David Haines & Joyce Hinterding

David Haines
Born 1966 in London, England
Lives on Darug and Gundungurra land (Blue Mountains, Australia)

Joyce Hinterding
Born 1958 in Melbourne, Australia
Lives on Darug and Gundungurra land (Blue Mountains, Australia)

David Haines and Joyce Hinterding live and work in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia and work both collaboratively and independently. Their solo and collaborative practices span various media from large-scale immersive video installation and experimental audio works for performance to discrete objects, images and aroma compositions. They often combine mediums with a concern for energies and the intersection between hallucination and the landscape, incorporating sound, installation, video, performance, sculpture, photography, drawing and computer game technologies.

Pink Steam, 2022

video and sound installation

Single Channel Video shot in hyper colour infrared at 470 nm on a specially modified camera
DUR 56:31, Stereo Sound
6 Channel live sound of Cosmic Rays (muons) – Cosmic Ray Detector: Geiger Muller Array, 6 channel Audio, Muon Counter, various electronics, table, amplifiers.

Muon detector: Robert Hart

Programming: Paul Schulz

Courtesy the artists & Sarah Cottier Gallery

Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the UK/Australia Season Patrons Board, the British Council and the Australian Government as part of the UK/Australia Season

‘Much of our fieldwork has revolved around the signals that come from the sky. The resonance of cosmic level forces in action that continually glue together the cosmos and the ground.’  

‘Pink Steam brings together the earth and sky by way of radiation expressed through cosmic rays and the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. It was filmed on the Fish River, a tributary of the Macquarie Darling System in Western NSW that passes through Wiradjuri Country. Using specially modified cameras we were able to see parts of the spectrum that transmit beyond visible light. The work’s sound comes from the real-time detection of muons, particles of energy that are the result of cosmic rays colliding with the earth’s atmosphere. The muon detectors and custom electronics were built by amateur radio astronomer Robert Hart based on an Open-Source Muon detector design. The circuit allows us to hear the presence of muon activity in the exhibition space in real-time, as the particles shower down upon us and pass through everything, like another kind of rain made of invisible energy.’ 

All quotes from David Haines & Joyce Hinterding Pink Steam Artists’ Statement  

www.sarahcottiergallery.com

www.haineshinterding.net

https://cosmicray.com.au/

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23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022)

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