NEMATODE DREAMS
A collaboration with Selena de Carvalho and Julia Drouhin
Welcome to Nematode Dreams, a walking art work that threads its way through nipaluna/ Hobart as a passage of soundscapes and creative acupuncture. Raising voices of more than human agents in a storied approach that centres bio-diverse communities.
Listen on your personal device, connect in a quiet private space or as you traverse a safe pathway through nipaluna/Hobart. Walk the full passage from the rivulet on Molle and Collins Street to end at Hunter street, where the rivers mouth once flowed, or engage discreetly with the works as independent offerings.
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Charcoal Chandelier
Here hangs a chandelier made from charred willow, willow whose roots swallow the rivulet that it hangs over. A rivulet that was swallowed years ago by this town. For me, chandeliers represent a time in our collective history of violence and invasion, darkly hidden behind elegance and opulence. Wonky and delicate, this chandelier sways and swirls in the wind. Pure carbon, connected with copper and wax.
Before you make the charcoal you must strip-off the willow’s bark, easy as a band-aid. Willow bark has anti-inflammatory properties, while charcoal filters out impurities.
This town is here to stay (or is it?), so how do we heal its wounds?
Materials:
Chandelier: Willow branches collected from Browns Rivulets that runs from kunanyi, salvaged paraffin wax and copper wire, charcoal and salvaged plaster
Herbal remedies for a broken city: willow bark, charcoal and salvaged plaster, herbal weeds collected around the streets of nipaluna/Hobart
Floating notifiers: Squid & Sap bones, Carsurina nuts, copper wire
Supported by Creative Hobart, an initiative of City of Hobart