THE LYREBIRD PROJECT – LANDSCAPE AND AMNESIA
David Adamson – performer
Tom Kazas – sound artist
Dr Josephine Scicluna – writer/performer
Dr Patrick Van Der Werf – writer/performer
This ongoing project so far comprises two performance works for sound and voice, recorded at Deakin Burwood in early 2010 for CMII’s Multi-Sensory Place-based Learning Project. The Lyrebird project takes its inspiration from the 1920s text The Land of the Lyrebird, which tracks the destruction of the ‘great southern forest’ of South Gippsland, but more importantly tracks the process of memory and erasure. The two works ‘Under the Forest’ and ‘Ladyswamp’ are linked by the movement of soil from Erosion to Silting.
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TWO AWARDS
* Maria Takolander, who recently signed a two-book contract with Text Publishing, has been awarded a $25 000 Australia Council grant for 'new work' (fiction).
* Jo Langdon, a Geelong-based PhD candidate, has been named a co-winner of the 2011 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize. Jo's supervisors are Maria Takolander (principal); David McCooey (associate); and Michael Meehan (associate). Jo's poetry collection will be published by Whitmore Press in the first half of 2012. This is the second year of the award, and the second time a Deakin student has won. Last year Jamie King-Holden, a Professional and Creative Writing / Literary Studies graduate, won the prize.