SUBLIME VOID
1-31 July 2026
Adelaide Festival Centre
Exploring place and domestic cinema through long durational video art.
A 23 year long project (2002-25) that completed twenty feature-length video artworks comprised of recontextualised vintage 8mm home movies.
The completed project lead to new research about screen places asking how can a topographical analysis of place be situated within the films and their reconstructed other? The research is currently undertaken as a PhD at Central Queensland University.
FILMIC MEMORIALS
SCREENINGS:
Australian Centre of Contemporary Art
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Digital Facade at Federation Square
Da2 Museum Salamanca
National Museum Centre of Art Reina Sofia
Reconfiguring poses of characters from German Black Death plague era paintings through new places and time.
What first began as a single five-minute video filmed in Germany in 2006 become an 18 year project (2006-25) intersecting nine feature length and 43 short form slow films to what we now understand as a metamodern cinema.
Through short and long form artefacts, each film imbues debate about trauma and rethought memory through an epistemological affect of a structure of reason (in metamodernism) from the connections and experiences we forge with the past.
The project was contextualised in my PhD Metamodern Affect, Trauma Memory, and Slow Cinema in The 51 Paintings Suite at Flinders University completed in 2025.
51 PAINTINGS SUITE
SCREENINGS:
XII International Image Festival, Colombia
Digital Facade at Federation Square
VPN, Venice International Film Festival
Adelaide Festival Centre
Museum of Art Almeria
FKI Research Centre for Art Berlin
FILE Festival Sao Paulo
Miden Video Art Festival
A twenty-year project exploring the nine circles of hell in Dante's Inferno.
These works span narrative and non-narrative tropes, addressing aspects of Inferno from the original version of Dante's vision. Works to date include Black Garden, a 90-minute metamodern drama set against the backdrop of a nuclear war.
Dark Garden is an episodic streaming series in the vein of Black Garden comprised of 27 episodes deploying a groundbreaking array of hybrid AI, live action, hand-drawn animation and virtual production techniques.
In addition to these are nine video art installations dissecting Dante's 34 cantos into Cantos I-XXXIV expanded by theoretical discussions among metamodernism and beyond.
The project will be contextualised in the PhD ‘Locating Slow Films in Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell’.
NINE CIRCLES SUITE
SCREENINGS:
Cannes Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
North Bellarine Film Festival
Cinemalab Colombia
Capitol Theatre Melbourne
An ongoing metamodern moving image project exploring Kant and Burke’s notion of the sublime through maritime art.
These works move between single, multi, and site-specific videos that interrogate sublimity influenced by the affectual aesthetics of Turner, Friedrich, and Géricault, to name a few.
Aligned to the residue left by the 51 Paintings Suite, the new series unpacks the sea and its affectual mechanics across metamodernism that aims to advance maritime art beyond the sea into an intersubjective construct through conversations between gallery, museum, and cinema contexts.
The series will be contextualised in the PhD ‘The Sublime Void: recontextualising maritime landscape in contemporary art’.
SUBLIME VOID SUITE
SCREENINGS:
Kingston Arts Centre
Adelaide Festival Centre