Kassandra Bossell
Mother Trees are the biggest trees in the forest that connect to other trees through an intricate web of mycorrhizal fungi. These fungal threads called mycelium form a nutrient highway for carbon, water, nutrients, alarm signals and hormones, sustaining the whole forest and its extensive networked ecosystems.
Trevor Brown has designed and created a multichannel transduction system turning the sculpture into a resonating speaker. Field recordings and music have been composed in response to the sculpture, featuring tree-based instruments. Wooden flute and bass clarinet played by Trevor Brown. Yidaki played by Blak Douglas.
‘Within a Yolŋu Indigenous ontology, animals, rocks, winds, tides, emotions, spirits, songs and humans speak. They all have language and knowledge and Law. They all send messages; communicate with each other. Country is the Aboriginal English word which encompasses this vibrant and sentient understanding of space/place which becomes bounded through its interconnectivity. Country and everything it encompasses is an active participant in the world, shaping and creating it. It is far from a passive backdrop to human experience, a scene in which humans live their lives…’ (Working with and learning from Country: decentring human authority; Cultural Geographies 2015, Vol. 22(2) 269–283.)
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