Ladder Awry

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Research background: Paul Carter's video installation 'Ladder Awry' was part of 'The Landscape Awry', a two-day event at Tarrawarra Museum of Art and its surrounds. Carter's work was projected onto the wall of the museum on the evening of 13 October.The symposium featured installations and presentations by authors, artists and academics about the ways in which peope "see" the landscape. The event is the first part of a three-part work conceived for Tarrawarra. Research contribution: 'Ladder Awry' was one of three video sequences created by Dirk de Bruyn for 'Landscape Awry'. The sequences are a diary of work-in-progress that explores the role of clothing in identity, an animation of images drawn from a global ladders image data base and a rolling 'ladder text' written by Paul Carter. The title of Carter's work, 'Ladder Awry', conjures up the equipment of salvation in the context of enforced migration to another country while the 'ladder text' explores exclusion and inclusion and the paradox of translation. Research signficance: Opened in 2000, Tarrawarra was the first privately funded, signifcant museum of modern art to be set up under the Australian Government's new philanthrophic measures of 1999. The museum and gardens displays displays Australian art from the mid twentieth-century until the present. The 'Landscape Awry' symposium was convened by the museum's director Victoria Lynn and received financial support from Tourism Victoria and the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV).