ABOUT

Swimming Animistic is a three channel video projection that encourages a re-thinking and re-experiencing of the public environment of the Portside Wharf. The work, which incorporates moving images shot onsite at Portside, draws on Walter Benjamin’s concept of the flaneur – a figure who walks the streets slowly in order to more carefully observe the environment around them, as well as techniques used in the 1920s City Symphonies film genre – a movement which sought to explore film’s potential to engender new visual and sonic practices of flaneurie. Assuming the role of film-maker as flaneur, I wandered through Portside over a period of days, documenting built and natural landscapes and activities of people going about their every day lives.