Behind the mountain

This collaborative video installation presents floor projections in randomly scattered blank cardboard boxes, encased within the borders of each the image of a moving figure of a mixed Aboriginal demographic, confined and enclosed in the space through the image size. The viewer moves in amongst and interacts with these images, their shadow visible over the image as they lean to look into each box. The figures within, dancers filmed from the Bangarra Dance Company, contort and rotate in the limits of the space, pulling inwards and pushing outwards, visually and spatially engaging in the historical and contemporary forces which construct and confine the Aboriginal body. In interaction with these images the use of a surround sound composite creates an aural journey that evokes pulsing electrical currents in a storage space, interrupted sporadically by the sound of tearing packing tape and a strong bass sound from below each box which creates a sensorial engagement with the movement in the images within.