Intone To Place. Front Beach Back Beach. Somers 2022
Intone To Place
Temporary public art commission for Front Beach Back Beach by Public Art Commission and MPRG.
Mornington Peninsula 2022.
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'We migrate. We move, we reposition and recuperate, and we receive others with grace – sometimes. In 1950 Amanda Shone’s grandparents and their children, after many years traversing through a devastated Europe from Latvia, arrived at Somers Migrant Camp, on Bunurong / Boon Wurrung country. This is the prism through which Shone makes and performs her work at Coolart Homestead, a place in-between the wetlands, which plays host to many migratory bird species, and the old camp, now a school camp. Most of the original buildings are now gone, shipped out to farmers and other communities for other purposes. Shone has found their forms to be significant, picking up on the social bonds these huts engineered. In a work that suggests the hut is homeless - as it migrates across the Coolart grounds over three days of performative activation - we find that culture endures, in community brought about by labour and song.'
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Shone works with her family. Quietly disassembling, relocating and rebuilding a structure built of recycled timber-some sourced from Parliament House, Melbourne and housing an adrift piano. Each time the building is settled in its new location, Baltic classical music is performed by duo Kirsonova and Lewis, melding musical notes and birdsong, exhaling into it’s new space , within grasslands and the grand Homestead gardens.
In a work that suggests the hut is homeless-as it migrated across the Coolart grounds over three days of performative activation-we find that culture endures, in community brought about by labour and song.
Cam Bishop. 2022
Technical support and Fabrication- Tommy Weinzieher and Allcreative
Performances Saturday 5th (10am, 12pm, 3pm), Sunday 6th (10am, 12pm, 3pm) and Saturday 12th November (1.30pm) 2022.
Acknowledgements:
Tommy Weinzieher, Peninsula Recycled Timber, Pianos Recycled, Ilma Hackett and the Balnarring Historical Society, Julie Ebbott and Friends of Coolart, Michelle Judd and Parks Victoria, David Muir, Leon Buynevic, Charlotte Lillywhite and family.
Performers - Georgina Lewis, Sophia Kirsanova, Mike Shone, Brad Kijlstra-Shone, Dylan Shone, Jasper Shone, Rob Symmons.