Dissolve the Walls (2025)
Single channel video, 4 channel audio, 20mins
20 June - 27 Sept at Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Tarntanya, as part of the exhibition “North Terrace: worlds in relief” curated by Jasmin Stephens
Producer: Chris Luscri
Sound Design & Mix: Josh Peters
Cultural Consultant & Storyteller: Uncle Mickey O’Brien
Studio Assistants: Anastasia Comelli, Bryce Kraehenbuehl
Field Recording Excerpt: Khristos Nizamis (Hearing Beings)
Special Thanks: Natalie Harkin, Dr. Julie Collins at the Architecture Museum, Green Adelaide, Australian Platypus Conservancy, The Australian Conservation Foundation, Bowerbird Collective, Wild Ambience and Carmela Luscri.
Produced on the lands of the Kaurna People.
Supported by the Government of South Australia (Create SA), the Samstag Museum and Nexus Arts.
Inspired by Natalie Harkin’s poem “Cultural Precinct”, the work looks beneath the surface and listens between the cracks by dissolving the walls built by colonial settlement in Kaurna Yerta through a journey of sonic archaeology and de-colonial listening. Along the institutional buildings of present-day North Terrace in South Australia, the materiality of these buildings reveal their past— the first red bricks made of clay from the river bed, the limestone walls taken from the old quarry. Enduring time and space, the spirits within these materials carry us with them to witness their history. We travel through the galleries, museums, former Armoury storage and Police Barracks towards the Karrawirra Parri (River Torrens) where Indigenous Kaurna life, cultural activities and native animals existed long before.