Projects
The Sound of Failure
The Sound of Failure is sound art festival based in Sydney that explores notions of organised and indeterminate music/sound/noise as conceived and experienced in this, our post-digital era. It is both an inclusive and critical exploration of a broad spectrum of audio experience that includes everything from experimental cabaret, to granular synthesis-derived microsound. This year, the Sound of Failure is a multi-sited event centred around the main performance night at the Factory Theatre in Enmore on August 30. Curated by Greg Shapley Please see soundoffailure.com for more details, or factorytheatre.com.au to book online.
Re-enchantment
Re-enchantment is a broadband interactive documentary project exploring why fairy stories continue to enchant, entertain, fascinate and horrify contemporary adult audiences. Re-enchantment offers an extremely immersive experience in which to explore well known fairy tales and their not so well known meanings. By finding symbols found on the forest paths, the user is transported into seven story spaces: Bluebeard, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Red Riding Hood. Each story in its unique way invites you to navigate the historical, social, cultural and psychological layers embedded in the traditional tales, to discover their meaning for adults today and to view the way they are being re-imagined by contemporary artists.
Re-enchantment is a poetic and provocative act of creative interpretation, bringing together digital video, documentary footage, photography, animation, still images and sound. The website will be hosted by ABC On-Line and have cross platform applications including 10 x 3 minute television interstitials.
The project has been initiated by experienced documentary filmmaker Sarah Gibson Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at UTS. Re-enchantment has brought together an extremely dynamic creative team of Sarah Gibson (director) Sue Maslin (producer), Megan Heyward (project consultant), Catherine Gleeson (interactive designer) and Sharon Jakovsky (musician/sound designer). Together they have highly developed skills in documentary filmmaking and new media design. Each member has a reputation for innovation in their field. Together they contribute to a very strong production team for Re-enchantment.
Funded by Film Victoria , ABC and Australian Film Commission.