Yabba
2012 -
Photographs, video and sound.
The Yabba project is an extension of a work titled Hemipteron: a form of conceptual documentary which investigates the underbelly of vernacular Mildura. The still and moving imagery is informed and inspired by choreographed, instigated and random voice recordings at a specific site which is both a physical place and biospherical zone. The project is an audiovisual haiku that raises questions in regard to poignant contemporary issues relating to the local/global, obvious/surreptitious surveillance and unscripted/choreographed public/private behavioral patterns. The imagery is underpinned and guided by a score that was composed by Häggblom’s Finnish colleague and collaborator Tuomas Alexander Laitinen.
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