The Cube - Broken Chord
Broken Chord
Jen Valender
Working with the premise of a broken chord—a chord that is deconstructed into notes played separately—a fractured composition is performed with a disfigured cello for the fire damaged forests of the Blue Mountains.
The artwork aims to re-imagine troubled ecologies between human-nature relationships through ruptured song. It may be read through multiple lenses that of colonisation, feminism, isolation, phenomenology, coexistence, trauma, loss and life cycles.
How do we discuss difficult things while keeping in tune? This is an emotional engagement with the complex history and scars of a landscape. It positions art as a navigational tool to work through dissonance and to find the points at which harmony sits, strikes or sings.
Artwork details
Jen Valender, Broken Chord, 2022, Five channel video, 4:30min DoP & film editor: Gene Alberts
View other works in this exhibition
Under Soil & Skin #1-4 - a series of sculptures in the Discovery Ports
External Score - a sound installation on the North Wall
The Violin Does Not Play the Bow - a video that screens after dusk in The Node