Video still: days like these, Incompatible Elements. Janine Randerson, critical flows: climates & people The work encourages reflection on the impact of cumulative weather events that are difficult to conceptualise as statistical data or scientific warnings.

The cumulative effect of Incompatible Elements is not alarmist, rather human responsibility is implicated in the large-scale geo-physical changes to our world that the artists represent.

Incompatible Elements at Museum of Contemporary Art, Taiwan 2012.Īn artwork like Incompatible Elements is not propaganda or politics, yet the artists are unwilling to leave socio-political questions to designated experts. Their installation Incompatible Elements, focusing on landscapes in crisis due to climate change has been been shown several times in Australia and overseas, most recently at the Maldives Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2013. At Siteworks 2014 she performed live at night to both her own video image and the live drone.Īrticle by Ann Finegan in Runway Australian Experimental Art Magazine, issue #28 September 2015 In response to the persistently intrusive drone, she exhibits a range of different emotions including curiosity, agitation, engagement and resignation. In their recent work Dancing with Drones Starrs & Cmielewski use a drone to record dancer Alison Plevey’s site-responsive performances in different locations at Bundanon. Performance by Josephine Starrs, A Tender hex for the AnthropoceneĢ018 Dark Rooms, VNS matrix mixed media installation, Griffith University Art Museum Brisbane. Josephine starrs, cofounder of VNS Matrix cyberfeminist artist group, performed at Dark Rooms exhibition, where a survey of VNS Matrix works were shown at Griffith University Art Museum Brisbane. Shown at Arts House Melbourne in July 2016 and in the Adelaide Festival 2019 We pay respect to all First Peoples, honouring the ongoing custodianship of the first artists and knowledge holders. We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora nation on whose Country we work. Highly detailed aerial views of Australian landscapes and waterways are dynamically manipulated in ways that reveal their underlying fragility. Their immersive audiovisual installation, and the earth sighed, re-imagines the relationship between nature and culture. They are passionate about presenting the land and oceans as spectacular living organisms and showing the impact of human intervention on fragile environments. Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski are Australian artists whose long term collaboration has produced media art installations situated at the juncture of cinema, information visualisation and sublime landscape.

Zwcad 2008 professional