Rehearsing catastrophe: the Ark in Avoca (video version)

This single screen video engages with contemporary concerns of the documentary film genre, combining the traditional poetic (Dziga Vertov) with live unrehearsed coverage of an event (sporting events) using ambient light (car headlights, torches etc) and pre-performance portraits of participants staged for the video work and intercut through editing. This was the first work in a developing relationship between Federation Square and The Avoca Project in presenting works made in Avoca then shown to a different (Melbourne) audience. It thus extends the reach of the project from regional to urban, providing a greater sense of community between both in addressing important concerns. Several hundred people watched in the square as it was shown twice. It was supported with a grant from the Australia Council (Community Cultural Development). Following the Relational Aesthetics that govern The Avoca Project generally, this research methodology is here extended to the documentary form of video production to create new knowledge in communication adaptation in this field. An event is here `recorded¿ but participants are also formally recorded beforehand. These 2 forms are edited together to create a work for a different context in order to extend the project /the discussion through a different medium.本单屏视频紧扣纪录片类型的当代核心议题，融合了传统诗意纪录片（季加·维尔托夫（Dziga Vertov））的创作手法与未经排演的体育赛事实时纪实内容，创作中采用了环境光（车头灯、手电筒等）照明，并将为该视频作品专门拍摄的参与者赛前肖像与纪实内容通过剪辑进行交叉混剪。 该作品是联邦广场（Federation Square）与阿沃卡项目（The Avoca Project）合作关系中的首部作品，二者旨在将在阿沃卡创作的作品呈现给另一批受众（墨尔本本地观众）。此举将项目的传播范围从区域拓展至城市，在回应重要议题的同时，强化了两地社群间的联结。该作品曾在广场放映两次，吸引了数百名观众到场观看。 本作品获得了澳大利亚艺术委员会（Australia Council）社区文化发展（Community Cultural Development）项目的资助。 依托阿沃卡项目整体遵循的关系美学（Relational Aesthetics）理念，本研究将其创作方法论拓展至视频纪录片创作领域，旨在为该领域的传播适配研究创造新的知识成果。本作品一方面对一场活动进行纪实记录，另一方面也提前对参与者进行正式肖像拍摄，随后将这两种形式的素材通过剪辑整合，为全新的展示场景创作作品，以期通过不同媒介拓展项目的核心议题与讨论空间。