Chantelle Mitchell (VIC) and Jaxon Waterhouse (NT) are long term collaborators, working together as Ecological Gyre Theory, a multidisciplinary artistic research project.
This project manifests as curatorial practice, experimental writing, sculptural and installation practice and academic research.
In 2023, Chantelle and Jaxon were the Monash University Art, Design and Architecture Gallery Curators in Residence, presenting three exhibitions and a series of programs with Australian and international artists in consideration of concepts drawn from the theoretical frameworks of anthropologist Tim Ingold. They have published widely across contemporary theory and ecology.
Together, they were co-directors of Ordinance, a contemporary arts space in Narrm.
Hydrophonic Resonance City of Melbourne, Test Sites Program 2023
Hydrophonic Resonance (Babble) is an interactive installation work in a testing phase, which seeks to create a moment of intimate encounter with waterways — specifically the Birrarung.
Utilising a hydrophone placed into the river, and a rewired Telecom phone, this work creates the framework for a private. Given the complex ecological and industrial histories, presents and futures of Docklands, the harbour and the Yarra, this work encourages considerations of the ways in which time, ecology, industry and place cohere and unfurl in the movements of tides, sediments, aquatic flora and fauna.
