Description
Air to Atmosphere was commissioned for the Castlemaine Art Museum in 2023. It includes a video installation and photographic portraits of people from the LGBTQIA+ community in Dja Dja Wurrung Country in central regional Victoria. In the video participants go about their everyday lives, talk to camera, and perform choreographed movements devised by Jo Lloyd to a song written by local music collective &so, shot on the streets of Castlemaine. During the exhibition there was also be a series of live performances by the participants in the gallery.
Through photography, moving image, song, poetry, choreographed movement, interviews and performance Air to Atmosphere shows that identity, experience and community are always multi-faceted and shifting. The microsite book is not just an accompaniment to the exhibition, but a standalone experience and archive that provides a range of perspectives about how it feels to be who we are in the place we live.