19 APRIL - 13 MAY 2023
FELTDARK

CARRIE RADZEVICIUS
LIVELY MATTER

Lively Matter is a continuously expanding moving image that documents a cycle of construction, stabilisation, deconstruction and reorgansiation. Modelled on the adaptive resilience cycles proposed by ecologists Buzz Holling and Fikret Berkes, this interdisciplinary exploration combines resilience theory with contemporary creative process to offer a real-time model of an ecological process while elevating the messy, complicated and beautiful connections between nature and culture.

Assemblages comprised of everyday objects and materials sourced within the artist’s home, become lively matter as they form, deconstruct and adapt across five iterations with each of the 24 cycles. The crude evolution of each object’s assembly is accompanied by an assortment of over 160 sounds foraged from home and work to comprise the film’s score, providing the context of place, environment, belonging and adaptation. The resulting film reflects the power of novelty, innovation and memory to evoke resilience during a period of unprecedented disturbance and instability.

Bio

Carrie Radzevicius is a dual American and Australian living in Brisbane. With multi-disciplinary interests in ecology, systems thinking, community engagement and sound, her creative practice focuses on elevating everyday objects and materials through accessible, inclusive and collaborative processes. Her experimental approach celebrates the intrinsic link between art and science while fostering deep connections to place. Carrie also brings several years of community engagement experience to deliver public programs that encourage creative innovation, community interaction, wellbeing and civic engagement. Through her works and program delivery she aims to offer viewers and participants empowering experiences that spark compassion, empathy and understanding.