The South Sydney Project – Chippendale residency
This blog documents the process of research as part of my ten day residency at Serial Space in Chippendale from 3 – 13 November 2010.
The project I am developing is an interactive audiovisual installation using archival material called The South Sydney Project. The archive I am working with was created by historian Sue Rosen in 1994-5. It charts a social history of 20th century South Sydney through 60 video interviews with people who grew up in suburbs such as Redfern, Surry Hills, Chippendale and Waterloo between 1910 – 1980. Over the past few years I have developed an installation practice based on the re-interpretation, re-processing and re-imagining of documentary and archival material. After stumbling across this archive, I became fascinated with the interviews and negotiated to access the material to re-interpret it into an installation artwork.
Nestled behind the gutted Carlton Brewery and in the heart of the ever-gentrifying Chippendale, I will spend ten days at Serial Space working with the archival material; listening to stories and thinking about the best way I can re-materialize these narratives into an artwork that opens up a space for interaction with the past.
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Jessica Tyrrell is a Sydney-based new media artist who works at the intersection of installation, audio/visual performance, sound, video, online & locative media. Visit Jessica’s main website here.