About Me
Scott Morrison is a sound and video artist based in Sydney, Australia. His practice encompasses live performance, gallery installation and festival screenings that have focused towards the synergistic properties of the moving image. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions nation-wide and his audiovisual works have screened extensively nationally and abroad. His primary research and output has fallen under the title of “ballad(s) for quiet horizons”. This body of work details and further develops the artist’s appreciation of Australia’s rural landscape. It is an exploration and abstraction of natural occurrence, rhythmic meditations of place and how familiar experience(s) can be re-interpreted, re-imagined and rendered anew.
delayed update into 2018
2017 was probably biggest project to date.. 2018 working on new slow form works to start – landscapes and extended views out to particular vantages of locations visited. The wonder of the gaze, of looking out, beyond and anew.
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Diomira work in progress with AAO for Melbourne Festival 2017
Always nice to be working with Peter Knight and the great team at the AAO. Working an earlier treatment into a pretty dazzling full concert experience of Peter’s Diomira composition – based and inspired from the gorgeous Invisible Cities.
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Tension Sketch 3 at Images Contre Nature 2017
This festival in Marseille was one of the first to present my work in an international context back in 2004 and I’ve been consistently presenting with them since. I’m sure one day I will be able to attend and share a hello with Claude and his wonderful festival. Thanks again and congrats to another terrific edition Team P’Silo.
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Negative Drone
Always a treat to work with Room 40 and in particular with this treatment for Lawrence English’s new release “Cruel Optimism” A record that hits many sentiments I share and views towards how the world turns current – I guess also in saying as such – Happy New Year, let’s keep our positive and our outwards love more stronger and brighter than ever.
more info here
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Performing Cinema Brisbane
A wonderful selection of works and artists I’m showing with. Many thanks (as always) to the mighty Simone Hine and Kyle Weise for the curation into the wonderful Metro Arts in the Brisbane CBD.
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Villa Waldberta and Frameless Festival, Munich
Unfortunately due to a family matter I’ve had to return home to Australia and not continue with the amazing space/perspectives made available through Daniel Bürkner and Karin Zwack of the Frameless Festival and the staff of the Villa Waldberta artist residency. This also means I cannot present my new live AV show for the Frameless October event. I’m terribly disappointed in not being able to continue what was started and had been built over a near two year development. Sometimes, you need to react to whats truly important and I’m in the right place current. But I cannot thank all involved enough in a truly humbling and inspired experience. Hold those close to you closer than you usually do.
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Hreyfingarlaus at c3 Abbotsford
I have some stills and video showing with c3 gallery at the Abbotsford Convent. This is the first instance of work from my Iceland residency.
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Tension Sketch at Kings (April 2016)
The collected Tension Sketch series 1-6 is showing as solo exhibition with Kings Artist Run through April 2016.
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plume at Sawtooth – Launceston, Tasmania Feb 2016
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2015 closes
Busy year, great year, challenging year. Here’s to a inspired 2016 ahead. Some shows, projects already in the pipeline. Until then I’m spending all of Jan in Iceland. Because why not. Exploring the (available) landscape for month. Updates no doubt to come. Happy New Year!
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ballad(s) at First Draft Sydney in November
The lovely team at Art Proper have included my ballad(s) work “anditexplodedlikestars” for their November show in Sydney. Really beautiful curatorial rationale and great artists involved. Many thanks!
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Water Pushes Sand
The Australian Art Orchestra asked me to create some video loops for the Water Pushes Sand performances for both Melbourne Festival and OzAsia Festival in Adelaide.
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CHURCHIE 2015 EMERGING PRIZE
single channel version of Plume showing in Brisbane as part of the Churchie Emerging Artist Prize. Great group show and really appreciative to be part of. Great winner also!
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Stigmart VideoFocus 2015 Review
Thanks Team Stigmart, how very nice to be included.
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Leather Slate Type
a real honour to create some video for LST- long time fan, long time friend. Happy departures buddy. From his new release – Th Duo. Is amazing.
