Gravity Calls
2008
Collaborative work with musician/sound artist Karen Heath
Touring group exhibition, Hockey Plot. Collaborations between Melbourne and Gippsland artists.
Exhibited at Westspace, Melbourne; Cowwarr Art Space, Cowwarr; Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale.
Heath and Ligertwood’s collaboration involved Heath responding to text by Ligertwood with a soundscape. The text was written directly onto the gallery wall and the soundscape played from several suspended headphones.
Audio:
Text:
The seat.
Moving,
Falling.
Gravity calls through a horn cast from the inner ear.
Like desire its purring velocity
echoes an aggregate of the real,
whisks its tail across its brow
and becomes its empty total.
I take a cast from the outer side,
press my lips to the horn’s mouth.
It’s too big,
too big by a unit of time
called love.
Falling body aggregates
an echo of the real.
Curled at the edges,
in volvo,
it undulates of difference between then
and then.
I take a cast from the inner side.
The inspector of conduits sneezes out
the before and aft.
A salt less drop remains
called love.
The two casts
seek to match,
bounce together in a unit of time
called hope.
Falling body and gravity,
echo and aggregate.
Untamed,
the seat
in motion
through a unit of time
the casts join
and the horn stops.
Dizzy.
Feet.
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