“TERRA: Memory & Soil”
Victoria Pham and Joel Spring
3 Sept → 16 Oct 2022
TERRA: Mono-Poly, 13 Oct, 8 – 10 am
TERRA: Memory & Soil, is an immersive installation project combining sound, biological-sculpture, architecture and projection.
A collaboration between artists Victoria Pham and Joel Sherwood Spring bring critical interdisciplinary positions within their respective disciplines of evolutionary biology and architecture, bringing vastly different insights into notions of the built environment, history and legacies of colonialism.
The artists seek to interrogate how we remember our past landscapes by transforming gallery spaces into immersive gardens. Their mission is to place indigenous knowledge and diasporic narratives in a central position for knowledge production, cultural exchange and story-telling.
Watch an interview with the artists on OFFSITE.
she lies dormant,
awaiting the curious ear,
that listens forwards and back,
along each curling root.
shrouded by silken soil,
woven by the hand of memory,
you will find her,
in ghostly ossification.
— Victoria Pham
TERRA: Memory & Soil is a co-commission with Centre for Projection Art and Liquid Architecture. The project is supported by Arts Council England through their Developing Your Creative Practice fund.
Victoria Pham is an Australian installation artist, composer, archaeologist and evolutionary biologist. She is a PhD Candidate in Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, holding the Cambridge Trust’s International Scholarship. As a composer she has studied with Carl Vine, Richard Gill, Liza Lim and Thierry Escaich. She is represented by the Australian Music Centre as an Associate Artist.
Joel Spring is a Wiradjuri man raised between Redfern and Alice Springs who works across research, activism, architecture, installation and speculative projects. At present, his work focuses on the contested narratives of Sydney’s and Australia’s urban culture and indigenous history in the face of ongoing colonisation.