Nearamnewspeak

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: 'Nearamnewspeak, a radio art work, was commssioned by ABC Classic FM's The Listening Room show in 2002. The script was derived from the nine 'Federal Visions' engraved into the surface of Federation Square, Melbourne - words that form an integral part of Paul Carter and Lab Architecture Studio's public artwork Nearamnew. For the radio work, Carter performed the texts along with actors and children. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The nine Federal Visions engraved into the surface of Federation Square can be read from many different directions and the performances of these texts attempts to preserve this 'Cubist' dimension of the original. But the different dimensions are not sharply juxtaposed: they are fluidly elided, overlaid and intermittently distanced from one another, in this way suggesting that amplitude is spatial as well as historical, something like the meeting place of different desire lines represented by Nearamnew itself. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This work achieved peer review (via commission) when it was made for ABC Radio National in 2002. This new exhibiton of the work is another form of peer review. The documentary reached an international audience when it was one of 16 contemporary and historical audio works selected for inclusion in London's Resonance 104.4fm Frequency in Oz: An On Air Festival of Australian Radio Art in September-October 2010. The festival was curated by sound artist Colin Black. http://www.frequencyoz.com/London2010/Frequency_Oz_Event/The_Artists.html