Graeme Miller – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:29:05 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/wp-content/uploads/webFiles/cropped-PM_ico_02-32x32.jpg Graeme Miller – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net 32 32 BEHELD http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/traces_gallery/beheld/ Thu, 09 Jul 2015 03:42:55 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=traces_gallery&p=517 Since 2006, UK artist Graeme Miller has been collecting and presenting instances where stowaways have fallen to the ground from the undercarriage of aircraft throughout the world.

Beheld gathers fragile traces of these charged places in glass, sound, and 180° images. For this Melbourne installation, Beheld features an Australian incident amongst other occurrences around the globe. The installation poetically engages with the tragic consequences of desperate acts of attempted informal migration to enchant audiences into a meditation upon a shared human condition – a global connection to human life on earth, relationships between the living and the dead, and how individuals and societies negotiate responsibilities and intractable issues.

Being with Beheld offers a live experience at its most artfully affecting and hauntingly powerful. In a blackened space seemingly opening out to the universe, we are called to reflect on the tension between our bodily encounter with specific places, with desperate acts of migration, and with urgent globally-proportioned questions of human rights and ethical action.

Beheld was first created at Dilston Grove, London, and has since been exhibited across Europe, adding further instances of falling to the ground in the places in which it is shown. This is its first presentation in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Beheld gathers fragile traces of these charged places in glass, sound, and 180° images. For this Melbourne installation, Beheld features an Australian incident amongst other occurrences around the globe. The installation poetically engages with the tragic consequences of desperate acts of attempted informal migration to enchant audiences into a meditation upon a shared human condition – a global connection to human life on earth, relationships between the living and the dead, and how individuals and societies negotiate responsibilities and intractable issues.

Being with Beheld offers a live experience at its most artfully affecting and hauntingly powerful. In a blackened space seemingly opening out to the universe, we are called to reflect on the tension between our bodily encounter with specific places, with desperate acts of migration, and with urgent globally-proportioned questions of human rights and ethical action.

Beheld was first created at Dilston Grove, London, and has since been exhibited across Europe, adding further instances of falling to the ground in the places in which it is shown. This is its first presentation in the Southern Hemisphere.

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