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Hi All,

During 2015 I will be the Artist in Residence at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.

I started this week and yesterday they took me for a tour of their numerous repositories that hold over 210000 items.

On my travels I came across this ex ABC Television Van all safely packed up inside one of these amazing Carcoons.

Beautiful huh? (both the van and the carcoon).

Vic

That's one of the most strangely beautiful things I've ever seen.

It's stunning isnt' it. And strange too, seeing a room full of buss's, cars and more, all inside their own massive inflated carcoons.

It's a bit like a futuristic Sci Fi props storage vault.

In stasis.

Huge congrats Vic on your Artist in Residence.
Those pics are surreal..... like specimens!

Thanks Chris,

it's a fantastic and exciting opportunity, to be here all year off and on.
This is my first week, which I am spending getting the lay of the land and understanding the role of the Museum, whilst planning for upcoming experiments

I imagine those carcoons as massive snow domes.

Vic

They look like massive kids toys in original packaging.
Congrats on the residency Vic, it sounds like an amazing time will be had by you.

Last year whilst planning my residency with the National Museum, I proposed that I should have a public outcome right at the beginning, to start in a productive way while I settled into longer works later in the year.

I proposed that I create a performance on the PS Enterprise, one of the worlds oldest paddle steamers. I suggested I would put contact microphones on it and play a mesmerising soundscape created entirely on the vessel. I would accompany that with video projections mapped to the very surface of the paddle steamer itself.

I suggested it could be a part of another event. They agreed and so now my next gig will be supporting Katie Noonan, on the foreshore of Lake Burley Griffin, playing a soundtrack entirely on a paddle steamer at sunset on February 28th.

http://www.nma.gov.au/whats-on/events/by_the_water_2015

Then, after that I'll get to explore....more....deeply.....