current research -- packing a bag:
featured artworks:
Diagramming the packing process (2015)
Part of the solo exhibition Creativity in-transit, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy, AU, 4-21 Feb.
Exhibited at Copenhagen Business School, for the "Post disciplinary Tourism Studies Conference", June 2015.
Visitors to the gallery were invited to pack a bag with assorted objects on the floor of the gallery, drawing the arrangement of objects within the bag on paper and plastic sheets provided. The drawings were hung on the walls, layering over each other to create a diagram of documentation of the packing process.
Exhibition at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, June 2015
Now published in the article: "Diagramming: A creative methodology for tourist studies" (2016) in Tourist Studies https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797616680852
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Instructional diagrams (2014 - present)
Instructional diagrams is an ongoing body of work that takes inspiration from emergency exit diagrams and aircraft safety cards, and other instructional visuals that are frequently encountered during transit.
Excerpts of the series have recently been published in my article "The Aesthetics of Aircraft Safety Cards: Spatial Negotiations and Affective Mobilities in Diagrammatic Instructions" in Mobilities (online first article, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2015.1086101 (opens in a new window)
The "Aircraft diagrams" series use actual representations of images found in aircraft safety cards on aeroplanes:
which use actual representations of images found in aircraft safety cards:
The Aircraft diagrams were exhibited in Emergency Diagrams at Rubicon ARI, Melbourne, AU, July 27 - August 13.
A3 laminated cards were pinned to the walls, and two free-standing perspex frames were situated in the gallery space.
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environment-movement (2015)
Net-artwork. Available at: http://www.creativityintransit.com/enviro-move/
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Above: Screenshot from environment-movement
environment-movement uses photographs taken while I was travelling with/in Iceland and Nepal, as part of my PhD fieldwork in 2012-2013. The photographs -- either time-lapse series, panoramic, stitches, or fleeting observational records -- attempt to give an impression of the immersive environmental experiences that tourists have within these destinations.
Above: Screenshot from environment-movement
At the same time, the environmental immersions contrast to the minuscule experiences of movements that we undertake while travelling, in this instance, the process of packing a bag.
This net-artwork teases out the movements during transit that are both subtle and immersive. Each section contemplates movements that are in-between immersive, enveloping environmental transitions, and the subtle, micro, everyday process of packing.
This was shown as an interactive projection at the Nordic Geographer's Meeting in June 2015 in Tallinn, Estonia.
And was projected to accompany the conference presentation: "environment-movement: a transversal exploration of travel as relational movements with/in immersive environments" at the New Materialisms Conference in September 2015 in Melbourne, Australia.Click here to return to top of "Featured Artworks"