Ilana Russell

Whale Fall is a cross-disciplinary composition for sound, cars, video and dance, asking us to consider aspects of deep time, history, and discontinued lines of production. Developed by dancer and choreographer Rebecca Jensen and set at the site of the Avalon Raceway, Whale Fall connects ideas of fossil fuels and future fossils, confronting ideas of extraction and remains.

Accompanied by composer and sound artist Aviva Endean, and with videography by James Wright from NON Studio, Whale Fall works with choreography as an expanded form, extending the body through machines and sound. Equating scrap metal on rope with soothing wind chimes and corrugated agricultural pipes and cars with majestic aeolian harps crossed with dystopian whale sounds.

Direction, Choreography, Text: Rebecca Jensen
Composition, Sound Design: Aviva Endean
Dancers: LJ Connoly-Hiatt, Hillary Goldsmith, Nasim Patel, David Prakash, Lilian Steiner
Curated by: Ilana Russell
Production: NON Studio
Camera: James Wright, Eugene Perepletchikov
Editing: Rebecca Jensen
Commissioned by: Public Art Commission (Deakin University) & Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Presented with: Front Beach Back Beach

Whale Fall was created on the unceded lands and waters of the Yuin and Kulin Nations.