Axel Garay

Sik [pronounced seek] is a two channel video work grappling with the polluting forces of an increasingly disembodied, virtual world and the consequences of our delusions on our connection to the planet.

 

The video was presented on the front of the Next Wave building on Sydney Rd, Brunswick as part of a collaboration between Next Wave, BlakDot gallery & Counihan showing projected works for winter (now called Around the Block). 

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Sik is a Meriam (Eastern Torres Strait) word describing the foam that forms between the exposed sand and the waves. We are bubbling at the interface of technological, cultural, environmental and spiritual change and we are creating new folklores.

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Sik is a starting point for a larger artistic exploration on our reliance on the oceans for our connectivity in a virtual, physical and metaphysical sense.