“Palimpsest”
Kim Kerze and Jim Denley
25 Jan → 25 Jan 2006

Jim Denley and Kim Kerze cojoin the aural and visual in a constant discussion.

Palimpsest is an improvisation for paper, charcoal, wind instruments, found objects and video projection. A synaesthesiac coupling of the sonic and visual properties of gesture – taking the inspiration of the desert landscape as a beginning point – free improvisation as a method for micotonal observation.

Jim Denley: Wind Instruments?
Kim Kerze: Drawing, found objects.

Jim Denley is one of Australia’s leading Free Improvisers. His work in this project is one of intense microtonal observations, and his method involves responding to every aspect of the drawing in process, the marks sound skittering and etching across the surface of the page, from the fingerjoints to the action of the arm, and the sounds that actualize in the enviromental space.

Kim Kerze’s work involves drawing, installation, improvised & found sound, whose staring point for this method of drawing is the landscape of central Australia. In this particular project he is interested in the work as an act of becoming, and the schizm between the act of improvising in the moment and the desire to track the overall composition of the drawing to its endpoint.