HDV DVD loop 14:30min, stereo sound Artwork commissioned as part of the Port Arthur Project, Ten Days on the Island 2007
A week in June in a space of 5 minutes is a conceptual piece, deriving from a simple mathematical formula Jesper Norda created about pure sound and its concept of time in relation to physical facts. Norda states, time kills us. This fragility of existence is carried through with Butterfly,...
Black Wind includes archival footage of the Maralinga atomic tests carried out by the British in South Australia in the 1950's and 60's. The dispossession of thousands of Maralinga,Pitjantjatjara and Kokatha people, and the environmental devastation wrought, are just some of the many of ongoing ramifications of colonial fallout. ...
16 channel video installation exhibited across three rooms of the Palazzo Giustinian Lolin. Susan Norrie represented Australia at the Venice Biennale. Commissoned by the Australia Council 2006 for the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007
Single channel video work first exhibited at the Yokohama Triennale. Transit continues Norrie's interest in the Asia/Pacific, the 'Ring of Fire' and the awe inspired by the immensity of nature and the technology designed to harness it.
