Cleanse

Heyward, ME

Cleanse

Heyward, ME

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Publisher:: Centre for Media Arts Innovation, UTS
Publication Type:: Exhibition
Citation:: Memory Flows

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dc.contributor.author	Heyward, ME https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3146-2569	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Neumark, N	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Kouyoumdjian, S	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Turnbull, D	en_US
dc.date	2010-05-14	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Memory Flows	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-9808082-0-9	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/41015
dc.description.abstract	"Cleanse" is a media artwork commissioned for the Memory Flows exhibition at The Newington Armory, Sydney Olympic Park, from May 14- June 20, 2010. Supported by national, competitive funding from the InterArts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, Memory Flows was also supported by the Sydney Olympic Park Authority, the ABC and UTS. Memory Flows featured fifteen media artworks, curated by Norie Neumark, Deb Turnbull and Sophia Kouyoumdjian. "Cleanse" is a video installation examining the complex histories of memory and place associated with Sydney’s Parramatta River. Cleanse explores the murky traces of the Parramatta River’s contentious past – the Radium Hill uranium refinery at Hunter’s Hill, chemical contamination from the Union Carbide plants at Rhodes, the insane asylum at Bedlam Point – and shifting narratives of memory and place through video montages of the river’s past and present that are threaded into an immersive installation comprised of authentic 1930’s river artefacts and video projections. "Cleanse" was exhibited within Memory Flows, an Australia Council funded project exploring water, flows and memory, suggesting “we are in an active and ethical relationship with our waterways…We can sense the flow of memory between ourselves and rivers as a network of complex relations” (Norie Neumark, Memory Flows catalogue, ISBN 978-0-9808082-0-9). The Memory Flows exhibition was reviewed in RealTimeArts “the shapes of water”, July 2012, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue97/9919 with "Cleanse" singled out as “the most stylish” in terms of its “narrative approach to the thematic”, so that “these memory fragments are intriguingly rich with a sense of the past, implying an innocence but also an ignorance in our past interaction with the ecosystem”.	en_US
dc.publisher	Centre for Media Arts Innovation, UTS	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Memory Flows	en_US
dc.title	Cleanse	en_US
dc.type	Exhibition
utslib.location	Newington Armory, Sydney Olympic Park Authority, Homebush Bay, Sydney	en_US
utslib.for	1902 Film, Television and Digital Media	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.consider-herdc	true	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Newington Armory, Sydney Olympic Park Authority, Homebush Bay, Sydney	en_US
pubs.start-date	2010-05-14	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	"Cleanse" is a media artwork commissioned for the Memory Flows exhibition at The Newington Armory, Sydney Olympic Park, from May 14- June 20, 2010. Supported by national, competitive funding from the InterArts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, Memory Flows was also supported by the Sydney Olympic Park Authority, the ABC and UTS. Memory Flows featured fifteen media artworks, curated by Norie Neumark, Deb Turnbull and Sophia Kouyoumdjian. "Cleanse" is a video installation examining the complex histories of memory and place associated with Sydney’s Parramatta River. Cleanse explores the murky traces of the Parramatta River’s contentious past – the Radium Hill uranium refinery at Hunter’s Hill, chemical contamination from the Union Carbide plants at Rhodes, the insane asylum at Bedlam Point – and shifting narratives of memory and place through video montages of the river’s past and present that are threaded into an immersive installation comprised of authentic 1930’s river artefacts and video projections. "Cleanse" was exhibited within Memory Flows, an Australia Council funded project exploring water, flows and memory, suggesting “we are in an active and ethical relationship with our waterways…We can sense the flow of memory between ourselves and rivers as a network of complex relations” (Norie Neumark, Memory Flows catalogue, ISBN 978-0-9808082-0-9). The Memory Flows exhibition was reviewed in RealTimeArts “the shapes of water”, July 2012, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue97/9919 with "Cleanse" singled out as “the most stylish” in terms of its “narrative approach to the thematic”, so that “these memory fragments are intriguingly rich with a sense of the past, implying an innocence but also an ignorance in our past interaction with the ecosystem”.	en_US

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"Cleanse" is a media artwork commissioned for the Memory Flows exhibition at The Newington Armory, Sydney Olympic Park, from May 14- June 20, 2010. Supported by national, competitive funding from the InterArts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, Memory Flows was also supported by the Sydney Olympic Park Authority, the ABC and UTS. Memory Flows featured fifteen media artworks, curated by Norie Neumark, Deb Turnbull and Sophia Kouyoumdjian. "Cleanse" is a video installation examining the complex histories of memory and place associated with Sydney’s Parramatta River. Cleanse explores the murky traces of the Parramatta River’s contentious past – the Radium Hill uranium refinery at Hunter’s Hill, chemical contamination from the Union Carbide plants at Rhodes, the insane asylum at Bedlam Point – and shifting narratives of memory and place through video montages of the river’s past and present that are threaded into an immersive installation comprised of authentic 1930’s river artefacts and video projections. "Cleanse" was exhibited within Memory Flows, an Australia Council funded project exploring water, flows and memory, suggesting “we are in an active and ethical relationship with our waterways…We can sense the flow of memory between ourselves and rivers as a network of complex relations” (Norie Neumark, Memory Flows catalogue, ISBN 978-0-9808082-0-9). The Memory Flows exhibition was reviewed in RealTimeArts “the shapes of water”, July 2012, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue97/9919 with "Cleanse" singled out as “the most stylish” in terms of its “narrative approach to the thematic”, so that “these memory fragments are intriguingly rich with a sense of the past, implying an innocence but also an ignorance in our past interaction with the ecosystem”.

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