An open-ended documentary on the practice of Haines and Hinterding 2019, HD-video, 13:48 min, colour, sound
The work is concerned with listening, observing, and speculating on the energetic and geoelectric nature of rock formations in the Blue Mountains World Heritage Region.
In the spirit of pataphysics, the Grounding Ungrounding follows the artists’ field recording journeys above and below the earth, from rock pagodas, within canyons, to a chondrite stony meteorite. The work is based around extensive field work in the Blue Mountains World Heritage Region and takes as its source of inspiration some of the ideas found in the novel Mt Analogue, by René Daumal, first published in 1959. We listen to a break in the transmissions of chatter and opinion, for a wholly different beat, the geo-electric of the earth, from which we erect sensory mediators. We listen to the massless telluric currents because these are the occulted voices that allow us to get a sense that the earth dissolves into the cosmos. As the climbers of an upside-down mountain, our joys are born from curiosity.
Initially commissioned and presented by Swedish/Australian curators Nina Stromqvist and Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris at Within Deep Time: scratching the surface of the antipode, a screening program at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. (25 May – 7 June, 2019), and as Djup Tid (Deep Time) at Sörmlandsmuseum, Nyköping, Sweden (4 October -17 November 2019 )