical forces and examining energies and forces operating in the metaphysical plane. To conjure these speculations it embraces the photographic and production techniques utilised in the Spiritualist seances, events and photography of one hundred years ago. By being less narratively driven, a continuous speculative present is created.
Smoke and Mirrors #1
Museum of Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Goyang Studios, South Korea.
2014
(1st set of images)
Smoke and Mirrors #2
Siteworks Festival, Bundanon Trust, Shoalhaven, NSW
2016
(2nd set of images)
Smoke and Mirrors #3
The Substation, Newport, VIC
2016
(3rd set of images)
Smoke and Mirrors #4
The Old Holding Cells behind MAMA, Albury.
2017
(4th set of images)
Smoke and Mirrors #5
Shoalhaven Regional Gallery
April 2018
(5th set of images)
AWARDS:
SMOKE AND MIRRORS #1 Shortlisted Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, 2014
SMOKE AND MIRRORS #2 Shortlisted Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, 2017
This project has been supported the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; the NSW Government through Create NSW. Its development was supported by AsiaLink, BigCi and Playking.
