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The Street, an interactive poetic video wall for HEAT: Art and Climate Change, an international exhibition curated by Dr Linda Williams, RMIT University, Australia, held in a central Melbourne Gallery September to October 2008

HEAT: Art and climate Change was a major international exhibition on Art and Climate change curated by Dr Linda Williams, RMIT University, Australia, held in a central Melbourne Gallery September to October 2008. The group exhibition was one of the first to include Australian and international artists working in a diverse range of media to demonstrate how contemporary international art practice is responding to the impacts of climate change. ‘The Street’ is a poetic interactive video wall produced for the exhibition.

The work conceived for the exhibition was based on a three-month residency and Fellowship at La Trobe University, Victoria, in 2006. The thousand images and the various poems created during the residency were brought into a coherent relationship with the problem of land exploitation and drought in South Australia. The interactive piece relates to the blandness of the Melbourne suburbs to still untamed forces of the natural world. The work was based on extensive research and practice in South Australia and on solving difficult sensing and projection problematics to create an interacting video world controlled by audience motion.