Sound spatialisation and design for Skin Shade Night Day, multichannel video installation by Allison Chhorn.
4-channel video and 12-channel sound installation with shade cloth, rope, fishing wire and coconut coir, 45 minutes.
“Skin Shade Night Day explores the daily routine and rituals practised by the artist’s Cambodian-Australian family, which are reperformed and documented through a process of embodied empathy. Acts of service, such as gardening and cooking, play out as echoes from the past across a sound and image installation displayed in a shadehouse. Spectres, shadows and aural textures conjure up impressions of a place that remembers how its inhabitants once lived.”
Porter Street Commission at ACE Gallery, Adelaide, Australia.
Supported by the Government of South Australia (Arts SA)
4 June - 13 August 2022