Sönaris (2011-ongoing)

Documentation of first two versions of Sönaris, an ongoing project.
Version 1 at INFLIGHT ARI, Hobart, Tasmania, February 2011
and version 2 at Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania June/July 2011
as part of the 'Pirate Radio (and other hauntologies)' exhibition with Scot Cotterell.

Sönaris an ongoing project; research, aesthetic and ritualistic.
A personal psychdelic/dreamscape environment, a 'hauntology' of fears,
memories, turn ons, depictions of mental and physical sublime moments
and enveloping throught procresses and states of mind.
The visual and aural abstraction of such elements will
create an environment that will hopefully resonate with others
so they may feel empathy or a sense of familiarity. An 'ecstatic truth' (Werner Herzog).

The title Sönaris is a portmanteau word combining Sonar (a sound that will
be a recurring motif of the soundscape), Sonorous (a deep enveloping sound)
and Solaris (a fictional planet/landscape that is also a sentient being
from the book of the same name by Stanislaw Lem,
itself the basis for the film by Andrei Tarkovsky.