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    Installation, audio including field recordings, text, readings, participatory performance, public art, soundwalks
     
    Indicatve Artworks
    Fivex Art Prize (2020-21) Site specific public artwork, Melbourne AU (First Prize Winner)
    OH! AH AH PREE TRRA TRRA (2019) Soundwalk, workshop, participatory performance. Cafe Oto London UK
    Speaking in Tongues (2019) Installation and reading. Texas Tech University US
    The Ambassadors (2019) Installation and performance. Immerse at Ferntree Gully Library Melbourne AU
    Shooting the Breeze (2015) Installation and performance. Melbourne AU
    Reading The Birds (2014) Site specific reading. MoreArt Melbourne AU
    Mid-morning, mild, some clouds (2014) Site specific public artwork. Melbourne AU
     
    Hybrid Writings that sit alongside the artworks
     
    Audio only
    Soundcloud Participatory performances, readings, audio works
    Xeno Canto Field recordings of the birds
     
     
    Years
    2024
   

Wallcreeper (2024)
as part of Deep Speech-Dialogue Inter-Especes
curated by Elena Biserna and LabGamerz and Biennale d’Aix 2024
With Maeve Longvert, Oussama Tabti , Catherine Clover

    2023
    Birds of the Footscray District 15 Nov-Dec 2023
Five Walls Melbourne Australia
A small solo show of photographs based on a bird field guide published in 1939
    Carolee Schneemann’s Cats 8 Nov-2 Dec 2023
with art collective Cats Like Plain Crisps
Blindside Melbourne Australia
A group exhibition celebrating artist and icon Carolee Schneemann
    Larking as part of the TO)pot Radical Walking Festival Ljubljana Slovenia
28 Sep – 1 Oct 2023 Cukrarna and public spaces Cukrarna Gallery Poljanski Nasip 40 Ljubljana, Slovenia
    VIII Miles from Hyde Park Corner
As part of #EnCOUnTERs X #MusicandOtherLivingCreatures
15 and 16 July 2023 West London
A Helen Frosi/Café Oto Off-Site activity
    Art and the City Amman, Jordan
June 11-14, 2023 Columbia Global Center, Amman, Jordan
Artist Keynote Listening, Walking and Languaging in the City: An Incomplete Field Guide to the Voices of the Birds of Amman
     
    2020
    Fivex Art Prize Site specific public artwork - two digital billboards, corner Flinders and Elizabeth Streets, central Melbourne 14 December 2020 to 31 January 2021 (First Prize Winner).
    Monument to Now Moreart 2020 site-specific soundwalk. Curated by Emily Cormack and postponed from April due to the Covid 19 pandemic
    Acts of Air: Reshaping the Urban Sonic Written score. Curated by Lisa Hall as part of Un-earthed:Festival of Listening and Environment CRISAP University of the Arts, London UK, Launch 16 July 2020
    Wild Bird Pod a community project with the City of Maribyrnong, Melbourne AU, July 2020. This project is about our experiences with wild birds during the pandemic lockdown.
    Posthuman PUBLICS curated by Fiona Hillary Project Space RMIT University Melbourne
    Supernaculum curated by Aphrodite Feros-Fooke. Brooklyn Arts Hotel Fitzroy Melbourne more to come
     
    2019
    SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM Soundwalk and participatory performance. Tokyo Japan              
    The Ambassadors Immerse: Art in Unexpected Places Ferntree Gully Outer Melbourne AU
    Guyup-Guyup: Scores for Eight Songbirds as part of Translating Ambiance a research project organised and curated by Jordan Lacey with Philip Samartzis at Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne AU
    OH! AH AH PREE TRRA TRRA Soundwalk, workshop, performance. Cafe Oto London UK
    Score for the Arrival of the Blackbird in South Eastern Australia 1860 (2019) SonicField
    Speaking in Tongues Assembling Animal Communication Texas Tech University US
    Body of Sound Written scores. Curated by Yasmin Heisler, Cordite Poetry Review #89:DOMESTIC
with Alessandro Bosetti, Carolyn Connors, Catherine Clover, Jacob Kirkegaard, Joel Stern, Martina Copley, Ania Walwicz, A J Carruthers
     
    2018
    My Monster: The Human Animal Hybrid exhibition curated by Evelyn Tsitas, RMIT Gallery Melbourne
    We don’t simply cry out. We pronounce. We enunciate Harvestworks New York US
Collaborative performance with Viv Corringham
    Pfeilstorch (2018) as part of Speaking Volumes! Tungebundet! Three location response text works on paper as part of a group exhibition curated by Rikke Hansen and Tanja Nellemann Kaunas Lithuania
    Fielding see Projects for full listing
    Ramblings Desvarios collaborative performance with Viv Corringham Central Booking New York US
    Jardines del Pedregal de San Ángel audio & text in the Ecomusicologia section of
Animalia Vegetalia Mineralia
 Número 10, Ano 5 an online ecological journal edited by Ilda Teresa Castro, Portugal. A bilingual journal, English follows Portuguese Link to full issue here
     
