Sally Dennis

Every Entheo
Synopsis:
The video project ‘Every Entheo’ aims to artistically discover, document and explore patterns of experience that may potentially be inherent in entheogenic experiences. By filtering the visual and aural elements through the lens of my video practice I hope to create an artwork that collates and joyfully expresses tangible patterns present in responses, concepts, aural tones, words, feelings, gestures, or any visual or aural terms that become apparent within the video content.
The work will maintain a hand held aesthetic by being casually collected when roving the EGA site, taking in essence the forms, colours and sounds present. While the documentation material will be structured by asking individuals attending the 2011 EGA conference to respond to an identical series of predetermined questions. As this process relies on the individual reaching a level of comfortability in sharing personal material, the visual focus will steer away from recognizable faces and instead draw upon other possible forms of video interview and my artistically based editing process to create abstracted results.
Ultimately this work entails gathering as many responses as possible over the 4 days and will result in a quantifiable artwork based on the amount of material collected.
Bio:
Sally Dennis is an emerging visual artist, working and living in Northern NSW. Since completing a BFA (Visual Arts) at Queensland University of Technology she has been building a hybrid practice based on an exploration of video, sound, installation, drawing and photography. She engages with video media through investigating her encounters with visual and aural elements garnered through two processes, gather and edit. By editing and reconstructing she harnesses the mutable qualities of digital video, allowing the works to go beyond the everyday content, and push against our perceptions of contemporary existence. Responding directly to life around her, any stimulus becomes fair game. Using intuition and memory as a guiding force her work becomes a reflection of patterns established in the every, and not so everyday.