
The movement of the aside, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2018. Photograph Christian Capurro

I was reader now (E.D), 2015-2017. Graphite on trace paper, paper, ink, 11 pages, 27.9 x 21cm each Annotations by readers of publications of poems by Emily Dickinson sourced from Australian public libraries. Photograph Christian Capurro

song of an unseen bird, 2015 & 2017. Hand cast aluminium, dimensions various. Photograph Christian Capurro

Wallace Stevens' ‘Description Without Place’, 2018. Perspex vitrine, paper, graphite, colour pencil, ink, tape, post it note, correction fluid, paint 10 pages, 84 x 65 x 8cm vitrine

Yellow painting, 2018. Remnant silk, cotton, thread, 30 x 72cm, folded 26 x 14 x 5cm

No Notes (This is writing), 2015-17 with Francesca Rendle-Short. 152 pages + cover + gate fold wrap, closed 15 x 8cm Composed directly onto an iPhone 5S Notes app. using keyboard and fingers.


The Japanese closes his eyes, lowers his head, and sinks into a long reflection. The Inquirer waits until his guest resumes the conversation. 2015 HD video, stereo sound, monitor 4.23min Japanese translation & voice by Christine Natsumi.

The Blind Task of Sleep (mere listening), 2015. HD video from super 8 film, silent, 01:54min

selected hanging drafts, 2015-2018. Stacked digital prints on paper from re-photographed / photocopied prints on paper, 119 x 84.5cm each




Die lebensfreude (sic), 2014. Transfer on wood veneer, 17.5 x 10cm

Lovers (instrument), 2014. Brass tube, spring steel music wire, 10 & 20mm round silver bells 50 x 21 x 2cm each






Enlightenment (drop curtain), 2018. Hand sewn from remnant kimono silk, cotton, 365 x 448cm. Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity, 2016. Mono sound, speaker, mp4 player, 15:07min. Photograph Christian Capurro
The movement of the aside, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2018 Sound and moving image documentation of doctorate exhibition, 3:11min. Photographs Christian Capurro and the artist.