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frameless festival 2015, Munich
two works from the ballad(s) for quiet horizons series at frameless festival curated by Daniel Bürkner & Karin Zwack
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small choir in London
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2015
So the year is underway. New directions and new thinkings towards how these things get done. 2014 was one of so so so much love and joy amongst those close but what a dark year for the external world beyond. Challenges and tensions continue throughout ongoing as 2015 rolls. I’ve got a bunch works very much in progress as the head and heart wrestle with it all. Be good to one another.
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One Night Install
New install for the acolourfulstorm crew. Peter Van Hoesen no less.
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UPDATE
Doing a short live set for the Project Pixel event as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival on Saturday the 27th at Goodtime Studios. I’ve finished some new edits for my dear friend April Surgent for her new exhibition based on her recent expedition to the Antarctic. I’ll post some video once the show opens in a couple of weeks. Another install for the a colourful storm crew at the Mercat and a project in early December for the pop-up MPavilion at the NGV. Great, fun projects to round out a busy 2014.
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back to work
and with a gusto. working on new edits for the mighty april surgent, whom i had the pleasure of visiting again on my recent trip. check the link, she’s truly great in every aspect. work for the acolorfulstorm crew upcoming also, some solo work and more in the pipeline for the end of 2014 into 2015.
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Returns
amazing, amazing time away. thank you to every friendly face encountered both new and known alike. i’m extremely grateful for such a positive and enriching experience amongst some seriously dark times we live in currently. i aim to take this and work towards making this planet better. thanks world, you did me good.
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small choir at Melbourne Art Fair 2014
Simone and Kyle from Screenspace have curated my 2012 looping video small choir into the MAF video program, image for the link/details.
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Canada in the Summertime
So I’ve escaped the joys of a Melbourne winter and taken up at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. I’m taking daily treks about the place, and so far its pretty damn impressive. Everything here is just a little more hyper and intense than I’ve known. I’m exploring with my camera as I go with intentions for a new body of work to come. It’s amazing how the light is different this side of the world, the trip well supported by the wonderful people at Arts Victoria. Thanks.
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Roundabout Projections
My abstract study dayvan recorder is being showed with the Roundabout Projections crew in Melbourne. Many thanks to the lovely people from Channels Festival for the hook-up.
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The Ferry Gallery, Bangkok
I met the very talented Kawita Vatanayankur a little while ago at her exhibition for Beam Contemporary. I am now very pleased and chuffed to be exhibiting an older (but still very dear) work from the ballad(s) series with her amazing gallery and its inaugural exhibition.
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SPARTAK “on conditions” CLIP
the lovely gents from Spartak i’ve known for ages, they do good stuff. we finally found the time to do something together and it’s found its place with their recent e.p for Feral Media (an ace Oz label) the clips genesis and content came about through a discovery of the AMSR youtube channels. which are quite amazing as it is. anyways, the link below is the clip.
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screening of “we take the wind” 2013 collaboration with Monika Brooks in Marseille, July 2014
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October Sydney shows (x2)
Really chuffed to be returning home somewhat to Sydney town. I’ll be presenting my Chronology Arts Commission with Monika Brooks on Thursday the 3rd at the Seymour Centre, really great team who have organised the program and I know most of the performers also, great company to be working with again. Then the following night on the 4th a solo AV performance for the guys running the Tin Shed Spots evenings within the Architecture Department at Sydney University.
Looking forward to the return of friendly faces and presenting new work, info for each below!
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updates
currently working on a commissioned project with the rather great Monika Brooks (hit the pic above) it’s a collab we’ve wanted to do for ages and has come about in large part to the excellent chronology arts. It’s a full finished AV work for a DVD compilation and performance outcome(s) for the 3rd of October. You can track and contribute to the project, a real treat to be working on for sure.
Queensland Poetry Festival was fun, Lawrence and I made a wonderful racket, I think it went down ok…
Channels Festival is showing small choir in a program, it’s a fantastic event organised via some really great people, if in Melbourne I recommend totally checking it out. They are also running parts of the program with a partner festival, Ikono.
