WA 1828-1988: A Luminary Series of Records Played in Parallel is a newly commissioned projection work created by West Australian artists Sohan Ariel Hays and Benjamin Forster during an enriching four-week residency in the State Records Office of Western Australia.
Passers-by will experience thousands of unique and thought-provoking records abruptly unfolding from the architectural facades of the Perth Cultural Centre this April-May 2012.
This "expanded cinema" work is constructed utilising a diverse series of documents sourced from the State Records Office, on a range of subjects from teh political, through the bizarre, to the everyday. Examining the archives both aleatorically and through constructed narratives, this new work questions how WA citizens understand themselves and their State in the light of history.
Running nightly from April 26-May 13 in the Perth Cultural Centre.
