Language of Resonance

8.11.23 - 11.11.23
Opening Night | Live Performance: 8.11.23
Queensland University of Technology


Language of Resonance, a part of inFORM | 2023 QUT Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition, is a body of work that materialises aquatic sounds and human vocals in visual, tactile, and aural forms. Field recordings of bodies of water from within the ocean, a waterfall, and a stream play alongside a recording of Gmona Kila, the artist’s aunty, singing a song in their tradional Balawaian language about the story of Kwali Roparopana, an earthquake and landslide that took place in Rigo, Papua Niugini.

This layered audio resonates through a steel bowl conjuring ripples in the water inside. On the adjacent wall, a canvas holds soil that’s been dispersed by vibrations. The work is activated by microphones in an embodied performance where the artist invokes phantoms of sound in the water.





Exhibition view, Language of Resonance, 2023, steel bowl, water, bass shaker, soil on canvas, audio (looped), Queensland University of Technology, dimensions vary



Language of Resonance, 2023, steel bowl, water, bass shaker, soil on canvas, audio (looped), dimensions vary


Language of Resonance, 2023, soil on canvas, 150 x 120cm



Language of Resonance, 2023, steel bowl, water, bass shaker, audio (looped), 110cm diameter x 30cm, 17:04minutes (looped)