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Brisbane bound late August
a treat as always to be working again with lawrence english. special live performance commission for the queensland poetry festival, test video warps ala above.
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small choir at images contre nature 2013
my work small choir showing at terrific festival in Marseille, France. A wonderful festival who were one of the first to screen my work internationally. super great to be showing with these guys again and as always, wish i was there!
currently prepping and developing a couple of projects that have live performance outcomes for the latter part of the year ahead. great people i’m working with and also in support of. updates to come.
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couple of one nighters…
a couple of small installs for two one-night only affairs. the boys from a colourful storm asked me to create something for the deep dark mercat as they host silent servant.
following this, i’ll be back in brisbane for a project in a city laneway
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updates…
first summer of living melbourne proper has been great and now 2013 is really kicking into gear. working on a new work for a group show at Beam in a couple of months and also some collaborative projects i’ll detail soon enough. I recently spent some chats and emails with the lovely and terrific Jessie Scott. Jessie runs the excellent Tape Projects and contacted me towards her ongoing series Mediums at her PictureSkew website, worth a bookmark for sure, it’s rather prolific and interesting reads always.
I also was written into an article entitled micro-niche for Art Monthly via Jane O’Neill, which was rather cool also. here’s to being busy.
more to come…
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Melbourne Live AV November
I met Kynan Tan earlier this year when in Perth for Liquid Architecture. He asked me a little while ago to present some work as audiovisual performance for an evening at Tape Projects. I’ll be re-working for the most part my Room40 edition, ballad(s) for quiet horizons.
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Small Choir AGE Review and work at New Low
Really chuffed with the responses thus far to small choir. Below is a rather lovely review from The Age via Dan Rule. Thanks! – Brisbane by association perhaps?
The very excellent Tara Cook has curated Dear Stan from the ballad(s) edition into her new group show at New Low, should be a bumper show!
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Delayed Updates
Been a little busy of late. Moved myself down south to Melbourne. Studio set and have had a bunch of projects and life re-arrangements keeping me going no problem. It’s really great to be down here, loads of terrific people I’ve sorely missed constant company with. It’s a little bit great. New work upcoming at Beam, working hard towards. But I guess some kind’ve update would be good.
JAPAN. What can I say. Amazing and wonderful. Beautiful country with fantastic people everywhere. Too short a trip and will hopefully be back again soon. Inspired and amazed, Keiichi, Sanae, Tetsuro, Daiki, Junji and Float. You guys rule and really made my trip.
Since returning, I worked with Lawrence and Werner as part of the Liquid Architecture Festival. Lot’s of fun and the work presented itself well. Was great to have Werner out and more to come in the near future regarding the evolving nature of this work.
I got to meet and collaborate with Marco for Serial Space’s wonderful and inspired Time Machine Festival also. Lot’s of fun and a great person to work with.
I’ll aim to have some visual documentation up in the near future. It’s been a little busy.
New solo work calls.
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Movements, Reviews, One Re-focused
So time for change upcoming, packing my bags current for a move south. Be enjoying you soon Melbourne town. Some additional ballad(s) reviews have come in, my thanks to Peter Lach-Newinsky for the translation on one. I’m in Brisbane this weekend (13th-15th) for another Cage dedication with Lawrence English. It’s a pretty great program in dedication of a wonderful human being. Also, look out Japan, I’ll be visiting your shores come early May. I’m playing a live version of ballad(s) come the 6th, details to come… lots!
‘Let’s imagine Wolfgang Voigt had made video the basis of his gas/lead project – and worked in a more focussed and dense way: then somthing like these six excellent pieces of this debut DVD might have resulted.