    2017
    Ramblings Performance at Floating Projects Hong Kong
    Ramblings Sound Walk at Floating Projects Hong Kong
    Reading Place Aloud (2017) Finalist in the Melbourne Urban Prize for Sculpture
   

CoExistence (2017) Digital text images as part of a gallery exhibition curated by Julia Schlosser and Alexandra Murphy as part of the conference Living with Animals Eastern Kentucky University US

    In a Manner of Speaking (2017) Participatory performance with the delegates of Performing, Writing an interdisciplinary research symposium at Massey University Wellington New Zealand
     
    2016
   

Human Animal Artist (2016 - 2017) Site specific text work commissioned by Janine Burke for
McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery Langwarrin Victoria Australia

    Poetic Communications with the Internet of Possums (2016)
Collboration with Stephen Barrass for Unteming the Urban ANU Canberra
    Unreliable Encounters in Jurong (2016) Collaborative performance with Peter Knight Oct 2016 as part of Why Listen to Animals: The Abyss of Incomprehension Liquid Architecture, Melbourne Australia
Collaborative performance with Alice Hui-Sheng Chang Dec 2016 Ting Shuo Taiwan
    Sounding Batman Park (2016) Sonic collaboration with Jordan Lacey as part of Test Sites, City of Melbourne
   

Folderol (London Marrakesh Melbourne) (2016) Collaborative performance with Robbie Judkins New River Studios London

    2015
    Eyescore: The Audible Image (2015) Site specific text work in an exhibition curated by Kent Wilson 2015 Melbourne
    Birds of New York (2015) Site specific text works on paper, exhibition curated by Maddy Rosenberg for Old Tech New Tech, 2015 New York
    Shooting the Breeze (2015) Installation (site specific text works) and performance 2015 Melbourne
    2014
    Reading The Birds (2014) Site specific performance as part of MoreArt 2014 Moreland City Council Public Art Show Melbourne
    Perch (2014) Collaborative performance with Vanessa Tomlinson, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang at Blindside Melbourne, curated by Andrew Tetzlaff
    Mid-morning, mild, some clouds (2014)
Site specific public artwork (text work) commissioned by The Substation and Hobsons Bay City Council Melbourne 2014
    2013
    B is for Bird, C is for City (2013)
Collaborative performance with Kate Hunter, Vanessa Chapple and Penny Baron for Liquid Architecture 14: Sonic City Melbourne
    Calls from Blethenal Green (2013)
Residency and collaboration with Johanna Hällsten St John's Church Bethnal Green London
    Field Notes (2013)
Collaborative installation with Clyde McGill Trocadero Art Space Melbourne
    2012
    Looking up, listening for the birds (2012) Photography 3 Abbotsford Convent Melbourne
    The Auspices (2012) Site specific public art installation at Anstey Station (disused customer service booth) Melbourne
    A Filth of Starlings (2012) Site specific public art work (text works) Platform ARI Melbourne
    A Storytelling of Ravens (2012) Printed text work Tierstudien 01 Animalität und Ästhetik Berlin
    Us & Them-Umwelten (2012) Site specific text work Project Space RMIT Melbourne
    2011
    Tell Me Something: A Field Guide to the Voices of an Unkindness of Ravens (2011) Print project
    birdbrain performance (2011) with Kate Hunter, Vanessa Chapple and Penny Baron Screenspace Melbourne
    birdbrain (2011) Installation Emerson Galerie Berlin and Soundfjord London
    Billboard Art Projects (2011) Billboard New Orleans
    2010
    Say Something (2010) Sound Work Death Be Kind Melbourne
    Calling the Birds II (2010) Animation Trocadero Art Space Melbourne
    Pigeon Post (2010) Installation Mailbox 141 Melbourne
    billing and cooing (2010) Billboard Trocadoro ARI Melbourne
    coroocoo (2010) visiting artist and installation NSCAD University Halifax Canada
    billing and cooing (2010) Mail art project Melbourne Australia/Halifax Canada
    2009
    Columba livia (2009) Installation Melbourne
    2008
    (2008) Installation C3 Abbotsford Convent Melbourne
    Thirst (2008) Sonic Collaboration with Dominique Hecq Melbourne
    2007
    Shilihe (2007) Sound Work Beijing
    Greengrocer (2007) Installation Austral Avenue Melbourne
    2006
    Between two and three (2006) Animation
    Untitled [sidings] (2006) Sound Work
    Frieze (2006) Installation Melbourne
    Double Interchange (2006)
Collaboration with Vanessa Tomlinson as part of Double Venturi Melbourne Town Hall Melbounre
   

Perfect Square (2006) Animation

    Six in the evening (2006) Animation Hong Kong
    The wet and the dry (2006) Sound Work Melbourne
     
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