Victoria Pham and Joel Sherwood Spring
“TERRA: Memory & Soil”
TERRA: Memory & Soil, is an immersive installation project combining sound, biological-sculpture, architecture and projection.
This collaboration between artists Victoria Pham and Joel Sherwood Spring brings together critical interdisciplinary positions within their respective disciplines of evolutionary biology and architecture, bringing vastly different insights into notions of the built environment, history and legacies of colonialism.
West Space Curator Sebastian Henry-Jones spoke to the artists on the occasion of the work's premiere at West Space, September 2022.
TERRA: Memory & Soil is a 2022 West Space Commission, presented in partnership with Liquid Architecture and Centre for Projection Art.
Victoria Pham is an Australian installation artist, composer, archaeologist and evolutionary biologist. She is a PhD Candidate in Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, holding the Cambridge Trust’s International Scholarship. As a composer she has studied with Carl Vine, Richard Gill, Liza Lim and Thierry Escaich. She is represented by the Australian Music Centre as an Associate Artist.
Joel Sherwood Spring is a Wiradjuri man raised between Redfern and Alice Springs who works across research, activism, architecture, installation and speculative projects. At present, his work focuses on the contested narratives of Sydney’s and Australia’s urban culture and indigenous history in the face of ongoing colonisation.