Torrent - the endless storm

BACKGROUND The representation of natural environment in art practice, is an enduring and topical theme both historically and in current contemporary practice. Moving image works such as Eva Koch's I am the River 2012 and Broersen & Lukács, Mastering Bambi, 2010, are international contemporary artworks exploring our changing relationship to the natural environment mediated through cinema and video. These works rely on the fidelity and mimesis only possible by technological advancements in projection as a spectacle of comparison in the absence of the real thing, the natural environment. CONTRIBUTION Torrent- the endless storm is a night projection work to compliment the exhibition Torrent. The intent of this work was to evoke the kinetics and movement of a natural phenomena (movement of the ocean) in a very reductive and stylised form of representation, suggesting other forms of mediated representations of nature such as TV animation, desktop screensavers as well as the many allegorical ideas pertaining of the flow of water, in particular the BitTorrent or Torrent file of illegal online downloading sites. SIGNIFICANCE Torrent - the endless storm was commissioned for the Centre for Contemporary Photography night window during the Melbourne Festival Oct 2015 and has also received funding assistance from the City of Yarra and Melbourne Festival.