I would like to share some wonderful news in this strange time. John Hooper and I have been awarded a BigCi Environmental Award 2020. For this award, we will be participating in a month-long residency at BigCi under our collective name, Pale Blue Dot Collective. BigCi is situated on the edge of Wollemi National Park within the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Greater Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia and offers artists the opportunity to immerse themselves into the Australian bush.

During our residency we will create an immersive sound and visual experience that invites international audiences to create a meaningful connection to the individual life forms of the Wollemi National Park. Through video, photography and sound recording, we will create a time capsule of a moment in history that seems to be a tipping point in the human created deterioration of millions of years of successful evolution. We will photograph and film the night sky, the flora and fauna and landscapes. Using field recordings, we will create a complex narrative sound piece that echoes the sounds of the Blue Mountains.

We are deeply honoured to have received such an award and can’t wait to get there and immersive ourselves in the environment. We will continue our research until we get there.