Installations

RIPAIRIAN [2023 – ]

Vahri McKenzie and Gemma Ben-Ary, 2024, Iso Dawn. Photograph by Christopher Canato. During a 9-week residency at Midland Junction Arts Centre, Vahri McKenzie and Gemma Ben-Ary developed a series of new performance art experiments and fibre-woven artworks in conversation with a site near Mandoon Bilya/Helena …

Zoongnosis [2022]

Like the neologism that splices the Greek roots for animal, knowledge, and disease of animal origins, ‘Zoongnosis’ splices donated audio with discarded gloves and parrot wings. This COVID-safe participatory artwork invited people to send me audio recordings that reflected their ‘COVID mood’, persistent and lingering …

Colour me, Beautiful [2021]

Colour Me, Beautiful time-lapse documentation video of live performance artwork. With thanks to the hundreds of visitors who added their colour story, and to delegate artists Annette Carmichael, Bec Bradley, Rebecca Corps, Gemma Ben-Ary, Josef Quinn, Nathan Gardiner, Sheree Dohnt, Rizzy, and videographer Katherine Ingarfield. …

Narrowcast [2019]

Narrowcast is a durational performance artwork presented in Bunbury Regional Art Galleries in which the artists install a radio studio in BRAG’s Convent Gallery and ‘narrowcast’ during opening hours for one week. In this improvised speech-as-sound artwork, content creation is secondary to an exploration of …

Sleep Disorders [2010-2012]

Sleep Disorders is a body of work that investigates the pathologisation of sleep through performance research. Image credit: Vahri McKenzie and Hellen Russo, Fool Asleep, in Fringe World Festival 2012. Perth, Australia: The Treasury, 2012. Photograph by Lisa Carrie Goldberg. Fool Asleep is a one-act …