It’s Already Happened, We’re Just In The Past
Shan Turner-Carroll
Emily Parsons-Lord
It’s Already Happened, We’re Just in the Past 2024 imagines a thick present where bodies are suspended together in a prolonged jolt. In this unstable moment of crisis, time and physics become liquid, speculative, vulnerable materials: a boulder hurtles through time, we grow an exoskeleton, a building sheds its skin.
Working in collaboration, artists and time-travellers, Emily Parsons-Lord and Shan Turner-Carroll, draw from the temporal logics of cinema, geology and science fiction to create an installation that unfolds across three days in the Carriageworks foyer. It’s Already Happened, We’re Just in the Past will be activated by live performances and live sound score by Evelyn Ida Morris.
This work asks ‘in moments of collapse, how do we fall safely together?’ This new work lingers in this suspended jolt, when wordlessness and disorientation unyoke the boundaries between fiction and reality, so that time-travel, shape shifting, and portal crossing are possible.
When Do I Breathe?
Lauren Brincat
When do I breathe? 2024 by artist Lauren Brincat is a public performance shaping new paths through the streets of Randwick, connecting communities in collaborative action.
Connecting three sites of activation across UNSW Kensington and the hospital precinct, the performance will move through Randwick at sunset into twilight. Timed at the intersection between the end of a working day and the beginning of a working night, it brings together local communities that are often separated by different shifts and daily rhythms.
With music composed by Evelyn Ida Morris, led by a group of dancers and held together with members of the NSW Collegium Musicum Choir and NIDA students and alumni, the performance will guide audiences on a journey of orchestrated harmonies. The artwork’s title,When Do I Breathe, is inspired by the in-between breaths of the choir, and the composition reflects these sounds, sighs, pauses, breaks, rests, and moments of gathering before action.
Movement and song animated a series of fabric sculptures, including a 100m, handwoven cotton gauze, providing a connective thread between the performers and the broader community. The sculptures also featured elements inspired by forms of nonverbal communication, such as silk tell-tales—to mark the way the wind blows—or knot tying—an ancient form of storing information.
When do I breathe? is the result of a year-long engagement with local communities by the artist, offering an artistic response to the value of care in our society. A collective action as a form of resistance, the work aims to empower the community to come together and reclaim public space.
This work was also made into a film, soundtracked by Evelyn Ida Morris, exhibited in an installation with the materials from the performance at The Lock-Up in Newcastle, 2025.
The Billowy Deep
Angela Brennan
The Billowy Deep 2023 is a film edited and soundtracked by Evelyn Ida Morris for Angela Brennan. Footage and stills were taken by Brennan in Cyprus while on a residency, in which a small gathering of portable artworks from artists in Australia were placed ‘on display’ in situ. Angela constructed a narrative in this film about Aphrodite returning to the ocean and taking these artworks with her as she went. Morris edited all the footage and stills and created sound design and a soundtrack. The film was screened at Composite Moving Image.