Kellie O’Dempsey, Brisbane QLD
What did you say? and Bloom
Kellie O’Dempsey creates site-generated installations and performances that integrate projection, video, collage, architectural space, gestural line, performance and digital drawing. Creating in both solo and collaborative formats with sound artists and contemporary dance practitioners, O’Dempsey’s diverse practice explores, deconstructs and heightens the concept of public space as shared experience.
Kellie O ’Dempsey’s What did you say? will light up Robertson Park between sunset and midnight from Thursday 20 – Sunday 30 October 2022. We invite you to explore the park after dark and discover this interactive installation as part of Orange City Council’s Future City Public Art Project.
Microscopic pores called stomata cover the surface of leaves exchanging carbon dioxide for oxygen. The world ‘stomata’ comes from the Greek word ‘stoma’ meaning ‘mouth’. What did you say? reimagines a tree’s stomata as the mouth through which the planet breathes. Viewers are asked to listen and engage in deep breathing, to be present in the moment, to connect, consider and rest. Using augmented reality, projected imagery and a soundscape of breathing, the artwork responds to our strange and ever-shifting social and environmental climate.
Artist Kellie O’Dempsey , Sound Mick Dick , AR Animations Helena Papageorgiou
What did you say?, Botanica, Brisbane Botanic Gardens 2021. Photo: Thomas Oliver
Due to wet weather the live light performance, Bloom on Saturday 22 October 2022 in Robertson Park has been postponed. The event will be rescheduled for a later date in Autumn 2023.
A spectacular light and sound performance by Kellie O’Dempsey (light) and Mick Dick (sound) in Robertson Park, Bloom will transform the park after dark as swathes of luminous colour are projected onto the trees during two immersive live drawing and sound performances.
Website: Kellie O’Dempsey
Instagram: @kellieodempsey and @mick.dick.dub
Kellie O’Dempsey and Mick Dick performance, Botanica, Brisbane Botanical Gardens 2021. Photo: Cian Sanders