LEGS LIKE PISTONS
2020
Binaural audio work.
18’51.
Full audio work, documentation.
Created for ‘Monument to Now: MoreArt 2020.’ Curated by Emily Cormack.
2020 was a time of big feelings. Nostalgia and future fear sat together in a state of wobbly tension. The things we knew were falling away. Even the act of leaving home for a daily walk became loaded with strange new meaning. In disaster, we found both anxiety and resilience. We were learning to adapt.
Legs like pistons is an immersive binaural audio walk from Merlynston Station to Batman Station, set in an auditory world that blurs the past, the present, and a speculative future after catastrophe. It creates an auditory space where the lines between truth and fiction blur, where present and future collide and the human body becomes a force for change, movement and power. It lays new meaning over a familiar urban landscape, and imagines what might be to come.
Additional recording assistance by Andrea Meacham. Additional vocal performances by: Mike Greaney, Rachel Ramshall-Smith and Christine Robinson.