http://cicada.tvCicada are an Australian-Icelandic artist collective exploring landscapes – real, sonic and imagined. Manifestations usually take the form of interactive public artworks, site-specific sculpture and audiovisual installations.Cicada have exhibited extensively throughout Australia and a little bit overseas including projects at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the Govett-Brewster, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Installation: single channel high definition video with 5.1 surround soundCommissioned by Rhana Devonport for New Nature, an exhibition at The Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. May-July 2007
Video+ Sound installation (4 channel DVD, seen here as single screen version) The work is experienced as an installation with four-channel projection and surround sound. A study of organic motion, swarming behaviours and sound, Mob creates an abstracted environment populated with individual organisms of motion and sound. Within this environment the audience experiences the unfolding of a textural world, which builds up to the point where individuality is neutered and an abstracted crowd organi...
An excerpt of a live performance at Environ, Melbourne, Australia. The video performance consists of treated live feeds of other performers, seaweed skeletons being moved around on a screen, and camera focus techniques. Performers include James Worthington, Steve Law, Brendan Palmer, and Viktor. http://cicada.tv
Animation and installations 2nd April - 2nd May 2005 Iaska Gallery, Kellerberrin, Western Australia Saltmilk + other wonders was an exhibition of animation and installations resulting from Kirsten's residency at IASKA. http://cicada.tv
Street level interactive installation 20th September to 17th October 2004 Adelaide, Australia Amensal is a public installation work which explores the delicate balancing act that unfolds when nature ventures into the city. It examines our relationship with the natural world, our desire to cultivate, capture, prune, tend, weed and above all dominate natural processes. http://cicada.tv
Experimental Theatre 2002 - 2004 Various locations A new media theatre piece produced by Marguerite Pepper Productions, written by Scott Rankin, performed by Leah Purcell with live video performance by cicada. http://cicada.tv
Guerilla projection / Mobile audio and video 2001 - 2002 Various locations Embedded enlightenment of the mobile variety - The Stealth Mobile rides the streets and lanes of your city, providing bystanders with short and sharp instances of attack and immersion thru use of the unexpected documentary. Walls become screens and the city hears its own story - a highly mobile cinema that projects the unexpected onto unlikely structures, supported by a soundsystem that makes it all clear. http://cicada...
A collaboration between Cicada, B[if]tek and LOOM (Lisa Griffiths and Kirstie McKracken), for Dancetrax #1, performed at the Sydney Opera House in 2002. http://cicada.tv
Audiovisual projection performed onto architecture 6th October, 2002 Newcastle, Australia An evening of experimental AV performance, projection, & audio tiptoe - multiple projections onto dis-used buildings and surfaces with live audio sublime. http://cicada.tv