Friday 13 August 2010

David Carson, Phil Mouldtcliff, Colin Potter, Carley Tillett @ Horizon Planetarium, Scitech

Event Title: auspex Australis
Participating Artists: David Carson, Phil Mouldtcliff, Colin Potter, Carley Tillett

Venue:
Horizon Planetarium, Scitech
West Perth

Description: Auspex Australis - an International Year of Bio-diversity event.

Auspex Australis will open during the week beginning August 23rd 2010 at Horizon, the Planetarium, at Scitech in Perth Western Australia as part of National Science week.

This will be the world premier of a unique art and science collaboration between artists', musicians and environmental scientists working on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.

Over three evenings, Horizon Manager Carley Tillett, in association with West Australian artist David Carson, will present a live music, sound and video installation inside the 18 metre wide planetarium dome.

There will be a live performance of the musical score 'Auspex Autralis' written and performed by UK musicians' and sound artists' Phil Mouldycliff and Colin Potter.

Following the performance, special guest Dr Janos Hennicke, research fellow at the world renowned Chizé Centre for Biological Studies in France, will speak about his research and the global significance of the Christmas Island seabird project.

http://www.davecarson.net/DOMEworks/Auspex.html

Start Date: 24 August 2010
End Date: 27 August 2010
Opening Times: 6.30 to 8.30 booking essential (tickets free)

For more information, contact: auspex@iinet.net.au

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