Descent Into Yarragadee: In Conversation (2017)

Artist Talks

Unravelling our relationship with the ancient Yarragadee aquifer.

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Sohan Ariel Hayes, and artist and creative producer, Erin Coates, unraveled our relationship with the ancient Yarragadee aquifer. Thank you to all who attended this in depth discussion about the immensity of the body of water and our connection with it.
 

About the Artists

Sohan Ariel Hayes
 

Sohan Ariel Hayes is a Perth-based media artist known for large-scale projection installations. Hayes’ practice is defined by the ability to open pockets of wonder within the world and at the same time push the envelope to engage with darker sensibilities.

In 2010, he collaborated with Yindjibarndi Traditional Owner Michael Woodley and Juluwarlu for International Art Space, producing BirndiWirndi–Worlds Apart, a site-based digital projection in Roebourne. In 2012 Hayes collaborated with senior Martu painter Yunkurra Billy Atkins to create the acclaimed animation Cannibal Story, which toured nationally with We Don’t Need a Map and Experimenta, and was screened in numerous international film festivals including, Tampere Film Festival, Finland (2014); Edinburgh Film Festival (2013); and Origins: Festival of First Nations, London (2013).

Hayes was the Media Artist in 2016 and 2017 for the Perth Festival opening events. HOME in 2016 was followed by Boorna Waanginy: The Trees Speak in 2017, which saw 110 000 visitors walk through an immersive art experience as the trees of Kings Park were transformed into a cathedral of light and sound.

Recently Hayes animated the blazing landscape paintings of Martu artist, Ngamaru Bidu for Walyja Ngurra at Fremantle Arts Centre; and worked with acclaimed Director Lynette Wallworth on the short film Cloud Story (2016).
 

Erin Coates

Erin Coates is a Perth-based curator, creative producer and artist. She is current Special projects Coordinator at Fremantle Arts Centre, where she co-curated We don't need a map: a Martu experience of the Western Desert, in 2012, which went to tour nationally from 2014 to 2016.

Other curatorial projects include; Light Geist at Fremantle Arts Centre in 2016; The Cars That Ate Perth, Spectrum Project Space, 2013; and Rumblestrip, a night-one exhibition in an abandoned car park in Perth in 2016.

Erin's creative practice is defined by a cross-disciplinary approach and she often collaborates with specialists from other fields, including engineers, architects, sound artists and scuba divers. Her work spans video, installation and drawing and is shown in both galleries and film festivals, including the major survey exhibition The National: New Australian Art, held across the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in 2017.

Erin is the recipient of several awards and commissions, including the 2017 John Stringer Prize and the Catalyst: Katherine Hannah Visual Arts Commission in 2014, which resulted in the solo exhibition Kinesphere at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and the publishing of an artist monograph.
 

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