Bogong High Plains
These images were made for the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture as part of a series of residency comissions for the visual components of the Bogong High Plains Sound Map. I spent 3 weeks living and working in Bogong Village in the Victorian High Plains making images that broadly addressed the concerns of the Sound Map project – the recording and visualising of the unique cold weather ecology throughout the region, and the interplay of Hydroelectricity infastructure and the Falls Creek Alpine Resort with the landscape. This work was made on and around the lands of the Pallanganmiddang/Waywurru and the Dhudhuroa.
A big part of my approach to this project was thinking about how to reckon with the respresentation of histroy in these images. The region is expereinced primarily through its current recreational and tourism faculties – but was ‘opened up’ to use post settlement through the construction of hydroelectricity production facillitites and the reconfiguring of natural process that comes with that.
Finding ways to forfornt ‘seeing’ that, and some of the what it means, in images of the place is an unsolved puzzle. These images are my attempts at balancing this with a visualisation of the apline and sub apline ecologies of the Bogong High Plains.
BSCS Journal Entry 1
BSCS Journal Entry 2
BSCS Journal Entry 3