Cleanse is a video and audio installation developed as part of the Centre for Media Arts Innovation Memory Flows exhibition. Funded by the Australia Council, and exhibited on the riverfront at Newington Armory to over 2,700 visitors in May/ June 2010, Memory Flows features the work of 20 media artists examining Australia’s complex relationship with rivers. In Cleanse, peaceful river scenes give way to unease, as increasingly disturbing memories of growing up near the Parramatta river are evoked, and contentious histories are revealed. More…
Heyward "Cleanse" video still, 2010