Repast II – Interactive XR Installation

Reimagining Repast I within the Australian and South African landscape.

Repast II is an adaptation of its predecessor. Redesigned as an open-air installation, centering on the eucalyptus tree, an invasive species present both in Australia, where the work was created and filmed, and in South Africa, where it was exhibited. Repast II is an exploration of ecological entanglement, memory and place.

A custom hand-shaped touch capacitor, inspired by the inner workings of a tree, allows participants to trigger cinematic sequences from a moody Australian landscape filmed on location in South Australia onto a linen sheet and screen, while digital art overlays are projected via projection mapping onto the surrounding eucalyptus trees to extend the boundaries between physical and virtual space.

Featured here are:

• (a) Spier Light Art curatorial notes

• (b) Spier Light Art exhibition map

• (c) List of collaborators

Credits:

Repast II:

·      Co-creator + Creative Director: Nicole Brady

·      Co-creator + Composer: Paul Castles

·      Creative Technologist: Wesley Swanepoel

·      Digital Artist: Piotr Stopniak

·      Experiential Designer: Jean-Jacques Rossouw

·      Cinematographer: Alexander Orlando Smith

·      Drone Photogrammetry: Dean Lever

·      Sound Design + Immersive Mix: Bob Scott

·      Musicians:

o   Alexandra Osborne

o   Rachel Tobin

o   Alicia Crossley