Stars in Disguise

Portraiture and costume as celestial camouflage — figures veiled in light, texture and invented astronomy. Stars in Disguise explores how identity, myth and science fiction can dress the body as a temporary constellation.

Portraiture and costume as celestial camouflage — figures veiled in light, texture and invented astronomy. Stars in Disguise explores how identity, myth and science fiction can dress the body as a temporary constellation.

A body of work built around transmission — signals sent outward toward the night sky. Signalling the Stars gathers performance, apparatus and video into a conversation with distance, waiting, and the desire to be answered by the cosmos.

A collaborative field search with Pip Stafford — looking for space not only above us, but in the gaps between people, places and instruments. Documentation, gesture and landscape fold into an art-scientific expedition.

Helium Balloon Launch #5 — Smartphone Satellite Love Letter to the Universe TEST #1 (SSLLUT #1): a FaceTime-to-the-universe balloon satellite launched from Contemporary Art Tasmania.

The Hammer Levitation video: a month-long daily experiment dropping a hammer and a feather to see if magnetic polarity could be reversed.

A visual lexicon for Artist Run Scientific Enterprises — emblems, diagrams and portraits that invent an institutional language for art-science. Iconographies collects the marks, symbols and stills that brand this speculative enterprise.