Outback and Beyond is a live audio-visual performance and collaboration between myself and Rome-based sound-artist Mike Cooper. It is a live remix of films and images from the National Film and Sound Archive and the State Library of South Australia, accompanied by Mike Cooper's live soundtrack of lap-steel guitar and deconstructed Blues, and a libretto recounting the adventures and misadventures of Charles Todd, the engineer who built the Overland Telegraph from Darwin to Adelaide in the 1870s. It is a meditation on the images and myths that form Australia's national identity, and on methods of contesting the formation of that identity. In this paper, I explore the implications of the live archival remix that underpins the project; implications in terms of how the project works with archival materials in a performance context, but also in terms of the enquiry the project conducts into archival practice itself.
Journal article
Performing archival remix in Outback and Beyond
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Vol.11(1), pp.100-115
2015
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- Title
- Performing archival remix in Outback and Beyond
- Creators
- Grayson Cooke - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Vol.11(1), pp.100-115
- Identifiers
- 2544; 991012821501902368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Creative Arts; School of Arts and Social Sciences
- Resource Type
- Journal article