Monday, February 29, 2016

Driving | Dubai: Desert Views

Dubai reminds of Las Vegas, not only for its extravagant architecture, shopping malls and lack of pedestrian urban spaces, but also for the surrounding landscape. Both cities are characterized by vertical manmade expansion in the horizontal yellow-red horizontal desert landscape. Even more in Dubai, the desert offers a fluid changing sand dunes shaped contrasting perceptions from the urban rigid manmade environment.
The desert offers a totally different environment from the urban places, perceptually and culturally. Below are a few views from one of the tourist favorites: the desert safari. A 80 kilometers drive takes to another extravaganza: a fast four-wheel drive into the dunes.


Thursday, February 11, 2016

Artist Talk & Performance | "Being, Vitruvian" ADPML Gallery, Deakin University, 8 February


 
We wish to acknowledge the Wathaurong people of the Kulin nations, the traditional owners of the land on which we are gathered today.
We pay our respects to the local people for allowing us to have our gathering on their land and to their Elders; past, present and future.
Welcome to Country
Talk and Performance: Daniela Bertol
Introduction by Marita Batna and Michael Morgan
Performance sounds: Josephine Lange
Photography: Lance Youston

 






Geometry inspired movements from the performance