ALYS DAROY
Creative Research
Selected recent creative works.
ANTHROPOIESIS
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Installation featured in Palazzo Bembo at the European Cultural Centre’s Time, Space, Existence exhibition for the Venice Architecture Biennial (20 May–26 November 2023).
Anthropoiesis combined place-based sound recordings captured at intimate and vast scales and narrative adapted from David Farrier’s Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction (2019).
The resulting ‘sound debris’ united organic and human-constructed materialities recorded on sites across Western and Central Australia, along with sonifications of scientific data, spoken word poetry and climate change facts. Sounds traversed contrasting scales and layers of more-than-human existence, from granular to expansive, integrating poetry and performance (Alys Daroy), sound design (Leo Murray), and ecology and design (Joshua Zeunert).
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The 2023 ECC Time, Space, Existence exhibition included 217 projects from 52 countries and attracted 350,200 in-person visitors. The immersive auditory installation played as a room soundscape to Ainslie Murray’s meditation on the temporality of architecture, ‘The Registry of Itinerant Architectures’, and Zeunert’s continental-scale state of Australia’s agri-environment ‘Shallow Roots, Deep Incisions’. The three components provoked and evoked different perspectives on artistic responses to Anthropocenic landscapes, geologic change, and our experiences of their effects.
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OPUS BEETHOVEN
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“I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed to me impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me” – Ludwig van Beethoven, 1802
In 2021, APQ Cellist, Artistic Director and Founder Thomas Rann united with award-winning pianist Vatche Jambazian (piano), Thibaud Pavlovic-Hobba (violin) and Alys Daroy (dramaturg, writer, actor) to mark the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven - enfant terrible, romantic renegade and avant garde genius non plus altra of the 19th century.
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Beethoven’s magnificent oeuvre were illuminated through dynamic and vital twenty-first century experiences that cut to the heart of his music, placing these masterworks in social and historical context via interwoven readings, projections and re-enactments that reveal Beethoven’s own personal and artistic struggles and triumphs.
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Strawberry Hills House London, Emerge Festival London Lates, directed by Felicity Wentzel, feat. Alys Daroy.
Immersive multimedia production of David Finnigan's Scenes from the Climate Era, directed by Alys Daroy, Multimedia by Dannon Wu, Sound Design by Leo Murray, Lighting Design by Tim Brain. Pictured: Tinashe Dzawoma.
"We Are Not Numbers", exhibition by Samiha Olwan, feat. narrative recording and performance by Alys Daroy.