illuminations of created place is WeiZen’s reinterpretation of landscape; where the actions of her body transform the 10m length of materials she has gleaned from walks that some residents from the Willoughby area have shared with her. The performance-installation is WeiZen’s attempt to embody the sense of place via the archive of the feet; walking around the local area of Willoughby, considering the history and significance of the sites she was visiting.
To be in place, is to connect to the diverse observations, memories and beliefs surrounding that created place. WeiZen engaged the local residents of Willoughby who shared their favourite tracks and places, and this has informed her final performance-installation that is made of, and for, the place of Willoughby. WeiZen believes that walking helps to activate the body memory and can elicit stories not just from the present, but can also serve as pathways to memories in other places. illuminations of created place as a performance-installation is also about the imagination of the beginning, the phenomenon of the first landscape. Her methodology insists on the devising process to be of and for place, where she is attempting to rekindle remembrances and shift our perceptions of time, beyond the accustomed chronometric manner.
27 Jan 645pm is the first three-session performance-installation outdoors @ Chatswood Concourse. There will be an undercover site nearby if it rains. More details: https://www.willoughby.nsw.gov.au/Events/illuminations-of-created-place
2nd performance session
Sat 29 Jan 130pm
3rd performance session
Sat 12 Feb 130pm
Contact for more information:
Cassandra Hard Lawrie
Cassandra.Hard-Lawrie@Willoughby.nsw.gov.au
illuminations of created place is part of the Willoughby City Council curated exhibition Parallel Wanderings 双 行 游.
