“Dalison” by Artist Ian Strange & Musician Trevor Powers
A shifting collaboration from Australian artist Ian Strange and American musician and producer Trevor Powers (previously Youth Lagoon). Melancholic but euphoric, “Dalison” is a eulogy for a soon-to-be demolished residence and the group it was as soon as a component. The undertaking sees an remoted “hold-out” dwelling dropped at life by an architectural intervention, and large-scale set up and “efficiency,” documented in an 18-minute movie and 4 photographic works. Utilizing a stadium-sized LED video display screen and programmed theatre lighting, Unusual choreographs a durational mild set up to Powers’ unique 18-minute composition of experimental sound, reworking the empty residence of 20 Dalison Avenue in Wattleup, Western Australia.
“Dalison” varieties a part of Unusual’s ongoing physique of labor, constructing large-scale architectural interventions with communities, exploring concepts of “dwelling” and social displacement around the globe. Wattleup was as soon as a thriving suburban township between Perth’s Indian Ocean and main freeway. It now sits eerily deserted on account of state authorities redevelopment and is only one of two residences remaining. 300+ houses have already been demolished, leaving many households uprooted and unsure about their future.
“The concept of the undertaking was to construct this large-scale display screen that might enable us to chop the home out of the panorama with mild, to expertise the house in shifting states of visibility, both silhouetted, remoted in darkness, or revealed in its huge, empty context,” Unusual says. By way of the music, Powers created the composition whereas in isolation on the opposite facet of the world, sourcing inspiration from Unusual’s analysis into 20 Dalison in addition to his dwelling in Idaho. As he explains: “I wished the music to sound prefer it was dug up in a area, like one thing that was found, lined in dust, that it had some form of previous life or perhaps a number of previous lives.”
The story of Dalison, in addition to detailed perception into Unusual and Powers’ collaboration, is captured in an accompanying documentary brief to be launched on-line. For now, you may take a look at the trailer, photographic paintings, in addition to some behind-the-scenes photos from the making of the undertaking under!
