architecture, Installations, Visual Art / Visual Artist
Project By Artist Ian Strange Called ‘DALISON’
Project By Artist Ian Strange Called ‘DALISON’.
ABOUT PROJECT
DALISON is an architectural intervention and durational sound and light installation, created by Ian Strange in collaboration with musician Trevor Powers, resulting in four new photographic works. an 18-minute single-channel film work, and a one-off community performance.
The site-specific work was built in December 2021 around an isolated “hold out” home awaiting demolition at 20 Dalison Avenue, Wattleup, Western Australia. The home at 20 Dalison is one of two remaining in the former-suburb, where more than 300 others have been razed for a controversial redevelopment first earmarked in 1996. Made with permission from the home’s former owners, the installation comprised a large-scale LED video screen, programmed lighting and Powers’ original 18-minute composition, transforming the home into a “performance” of slow, poetic light and sound movements. The result is a form of “anti-concert”, transmitted out into the void of a once densely populated suburb. Over three nights, Strange documented this performance in film and photography. On the last night, a small group of the home’s former owners, ex-residents and collaborators were invited to an intimate one-off live viewing of the installation before it was dismantled.
