State of Disaster 2021: another year, another iteration.

Campbell Walker + Sally Ann McIntyre for STATE OF DISASTER 2021

Title: a shelter for the moment, but outlasting it. / Going through the motions (on foot)

Medium: radio art, poetry, video, performance 

Duration/dimensions: Daily video projections / radiophonic transmissions, 6-9pm

Location/exhibition: 34a Rankins Rd, Kensington (to be visible/audible by the tree on the northeast cnr. Rankins + Parsons)

Description: Together our collaboration explores the idea of shelter and constraint, the monumentality of grief and the smallness of the worlds between the walls. We haven’t left the house for a year. What have we been doing? Using up our own resources, working from home, failing to process the now. The claustrophobia of living with someone else in close proximity is also the facing of one’s own limits, the working out of common strategies. Whereas last year’s project for State of Disaster was about walking out from a central point, this one is about the seasickness of losing the horizon, of not being able to escape the moment. In our collaboration, we reflect on what it’s like to interpret this from the perspective of shared proximity. We both take the same information but we interpret it differently. Number of cases, number of deaths, radio broadcasts from the bunker. forts built from books. The cave of algorithms that decides a movement forward. Arbitrary but unavoidable statistics. the echo that returns from such emissions. weathering a moment and trying and failing to keep something safe, walking through the frustrations of entrapment.