Scott Morrison from Sydney – who has already been travelling the international circuit for the last few years – creates moving three-dimensional textures and patterns that take their time in a very pleasant way using simple nature recordings (wind-ploughed meadows, rain in the dark…), montages and mirrorings, flickering cuts (including a Brakhage dedication) and narrow-band focus (including Bokeh effects). Serial, geometric, graphic meditations (no ballads!) in almost unnoticeable, softly breaking arcs which rest in the clarity of their play with natural abstraction: a strongly realised concept. The music? Simply diegetic sound expanded with drone which could, if necessary, have done without the images but only develops true power together with them. Transporting.
multipara’
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a new year, mona foma and some ballad(s) reviews
2012 is off and away, the year is still young and already i’m full on with projects.
MONA FOMA was an absolute treat to be part of, i can’t speak highly enough of this event and thanks to everyone involved. it’s an absolute must not only towards the festival and gallery itself, but also getting down and exploring Tasmania, i am a convert MOFO. Thankyou.
In 2011 I joined the Room40 family, and early this year I’ve joined another, I can’t speak highly enough of Kyle and Simone at Beam Contemporary. My work transmission showed with them last year for their Screenspace gallery, and I’m working on another solo show for them later in 2012. Wonderful people, wonderful gallery. I’m part of a group show mid Feb as they launch their year ahead. Be sure to pop in when in Melbourne town.
I’ve had a couple of reviews come my way recently towards the Room40 edition. See below, thank you for the kind words and time taken to appreciate what i do.
Meraviglioso indeed.
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happy new year
to another busy year ahead. hope it finds you well. my room 40 release ballad(s) for quiet horizons just received a very lovely review from cyclic defrost and mr bob baker fish. humbled by the words and thoughts towards, many thanks.
mona foma is around the corner, another gallery show has been shot out in the woods and many more things ahead. its already a wee dizzying.
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2011 into 2012
has been a rather exhaustive but one of the more productive years of my creative life. so many thanks and shout-outs, thanks to all who have helped this year power on. in particular i’d like to thank lawrence english, bec paton and simone&kyle for providing so much this year. i’m now heading into a (hopefully) fruitful hibernation out bush towards more pursuits for 2012. below be the first of many good things in the year ahead. a happy and safe holiday period ahead to you all. thanks!
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OPEN FRAME
In Brisbane this Thursday launching ballad(s) for quiet horizons
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Sydney Fringe Festival 9th September – 2nd October
I’ve got two works showing at the Seymour Centre for the duration of the festival. oprahagogo and a song around, between and through.
They’ll be playing as shows are at the Seymour, enjoy!
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updates…
so whilst it may seem kinda slow in the sense of how i update, i work busy but the results come about somewhat at a snail pace, but below be some things in the immediate and very near future…
As of Friday the 9th of this month you can check out two works on public display at the Seymour Centre in Sydney, hopefully it’ll make you laugh some. Part of the Sydney Fringe Festival. My thanks to Lew and Larry in getting me to put some work in.
I’m also pretty super excited about to be prepping for this wonderful label. It’s a wonderful result for very much my main focus of making. more on that super soon.
i’ve also been down low in studio over last few months working on a really great project. expect some more updates super soon towards its debut and plans but for now check Lawrence and Werner as they be the super good guys i’ve been working with.
also upcoming a little ahead is more Sydney public art stuff with these crazy kids
oh my, heaps!
i’ll leave this also with two very lovely and important ladies, really superb in their respective fields. enjoy!
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studio bound.
prepping debut release.
prepping upcoming live shows.
upcoming sydney public exhibitions ahead.
also working on big, brain breaking big project with some great people. updates will appear as they do. but for now, enjoy these penguins.
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rather chuffed
great news courtesy of two ace organizations…
rather chuffed and surprised. year and half of projects ahead made all the more easier to manage. thanks!
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transmission in melbourne
screenspace 30 guildford lane melbourne
transmission is a work that expands on my interest in the abstraction and play of the rural landscape. It’s a constantly looping piece that has no defined start or end, rather a cyclical field of wave and motion where the sonic elements being abstractions of the found sound align and depart from the 3-channel deep immersion of natural rhythm encountered.
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