Hail Moon - EXPLORATION OF MOVING IMAGE IN THE NORTHERN SUBURBS

Hail Moon is an evolving body of work exploring projection works of scale across the Darwin Skyline.

BOTANICALs - DARWIN FESTIVAL 2020

Botanicals careful choreographed movements map out the porous embodiments of human and more-than-humankind. Head, shoulders, knees, toes, petal, sepal, receptacle, stamen. Bodily boundaries, skins and textures are traded, shaped and switched in a curious dance of multi-species exchange. Matthew van Roden’s trans-disciplinary practice revels in exploring enmeshed possibilities and indeterminacy of being.

ACCOMPLICE takes this skin-dance to everyday sites across Darwin in a series of surprising projections where surface, skin, boundary, texture become sites for re-entanglement between the urban and natural world as part of Darwin Festival 2020.

Hail Moon - Sweat Season 2019

As part of Sweat Season in 2019 Matthew Van Roden in collaboration with Tarzan JungleQueen created a moving image work titled Hail Moon. This work was presented at Lake Alexander projected into the foliage of a tree.

Hail Moon is a projection of their collective love for a future earth that can sustain temporary bodies. Cutting up/together the speech of Aristophanes on the origin of love in Plato’s Symposium, and Adam Vaughan’s 2018 article, Fracking – the reality, the risks and what the future holds published in the Guardian online. Van Roden and JungleQueen embrace the spirit of the cut-up method King, author William S. Burroughs. Bringing these two texts together, queering both and liberating a narrative they collectively share: Don’t frack the Territory, don’t frack the planet. Be like the moon and fall in love with the waters of the earth.