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25/01/12 0 comment/s post a comment
The Way You Move Me
Moora Fine Arts Gallery, 95 Gardiner Street, Moora. Leber and Chesworth's residency is part of the spaced: art out of place program presented by IASKA. spaced: art out of place is an international biennial event featuring commissioned art projects which depict a range of local, social and environmental situations from 16 regional Western Australian communities. In each host community artists ...Read more ►
02/10/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Week 7
Brahmans at the Lovelocks: We visited the Lovelock's farm south-east of Moora where Kathy Lovelock is passing on her cattle skills to young apprentice Cate Roberts. We have encountered quite a number of farms where the women have taken up the job of rearing the cattle or sheep, while the men have found a different line of work outside the farm. Kathy has about a hundred head of Brahman cattle in ...Read more ►
25/09/11 1 comment/s post a comment
Week 6
The Bubble: This week Vicki Martin and her son Serge allowed us to film them moving large herds of sheep about their property in Watheroo. Most people who work with animals have a very specific understanding of the best way to manage herds, utilising the internal forces and natural dynamics of the herd. Vicki described the challenge of moving her herd of sheep as being akin to moving a large ...Read more ►
11/09/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Week 5
Change of Direction: We have returned from last week's trip feeling greatly refreshed. However we are now questioning whether we should pursue our 'All Souls' project as there are many permissions needed in order to film certain graves and we can't always be certain that we have secured the correct permissions from family and community members. We knew that there might be some issues in getting ...Read more ►
04/09/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Week 4
Amazing Ladies: This week we were back at the Moora cemetery bright and early to film local women, Jean, Betsy and Doris, who voluntarily and very gladly come every week to spend a lengthy morning tidying up the graves. The soil around Moora is very sandy and gets blown about and washed away by the wind and rain. Many of the graves are made very simply out of mounded sand. These bare mounds are ...Read more ►
28/08/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Week 3
Graveside: We began filming various families assembled around their family plots at the cemetery. These families had responded to an open call to be involved in the project, and we encountered many different versions of what constitutes a family. The participants - young and old - were very happy to assemble and stand vigil at the graves of their ancestors. We found ways to film them in both ...Read more ►
21/08/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Week 2
Rodeo: The rodeo came to the nearby town of Mogumber - population: not many - and we videotaped the recurring staccato bursts of activity. These included bareback riding, saddle bronc and roping cattle with most challenges lasting a brief 8 seconds or so of frenetic activity.SheepWe videotaped the activity of two local farmers, Steve and Liz Slater working in the sorting yards with sheep. We ...Read more ►
14/08/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Week 1
The Moora Cemetery: The Moora Cemetery connects far more hugely to the lives of Moora residents than we possibly could have imagined. The cemetery reveals a much more personalised, non-standardised approach to the marking of gravesites. While there are many traditional stone markers, many other graves have a spectacular array of personal objects in very unique spatial arrangements - more of which ...Read more ►
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Sonia Leber & David Chesworth will be residents in Moora from:1st visit Aug 10 - Sept 30, 2011.2nd visit Oct 25 - Nov 5, 2011.
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