Between the Cracks: Unleashing the Transformative Power of the Dirty Green City is a live multimedia screening/performance that engages with its themes through queer screen production practices. In this live exploration, Queer Screen Production Practices in Australia (QSPPA) challenge conventional notions of urban greening.<p></p>
NTRO Output Type
- Live Performance of Creative Work
NTRO Output Category
- Live Performance of Creative Work : Other
Place
Melbourne, AustraliaVenue
Wild Hope: Conversations for a Planetary Commons, RMIT Design Hub GalleryNTRO Publisher
Now or Never festival, City of MelbourneStart Date
2023-08-19End Date
2023-08-19Medium
live audio visual performanceResearch Statement
This work of exhibition contributes to the fields of screen production research (Kerrigan et al) & urban studies (Steele et al). ‘Queer screen production ‘is a methodology proposed by the research team in previous works that supposes screen production produces knowledges, which might then be applied in response to challenges and opportunities of marginalisation and queer kinship (Taylor et al. 2023). In this work we extend the reach to queer ecologies to ask How do we queer the city? What do notions of the ‘dirty green city’(Steele, Davison & Reed 2020) look like when informed by queer screen production practices?
Between the Cracks is a live multimedia screening/performance that engages with its themes through queer screen production practices. Using audio-visual materials from a continually developing archive and live screenwriting, we explore sustainable practices and interspecies relations in and around queer screen production. Through simultaneous projections of intermingling images and feeds, blending new and archived vernacular images, we place renewed focus on our relationships with the critters between the cracks. Combining filmmaking, mobile media, documentary and screenwriting we examine the subversive relationships that emerge between beings and materials.
Between the Cracks was programmed for Wild Hope at RMIT’s Design Hub Gallery following a competitive selection process by the curatorial team of professors. It was then selected to be featured in City of Melbourne’s Now or Never Festival which brings together local and international artists, creatives and thinkers in an immersive large scale festival for the city of Melbourne, celebrating the intersection of art, sound, ideas and technology. In 2023 the 17-day city wide festival attracted over 150,000 attendees.Size or Duration of Work
1 hourAffiliation
Angie Black, University of Melbourne
