We are here and we are everywhere at once (WAHAWAEWAO)
Jennifer Roche, Carol Brown, Ruth Gibson, Bruno Martelli, Russell Scoones, Grant McLay · QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) · 2017
The research which informed this creative work explores how travelling through virtual environments can ‘make strange’ our engagement with the real. It questions how awareness of embodied presence, which is augmented and altered through its intermingling with digital technologies and apparatus might inform how we engage with the natural world. The piece emerged from the research project Kinesthetic Navigations/Kinesthetic Stories instigated by researchers Carol Brown and Ruth Gibson. The creative work was a moving image installation at Pah Homestead Gallery in Auckland. WAHAWAEWAO was created by Ruth Gibson, Carol Brown, Bruno Martelli and Russell Scoones with performer/collaborators Jenny Roche, Grant McLay and Cassidy Scoones. An exhibition booklet with essays by Brown, Roche and Gibson accompanies this submission.