{"id":3524,"date":"2022-08-18T11:36:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T01:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horizonfestival.com.au\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2022-08-18T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T02:27:19","slug":"in-conversation-with-kellie-odempsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizon-festival-wp.lndo.site\/news\/in-conversation-with-kellie-odempsey\/","title":{"rendered":"in conversation with Kellie O’Dempsey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

we caught up, for a quick chat, with the brains behind this year’s visual art exhibition ‘what did you say?’, Kellie O’Dempsey. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What did you say?<\/em> responds to this strange shifting social and environmental climate. Some mouths breathe with ease; others struggle to catch their breath; a silent few are deathly still. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viewers are asked to both listen and engage in deep and conscious breathing, to be present in the moment, to connect, consider and breathe. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image credit: Thomas Oliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hey Kellie, what\u2019s been happening?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the moment, I have a large work up on Outer Face<\/em> which is Outer Space\u2019s digital projection public art program, on display every evening between on the fa\u00e7ade of Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tell us a bit about yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 I am an interdisciplinary artist based on the Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What makes you happy?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image credit: Thomas Oliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And what makes you happy creatively?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibitions, film, music and hanging with creatives talking and making work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is there ever an end-point in your creative process \u2014 for example, the opening of an exhibition \u2014 or are you always searching for something new?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never- ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who inspires you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laurie Andersen and William Kentridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does a perfect<\/em> day look like for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drink sangria in the park
And then later, when it gets dark
We go home<\/em> \u2026. Then later a movie, too
And then home<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lou Reed\u2019s Perfect Day from the Transformer <\/em>album 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image credit: Thomas Oliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We can\u2019t wait to see your project for the festival. In layman’s terms: what is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a multi-media work experienced outside on a tree using projection \u2014 sound by Mick Dick and AR (augmented reality) by Helena Papageorgiou \u2014 that invites you to lean in and listen in to nature. Driven by the collage, pop\/dada imagery that may have had its birth when I first saw the original The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em> movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What will you be checking out at the festival?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sand, Steven Oliver, RISOFEST, Phototropism and The Sinkers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, our the Horizon Spotify playlist has been torched in recent months. Can you give us an album to add to it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby<\/em> \u2014 Fat boy Slim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Find out more about what did you say?<\/em> here<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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check out the full program here<\/a>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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