More Than
Centre for Projection Art 
2024 Residency Outcomes

1 – 31 October, 6.00pm daily
Bunjil Place Outdoor Screen

_{Header image: Un-Calculated Studios, still from Cosmic Signals, 2024}
 

More Than
Just how connected are we to the non-human?   The Centre for Projection Art presents More Than, a series of digital artworks that encourage a deeper appreciation for our diverse and interconnected world. These works reimagine our complex and interconnected relationships with non-human ecologies and are the outcome of nine new works developed through the Centre’s 2024 artist in residence program. 

Amy Manson explores hyperreal sci-fi worlds, Emma Pattenden blends creativity and architectural expertise to craft contemplative art.  Harrison Hall’s work situates performance and dance in experiential art environments. Jack Lee explores the climate crisis through the lens of gender and diversity while Jenn Tran’s project does it through digitally constructed kites as a communicator for climate activism and ecological destiny. Nahbananas (Janis Nah) creates collages and soft sculptures to explore our interconnection and Rali Beynon’s work is interested in storytelling, hybrid figures and mythologies. Sophia Flo Dacy-Cole introduces soil personhoods and the artist duo Un_Calculated (aka Rewa Wright & Simon Howden) reveals the hidden bio-electrical processes of plants. 
Produced by Yandell Walton and presented on the Bunjil Place Outdoor Screen over the month of October.
For more information visit www.centreforprojectionart.com.au/more-than 

Centre For Projection Art
2024 Residency Artists
 

_{Amy Manson, still from Flower as Data, as Memory, 2024}

Amy Manson
Amy Manson explores hyperreal sci-fi worlds with an emphasis on the existential, leaning into the intersection of art and science. She is exploring what it might be like to perceive through non-human senses and how this might link to the augmentation of human perception by technology.

_{Emma Pattenden, still from Waterways, 2024}

Emma Pattenden
Emma Pattenden blends artistic creativity and architectural expertise to craft intricate, contemplative art that explores the dimensions of space, time, and the landscape. Emma’s work centres on memory and the embodied experience, encouraging viewers to reflect on their own connections to nature, prompting introspection and contemplation.

_{Harrison Hall, still from RXD, 2024}

Harrison Hall
Harrison Hall’s work situates contemporary performance and dance in experiential art environments. His recent works traverse states of flux within digital and live worlds, working to increase the embodied experience in mixed digital and live performance contexts.

_{Jack Lee, still from How Far the Light Reaches, 2024}

Jack Lee
Jack Lee is a Chinese Malaysian artist exploring preconceived social norms and the construction of ‘in-between’ cultures. Lee's residency project explores the impacts of climate crisis through the lens of gender and diversity, highlighting the role of animal gender in ecology.

_{Jenn Tran, still from A Kite Poem, 2024}

Jenn Tran
Jenn Tran is a Vietnamese-Australian artist practising in a formative nexus of experimental animation and cine-essay, intertwining alternative dialogues of care through animated realms and reflexive narratives. Her residency project will explore digitally constructed kites as a communicator for climate activism and ecological destiny.

 

_{Nahbananas, still from Noitsuahxe, 2024}

Nahbananas (Janis Nah)
Nahbananas (aka Janis Nah) creates collages and soft sculptures to explore the interconnections of our surroundings. Her work examines daily habits, movements, and contemplation through traditional craftsmanship, experimental techniques, and carefully sourced materials, emphasizing environmental impact and connection to our surroundings.

_{Rali Beyon, still from Obsequies, 2024}

Rali Beynon
Rali Beynon is inspired by diverse cultural background, including Afro-Caribbean, First Nations Pima-Mexican, Cantonese-Malaysian, Celtic and Nordic ancestries, Rali’s work is interested in storytelling, hybrid figures and mythologies, to explore social and ecological concerns.

_{Sophia Dacy-Cole, still from Petri, 2024}

Sophia Flo Dacy-Cole
Sophia Flo Dacy-Cole bridges the disciplines of art, somatics and ecology, with a focus on human-soil communion. She introduces participants to soil personhoods using the intimate scientific techniques of: soil microscopy, soil bioacoustics, and field sampling. Through soil encounters, she explores the political and personal effect of deeply encountering the ecological other as an equally important and possibly dangerous personhood.

_{Un_Calculated Studio, still from Cosmic Signals, 2024}

Un_Calculated (aka Rewa Wright & Simon Howden)
The artist duo Un_Calculated (aka Rewa Wright & Simon Howden) explore speculative futures where plant signals, human music, computational data collide, in a sophisticated audio-visual experience. When combined with a posthuman lens to art and science, our hope is that through this practice, people will feel a little closer to the hidden bio-electrical processes of plants, and consider plants not as a resource for extraction, but as a 'companion species' (Donna Haraway) in a sustainable ecology.