connexion: space | place | time

Glenda Hobdell (aka LaBudda) and Catherine Schoch

South Gorge, North Stradbroke Island

LINES IN THE SAND FESTIVAL 2013

Glenda Hobdell and Catherine Schoch have an extensive history of collaboration. They were past joint recipients of an Arts Queensland Major Grant to develop and present new media artworks exploring connection to place and effects of technology over time. Pivotal to their work is the ability to connect their individual new media artistic praxis while retaining their own unique perspectives. Each of the artists has conducted individual visual arts research through QUT with a focus on North Stradbroke Island.

Through collaborative exploration and documentation of place, links between Catherine’s focus on relationships between what is perceived and the actual visual experience, and Glenda’s investigation of binary oppositions and hybrid forms, are articulated. Alternate views of the unique island environment formed the basis of the body of work, furthered by investigation of their hybrid potential.

Addressing possibilities for combination of naturally occurring and digital constructs, connexion: space | place | time explored blends of physical, virtual and temporal relationships located in the Stradbroke Island environment. Generated artworks made onnections visible between natural processes, the interconnectedness of nature and the visual preservation of original landscapes and systems. Projections and soundscapes in various Point Lookout locations invited audience participation through embodied experience.