Stirringstill video projection and sound installation, animal stall, Royal showgrounds, Adelaide, 
and Art Gallery of South Australia Project Room 2009

First and foremost it’s in the dance. As a dancer to phrase movements, is to be present in each somatic stall -to make space and music an immersive and immanent plane of action-a timing of moments recalled and lived. Like Samuel Beckett whose novella ‘stirrings till’ acquaints one with contradictions-this video stirringstill is an endless cycle of beginnings-an operational text for nothing. The space for the event makes action contingent in the showground a sawdust bed for prize show animals becalms and muffles all footsteps- breathlessly settled and combed to ready-perfection. The sound refrain calls you to walk the distance-to advance calmly to the projected figure installed, forestalled in the dust.