Jacqui O’Reilly
Return from Erasure: place, identity and intercultural relations in media arts practice
Symposium presentation 11.30am Wed Dec 7
This electro-acoustic sound & moving image performance is an immersive and reflexive time based experience and connects to the work of the same name exhibited at the Crevice Communities Exhibition 2021. Drawing on deep listening as research, the work includes audio artefacts from past online zoom meetings as sampled compositional material. During these zoom meetings, the artist engaged in kōrero (discussion) to build relationships with Māori and learn about tangata whenua (people of the land) in the Māori sense. The resulting composition speculates on how we might listen to the sound of decolonisation as a synthesis of relationality. Engagement with the work brings emphasis to the present moment as the signal for continuous movement beyond ongoing processes of systemic colonisation.
Jacqui O’Reilly is a Pākehā artist, researcher and musician from Aotearoa New Zealand, now based in Sydney on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. Her practice explores relations between people, place, media and perception and she is interested in the creative act as acknowledgement of past happenings and as reparative futuring.