I presented ”Transcend” at the laneways art event “In the Night Garden” in StPeters at Tortuga Studios. In this piece I wrapped myself up with rope and sat for a meditation for almost 2 hours while the process was being filmed and rear-projected on a screen behind me. This experience was for me an expression of how spiritual practice can be bounding and transcending at the same time, allowing the energetic body (or light body/video) to float above me. As if my spirit was trying to escape, the angle of the camera created the illusion that I was staring at the sky on the screen while I was gazing at the crowd in front of me.
Photos Alex Wisser
About Martin Renaud
I am an arts management professional from Québec, Canada who settled in Australia in January 2008. I am currently living in Bondi Beach, Sydney and working as Operations Manager of Flickerfest.
From April 2008 to July 2010 I was Executive Director of Open Channel in Melbourne. Throughout 2009, I was producer and co-artistic director of PULSE, presenting site-specific multimedia performances on Melbourne’s rooftops.
Before settling to Melbourne, I was living Montreal and working as Manager of Videographe Production in 2006-2008. I visited Melbourne twice before for 6 months in 2005-2006 and 2003-2004. I produced various multimedia performances at Dancehouse, Next Wave and Big West Festivals.
