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, SUFFICIENTLY BREATHLESS creates haunted presence through captured human action. Responding to narrative and ghosts of human form, Sufficiently Breathless creates and captures actions and performances in situ during the lead up to the installation and then reinserts them into the space in the form of binaural sound and site-aligned projection. Using locally derived narrative, this temporal layering explores how spirits theoretically inhabit multiple temporal fields and examines how ghosts are thought to disturb electrical currents and inhabit machines.
The visitor is caught between the footsteps, stories, and movements conjured and the apparent reality of the abandoned room which they see. Through creating perceptual tension, the work explores a "multiplicity in truth," examining how ghosts—while not scientifically "proven"—can elicit genuine physiological responses that blur the line between fact and fiction. It demonstrates that imagination can be as powerful as reality.
THE GHOST PROJECT is a series which, like many of Anna Tregloan's projects, is consciously environmentally responsible in methodology and outcome. By approaching the project as a suite where each stage of the development gives tangible results and where parts are continually reused and re-contextualised as well as sourcing locally and second hand and gifting locally at conclusion THE GHOST PROJECT is part of a developing oeuvre of sustainable practice.
Works from the series have been presented at:-
Sufficiently Breathless #2
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul. Goyang Studio.
Performer: Kim Dee Ha
August 2014
(1st set of images)
Sufficiently Breathless #3
Greenaway Lane, The Rocks
for the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
Performer:Amber McMahon
December 2014
(2nd set of images)
Sufficiently Breathless #4
Carriageworks
For the Australian Performing Arts Conference.
Performer:Luke Mullins
September, 2015
Sufficiently Breathless #6
The Substation, Melbourne.
Performer: Natasha Herbert
August, 2016
(3rd set of images)
(Image credit #3 Amada Hitten)
Sufficiently Breathless #7
AsiaTOPA, Melbourne
Performer, Emily Ah Yick.
Photos, Amanda Carr.
February, 2017
(4th set of images)
Sufficiently Breathless #8
The Old Holding Cells behind MAMA, Albury.
Performer, Kyle Walsmley.
August, 2017.
AWARDS:
SUFFICIENTLY BREATHLESS #7 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.
Scenography, costume and other works :-
