Artists statement

"Collider is a video site response work that investigates the physical and conceptual notions of Bundoora
Homestead Art Centre and surrounding Bundoora Parklands as matter, memory and phenomena. The
project spanned three years of the artist’s life, visiting as both a local resident and an exhibiting artist at
the Centre, involving a long-term process of “mapping” the site.
The work looks to make visible, the hidden frequencies embedded within the buildings and parklands,
including the social and geological. A complicated space, once a volcanic vent (Mt Cooper, 9.5 million
years ago), home to over 60,000 years of continuous First Australian culture, long term indigenous and
(recent) settler land use, a place of respite for returned soldiers; visitors today generally experience the
site as a place of leisure. Collider aims to disrupt this view, asking the viewer to look below the surface
and experience a deeper sense of place.
Using video sequences, this work places the Bundoora Homestead site within a shifting scale of
material territories, molecular energies and entropic disorder. Collider includes both abstracted and live
video sequences shot throughout the Homestead grounds and across the Bundoora Park and Mt
Cooper area that appear to be capturing unknown, signalling phenomena.
Time flowing and dissolving across the landscape."