DANCE|MEDIA project: SandSkin | BloodWater

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Art intersects with remote farmers after floods.
Interdisciplinary arts project in July 2011, intersecting with the farming community in the Gascoyne River region led by collaborating live research artists Marnie Orr & Rachel Sweeney.
Over 2 weeks in July 2011, SandSkin | BloodWater works creatively but sensitively at a front line of immense environmental change inland from Carnrvon in the mid-west region of Western Australia. The Gascoyne River has experienced four floods and a major locust plague in the last three months.

Project Aim: As professional artists, to tend to the frontline of catastrophic disaster within a farming community and offer what we have. To find a way to generate work within this environment but maintaining an ethically sound approach.

Creative Drive: To use navigational tools for crossing and mapping terrain of extreme change. These tools are inclusive of physical language/vocabulary, verbal articulation, and skills of craft.
Professional Drive: Refine a methodology blueprint for rigorous cross-disciplinary collaboration being developed by Orr & Sweeney since 2006.