Welcome toRCS 2023

We are delighted to welcome you to Research Creation Showcase 2023, proudly presented with the support of Western Sydney University's School of Humanities and Communication Arts, the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre and Blue Mountains City Council. This is the eighth iteration of our Showcase and the first to be held in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains.

Exhibition

CUTBACK
Dr Rachel Bentley
CUTBACK explores the phenomenal rise of Australian street artists and the tensions between street credibility and gallery recognition.
Music HDR Projects
Diana Blom
Luna Yoga - Cosmic Mood Music
Diana Blom, Noel Burgess
Munro/Culdesac
Noel Burgess
In The Fields
Noel Burgess, Diana Blom
New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal
Michelle Catanzaro, Dinusha Soo, Luigi Di Martino, Pip Collin, Judith Bessant, Rob Watts, Stewart Jackson, Faith Gordon
The Spirits of Tasi Tolu
Dr Wendy Chandler, Dr Andrew Sully
Breathing Materiality of Spirit and Being
A/Prof Bruce Crossman, Dr Kate Fagan, Dr Hyelim Kim, Prof Yi Jiyoung, Pedro Velasco
The High Malar
David Julian Cubby
Here's Looking at You Kid
Dr Kalika Navin Doloswala
The photographic installation work, explores the boundary between what is invisible to the human eye but visible to machinic and algorithmic processes in artwork based on image based neural network processing.
Ed Kuepper’s Honey Steel’s Gold
John Encarnação
Visualising Empathy: An Alchemist in the Landscape
Dawne Fahey
Visualising Empathy: An Alchemist in the Landscape embodies an intense curiosity as Fahey seeks to find emotional depth between abstracted landscapes, the materiality of cold wax and oil paintings, and evocative full-colour infrared photographs.
Living Laboratories, Research Storytelling and Creative Practice
Maryella Hatfield, Vincent Tay, Dr Leo Robba
Partnership pedagogies, cross disciplinary learning, and research. How are these working in practice at WSU?
Spirit They've Vanished.
Josh Honeyman
Over the last few months a strip of nature along a bike track next to the highway has been chainsawed, and bulldozed. The price of progress to widen the highway to enable cars and trucks to travel in greater numbers through the Blue Mountains. These paintings are a small helpless lament for the loss.
The Ecotone: Visualising Cross-talk of ‘The Gully’ - Deep Listening on Gundungurra Country
Dr Greg Hughes
The Ecotone: Visualising Cross-talk of 'The Gully' project intricately weaves together colour, form, sound, and motion observed during my visits to 'The Gully,' processing it alongside weather data from the location and time.
Sound Skates
Dan Johnston
Sound Skates immerses participants within a soundscape of skate spaces where audio cues are the dominant sensory inputs which allow the audience appreciate the differences in type, structure, geographic location, and culture.
Writing the River: Stories for the Hawkesbury-Nepean
Hannan Lewsley, Jen Dollin, Brittany Vermeulen, Michelle Ryan
This interdisciplinary project seeks to reorient scales of value for the Hawkesbury-Nepean by developing narratives that speak to our individual experiences and various engagements with the river.
Coming Home to Me
Rachel Morley, Milissa Deitz, Vincent Tay
This collaborative film brings together academia, advocacy and lived experience to champion young people in foster care.
What the River Doesn't Say About Itself
Dr Daniel Portelli
Along a river on surrounded by branches and root systems of a mangrove forest, musicians drift on a boat performing music and engaging in eco-acoustical awareness, sensory activation, and perceptual openness as a form of forest therapy.
Insomnia
Behrad Rezaei
Insomnia is an auto-ethnographic case study that explores hybrid media's affordance in visualising sleep disorders.
HCA/HIE VR LiDAR model of The Driftway, Richmond and EucFace Experiments HIE
Kate Richards, Paul Rymer, Andrew Leahy, Jos Gatto, WSU PX Students 2022
This interactive VR depicts and interprets 2 x key HIE sites being The Driftway, Richmond, and the EucFace experiments.
Drawing for Creativity, Confidence & Connections
Dr Janet Saunders
The Giant Doodle, initiated at Western Sydney University Open Day 2023, began as a fun activity to bring students together. For many of these young individuals the last 3 years was marked by societal upheaval and isolation as substantiated by post-Covid mental health research.
Drawing to Heal
Dr Janet Saunders
Janet’s ongoing drawing research and image-making practices explore the external with the internal using a pencil and stylus to travel across the underlying images, meticulously scanning and scrutinising every contour, seeking, and responding to hidden anomalies.
Stop War
Reza Taghipour
Stop war. No truth is proven through war. Peace is the only path to true victory. As Martin Luther King Jr. said: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
WeatherState
Dr. Sarah Waterson
WeatherState is an ongoing project that critically investigates senses of place within the vast heterotopias of the world oceans.