Marian Tubbs' beautiful moving artwork is projected in the Lismore Quad each night after dark.
And then plants are confused with stones. Rocks look like brains, stalactites like breasts, veins of iron like tapestries adorned with figures, is a new immersive video work by Marian Tubbs, developed through fieldwork across rainforest fragments (Booyong Nature Reserve, Bundjalung), everglades (Kabi Kabi) and a sandy island (K'Gari).
Field recordings, photography and video are transformed into a high-definition, large-scale animation as an invitation to consider how vision technologies can serve as tools for creative environmental research. The work envisions alternative and co-designed futures by listening to stories of ecological care embedded within these sites before colonisation and revitalised through contemporary collaborations and learning.
About Marian Tubbs
Marian is an artist whose assemblage-focused practice explores her broad research interests in digital and vision technologies, materiality, language and ecologies. She conflates material juxtapositions between body and object, high and low culture, analogue and digital, physical and virtual, natural and artificial, to transform the everyday into a space of interrogation. Often constructed from the physical and digital detritus of contemporary life – from found photos and surveillance footage to scavenged disposable items – her works position objects, images and text in new or unexpected combinations to question traditional notions of value.
Research and development of this work was funded by The Refinery's Noosa Natural Ecologies residency, an initiative delivered by SCCA in partnership with the Creative Ecologies Research Cluster at UniSC and Noosa Council. Supported by Major Partners; Sunshine Coast Council, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. The work has been further developed for the Lismore Quad Projection Series.
