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The Age
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
The Perth artists using technology to give a new perspective on the city's shot-hole borer toll
Cassandra Tyler's pitch to her fellow Perth creatives couldn't be more madcap: 'I want to make a musical about the shot-hole borer.' However, Tyler's idea for a musical was not the kind that would play at Crown Theatre but an experimental piece using the sounds of Hyde Park, which has lost about 20 per cent of its trees due to the polyphagous shot-hole borer. The work created by Tyler, W. Tse Sang and Catherine Gough-Brady aims to trigger a strong emotional response and make the people of Perth feel deeply for the loss of thousands of trees. 'People know what's happening from a scientific point of view. We understand that thousands of trees have been chopped down,' Tyler said. 'And we know that the battle is lost and all we can do is wait until the trees fall down or they're cut down. But we don't feel that loss. It is something apart from us.' Loading However, there is a lot more going on in the trio's piece ARia Song Unseen, one of three new immersive art works developed under an innovative program created by the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts called boorda yeyi (a Noongar phrase meaning 'future now'). In their project, Tyler, Sang and Gough-Brady work with AR – or augmented reality – in which participants are given a tablet and headphones and invited to circle a bag of woodchips which, through the tech, is overlaid the ghost-like image of the Moreton Bay figs that have been cut down, along with the sounds of Hyde Park. Tyler, a multidisciplinary artist who moved across from Melbourne, was moved to make a work about the shot-hole borer that is wreaking havoc across Perth and is now threatening trees in the eastern states when she saw a connection between the ravenous bug and the colonisation of Australia.
Sydney Morning Herald
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The Perth artists using technology to give a new perspective on the city's shot-hole borer toll
Cassandra Tyler's pitch to her fellow Perth creatives couldn't be more madcap: 'I want to make a musical about the shot-hole borer.' However, Tyler's idea for a musical was not the kind that would play at Crown Theatre but an experimental piece using the sounds of Hyde Park, which has lost about 20 per cent of its trees due to the polyphagous shot-hole borer. The work created by Tyler, W. Tse Sang and Catherine Gough-Brady aims to trigger a strong emotional response and make the people of Perth feel deeply for the loss of thousands of trees. 'People know what's happening from a scientific point of view. We understand that thousands of trees have been chopped down,' Tyler said. 'And we know that the battle is lost and all we can do is wait until the trees fall down or they're cut down. But we don't feel that loss. It is something apart from us.' Loading However, there is a lot more going on in the trio's piece ARia Song Unseen, one of three new immersive art works developed under an innovative program created by the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts called boorda yeyi (a Noongar phrase meaning 'future now'). In their project, Tyler, Sang and Gough-Brady work with AR – or augmented reality – in which participants are given a tablet and headphones and invited to circle a bag of woodchips which, through the tech, is overlaid the ghost-like image of the Moreton Bay figs that have been cut down, along with the sounds of Hyde Park. Tyler, a multidisciplinary artist who moved across from Melbourne, was moved to make a work about the shot-hole borer that is wreaking havoc across Perth and is now threatening trees in the eastern states when she saw a connection between the ravenous bug and the colonisation of Australia.
