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InGrained: Ord Irrigation Scheme Landscape Transformations and Entanglements
Moving Image Lab Perth (MILP)
Transversal (Claremont, Perth, 30/10/2025–25/11/2025)
2025
Abstract
Agriculture is routinely perceived as bucolic, benign or beneficial, while behaviours of wild species are often understood as reflecting natural patterns. Anthropogenic underpinnings of food systems and animal behaviours can be invisible in standard cinematography without multi-modal cues to increase perception and prompt deeper understandings of less apparent forces. In Grained responds to the need for creative, practice-led research inquiry to prompt deeper interpretation. An interdisciplinary collaboration spanning landscape studies, sound design, filmmaking and performance reveals how industrial food systems reconfigure place, species relations and crucially, our perceptions of such entanglements. Focused on the Ord River Irrigation Scheme on Miriwoong and Gajirrabeng Country, this original audiovisual work stages deceptively bucolic drone footage of sorghum harvesting contrasted by suggestive glitching visual intrusions and a two layer sound design with scripted performance. Visual and sonic material suggests layered socioecological infrastructures—remaking catchment scale ecologies for freshwater capture and redistribution, visible and hidden architectures of industrial agribusiness, empire and racism, labour and capital flows, and multispecies codependence on agri-systems. In Grained combines original and archival cinematography, place-attuned sound design, scripting and acted audio performances and gallery staging with dedicated props to invite sustained, embodied attention and slow contemplation. It was exhibited at Form Gallery in Claremont, Perth, 30 Oct–25 Nov 2025 in an exhibition titled ‘Transversal’, curated by Moving Image Lab Perth (MILP). Eleven artists works’ spanned video art, expanded cinema, and experimental documentary, and were refined during a laboratory residency.
Details
- Title
- InGrained: Ord Irrigation Scheme Landscape Transformations and Entanglements
- Authors/Creators
- Joshua Zeunert (Creator) - University of New South WalesLeo Murray (Sound designer) - Murdoch University, School of Media and CommunicationAlys Daroy (Creator) - Murdoch University, School of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesDannon Wu (Visual effects)
- Event
- Transversal (Claremont, Perth, 30/10/2025–25/11/2025)
- Publisher
- Moving Image Lab Perth (MILP)
- Format
- Exhibition
- Identifiers
- 991005845663007891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Other creative works
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