Dr Christian Thompson..
Visual artist Christian Thompson has received Acmi.s inaugural Mordant Family Vr commission, worth $80,000.
Thompson is formally trained as a sculptor, but also uses mediums such as photography, video, performance and sound in his work.
The Acmi commission, created in partnership with arts philanthropists Simon and Catriona Mordant and the City of Melbourne, will allow Thompson to extend his practice into virtual reality for the first time.
Thompson's proposed work, Bayi Gardiya (Singing Desert), will invite the audience to walk through the landscape of his childhood, where they will see him singing in his traditional Bidjara language - a language that has been recognised as extinct.
.This is an exciting initiative for Australian art and I am honoured and humbled to be awarded the inaugural commission,. said Thompson..
Thompson was selected by a panel that included Rebecca Coates, director of the Shepparton Art Museum; futurist and entrepreneur,...
Visual artist Christian Thompson has received Acmi.s inaugural Mordant Family Vr commission, worth $80,000.
Thompson is formally trained as a sculptor, but also uses mediums such as photography, video, performance and sound in his work.
The Acmi commission, created in partnership with arts philanthropists Simon and Catriona Mordant and the City of Melbourne, will allow Thompson to extend his practice into virtual reality for the first time.
Thompson's proposed work, Bayi Gardiya (Singing Desert), will invite the audience to walk through the landscape of his childhood, where they will see him singing in his traditional Bidjara language - a language that has been recognised as extinct.
.This is an exciting initiative for Australian art and I am honoured and humbled to be awarded the inaugural commission,. said Thompson..
Thompson was selected by a panel that included Rebecca Coates, director of the Shepparton Art Museum; futurist and entrepreneur,...
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