Acknowledgement of Country
My arts practice is conducted on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I have also had the privilege to work on and learn from the lands of the Boon Wurrung/Bunurong people, the Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung people, the Eastern Maar and Wadawurrung people, and the Gulidjan and Gadubanud people. I pay my enduring and great respect to their ancestors, their Elders past and present, and to all those I have the pleasure of working and connecting with.
As a descendent of Irish/Scottish/Cornish/German/Norwegian settlers, I am deeply grateful to live and work on the land of the Traditional Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Custodians. I acknowledge their ongoing and crucial stewardship of Country that never ceased despite settler violence and occupation. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Always was, always will be, Aboriginal Land.
Ecological Sound Artist
Specialising in:
Soundwalking
Installation
Field Recording
Performance
Composition
Collaborative Workshops
With experience as a performer, artist and creative workshop leader, J A Pinney produces physical and conceptual artworks exploring the amplification of human emotional experiences of the natural world. Pinney is interested in art that highlights natural environments and encourages close attention to the way specific locations sound, whilst also considering the ecological, cultural, historical, and emotional importance of such sounds and landscapes.
Their artwork develops imagined soundscapes, ways of listening, and narratives based on the experiences of non-human animals in their natural environment and how humans can reconceptualise these experiences through dreams, imagination, and fantasy.
Portfolio of Works
Available to Purchase
Solitary Soundwalks ‘Wilson Reserve’ takes a solitary audience member around the main looping River track within ‘Wilson Reserve’, ‘Ivanhoe’, ‘Victoria’, Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country, along with six additional strange detours.
This guide asks a solitary Soundwalker to move intentionally and as silently as possible through the environment. What noises do you make despite your best efforts? What noises can you hear that you may not want to? Consider your impact, both physical and audible, on the environment and all of its many and varied inhabitants – no ‘one’ more important than any ‘other’. With that in mind, ‘who’ is used throughout this guide to refer to any living thing; human, bird, mammal, insect, or even plant nearby. In walking intentionally, the sensory, cultural, and ecological qualities of an environment and all its inhabitants can be perceived. All animals here (including humans) become equal in their capacity to sense, feel, interact, and experience.
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