Live artwork takes shape at exhibition

An experimental Charles Darwin University artist collaborated with a quartet of professional dancers to create a pièce de résistance, during his exhibition opening. 

Printmaking lecturer and sound artist Mats Undén delivered live electronic noise for the dancers, as a seven-metre-long print took shape under their feet, at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, in Parap.

“In a broad sense I am exploring how music and printmaking interact outside their traditional frameworks,” Mr Undén said.

He said the dancers – Lizzi Webb, Jenny Baker, Putu Warti and Jinu Mathew – had diverse styles that were influenced by their lives in Darwin, Milingimbi, Bali and India respectively.

The live artwork was the final piece in the exhibition titled “Tonality in Time and Space”, which runs until 23 September.

Another of Mr Undén’s works will feature in the Darwin International Film Festival – a calming immersive experience of sound, light and projection on display in the NCCA screen room.

He also will perform an analogue electronic soundtrack to the classic silent horror film Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (Germany, 1920) – at Happy Yess, from 9pm on Friday, 15 September.