Tully Arnot on VR artwork Epiphytes
Tully Arnot's multi-sensory virtual reality work, 'Epiphytes' explores plant communication, posthumanism and alternate forms of perception.
Set within an abstract representation of Tully’s childhood backyard, Epiphytes consists of an environment featuring a diffuse, shifting, magenta palette. Reliance on sight is de-escalated in favour of sound and scent to influence the user’s bodily responses within the virtual space. The work honours alternative forms of plant communication and consciousness, inviting the user to question their own perception.
Epiphytes features interviews with evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, acoustic archaeologist Umashankar Manthravadi and echolocation teacher/blind researcher and activist Thomas Tajo. Arranging these sonic elements within the VR environment, Tully invokes curiosity and exploration by the user, while generating a conversational dialogue between these three diverse theorists.
Field recordings of local birds and other ecological sounds complement the recorded conversations of the theorists, along with sounds representing water and nutrients flowing through trees, suggesting a natural environment that is either fabricated or fading. The audio is spatially controlled, using virtual reality as a powerful acoustic tool to represent sounds that cannot be created in reality.
Tully Arnot is the 2019 recipient of the Mordant Family VR Commission.
The Mordant Family VR Commission is created in partnership with Professor Cav. Simon Mordant AO and Catriona Mordant AM, the City of Melbourne and ACMI.
Tully Arnot: Epiphytes
Mordant Family VR Commission
ACMI Gallery 3, 4–27 Nov 2022
Learn more: https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/tull...
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