new work from red shoes

Under Today is an extension of the enquiry into the subject of place, history and memory, which Powell began investigating in her Post-Graduate Diploma at the VCA, from which she produced Upon a River and Then We Might Sleep. This work continued when she came back to Alice in 2004 at which time she instigated the 'place' project with red shoes. The work which was produced by red shoes over the next few years focused on the particular complexities of the urban landscape and social terrain of this remote, yet historically, culturally and geographically significant place.

Under Today was first conceived as part of Shifting Ground 2007: a two-week program of contemporary, visual artistic responses to site, place and community throughout the Alice Springs landscape. The developmental showing took audiences down a laneway and into backyards on the first residential grid on the east side of the dry Todd River (www.wts.org.au/alc/goyder.html).

The development of this work has been funded by Arts NT and the Myer Foundation and is a collaboration between local performers and creative artists and interstate artists who worked together on the seeding stage of this project for Shifting Ground.