Past Projects - Installation
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2010 / 2009 /2008 / 2006 / 2004
2011
The Body is A Big Place
Helen Pynor & Peta Clancy
with sound by Gail Priest
The Body is a Big Place by Helen Pynor and Peta Clancy is a new media commission exploring the fluidity between bodily boundaries inherent to the organ transplantation process, the ambiguous boundary between life and death, and the complex and multilayered responses reported by organ transplant recipients.
November 4 - 26
Opening November 3, 6-8
Exhibition open 10am - 5pm
Performances Mon Nov 7 & 21, 5pm (time may vary)
Performance Space
CarriageWorks, Wilson St Eveleigh
www.performancespace.com.au
SNO 72 : Singing with Sines
sound work by Gail Priest

Singing with Sines
in 3 parts—continuous
Part I: test toning (2mins)
Part II: rebeepbeep (4mins)
Part III: eeyeaaehhh (4:30mins)
Headphone soundwork and wall tracing
See documentation
opening July 2, 3-6pm
July 3-31
Friday to Sunday, 12-5pm.
SNO gallery
Level 1, 175 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville
www.sno.org.au
Mobile States Tour
Samuel James: Vivaria
VIVARIA CUBE (excerpt 10 minutes) from Sam James on Vimeo.
four channel video installation by Samuel Jamesfeaturing dancers Martin del Amo, Lizzie Thomson, Georgie Read, Peter Fraser, Linda Luke
with sound by Gail Priest
Touring August/September: Adelaide Festival Centre; Performance Space, Sydney, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Arts House, Melbourne
2010
Samuel James: Amygdala
Amygdala ARTSPACE Aug 2010 from Sam James on Vimeo.
twelve screen/four projector installation reanimating twenty two performance projections from 1997-2009. At Artspace, Sydney (including sound by Gail Priest)exhibted at Artspace, August 2010
http://shimmerpixel.blogspot.com/
Samuel James: Vivaria

exhibited in Gesture - Reeldance Installations #4
video installation by Samuel James
featuring dancers Martin del Amo, Lizzie Thomson, Georgie Read, Peter Fraser, Linda Luke
with sound by Gail Priest
EMPA, University of NSW
June 15-19, 2010
http://shimmerpixel.blogspot.com/
Alex Kershaw: One of Several Centres
video installation by Alex Kershaw
with additional sound design by Gail Priest
Sydney - Performance Space @ CarriageWorks
Feb 12- March 6
http://performancespace.com.au
2009
Urban Runes
multi-channel sound installation with video for solo viewer
Concept, sound, images: Gail Priest
Max/MSP programming: Wade Marynowsky
Video editing: Sam James
This project has been developed in residence at Artspace as the second stage of the the exchange between Artspace and Tokyo Wonder Site.
Exhibited
as part of
Between Site & Space
Artspace March 12-April 13
Heidrun Löhr: Projections, The Archive Project

Gail composed a 15minute looping score to accompany this installation of photographic documentation of contemporary performance scene works over the last 10years.
See RealTime article
Critical Path, The Drill Hall, Sydney,
May 13-17
photos Heidrun Löhr
2008
28 Songs for a City: Tokyo
Tokyo Wonder Site Residency, Aug-Sept 2008
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28 days
Artists: exonemo, Alex Gawronski, Paramodel, Tim Silver, Hiraku Suzuki, Gail Priest
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2006
Alex Kershaw: A Lake Without Water
Multichannel video and sound installation by Alex Kershaw with Scott Otto Anderson & Gail Priest
October 26 - 18 November 18, 2006
Artspace
2004
Sonic Salon: Skin, Blood, Bone

"The body is a liar,
Even blood doesn't tell the truth"
Sonic Salon is an immersive installation created through surround sound, video and presence, exploring the physical infiltration of desire. An intimate experience for the solo viewer, the work aims to heighten the senses and sensuality.
Creator/producer/sound - Gail Priest
Video/space design -
Sam James
Performance Space
June 2004



