SEAM, a collaboration between multimedia artist Julia Davis and composer Jane Sheldon, is a meditative 2 channel cinematic video with surround sound.
Through the exchange between the real and digitally-imagined, the observer is invited to notice their own habits of listening and viewing and to experience a gently transformative state of being.
Davis and Sheldon use sound and imagery as (material) sources of energy, drawing our attention to natural forces of vastly different scales, from respiration in the body to the forces that build and erode the continent. Through breath, interacting layers of sustained pitch, and moving image, they consider the resonance with ourselves, others and the world, inviting us to imagine how we may reside in the continuity of place-creation and place-erosion, and the role we each have in both processes.
This project unites Davis and Sheldon in their first fully collaborative endeavour and emerges from their shared history of exploring transformative states of being – Davis in visual art, Sheldon in music – particularly those set in motion by a submission of the body to the landscape.
Production Team
- Julia Davis – Creative Direction
- Jane Sheldon – Composer, Performer, Creative Direction
- Tom Waugh – Camera
- Rian Taylor – Drone Pilot
- Clement Bouchet – Editor, Colourist, Online Artist
- Jesse Meha – Compositor
- Bob Scott – Sound Mix
SEAM is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
