Dusk
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Shonah Trescott (Australian, b.1982): Artist
Osvaldo Budet (Puerto Rican, b.1979): Artist
Production date
2022
About this object
This video, Dusk, 2022, was donated to the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection by the artists Shonah Trescott and Osvaldo Budet. After living and working overseas in Germany, the Arctic, Puerto Rico and the USA for many years, Trescott (who was born in Maitland) and Budet (born in Puerto Rico) are now based in Maitland. Together and separately, they work across many mediums creating work with a social conscious, that interrogate and comment upon environmental issues and the climate crisis. In this video, which they describe as a scene from a “radical future”, a quiet, moody, purple dusk, enhanced by the song of crickets and birds, is overtaken by the horn and lights, the clinks and clangs and engine hum of a coal train as it rolls along the tracks and around the bend. Once the train is out of view the scene becomes still and the crickets and birds can be heard again singing over the empty tracks. This video was selected for #ARTSPEAKSOUT as part of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt and depicts a future, when the last ever coal train rumbles through our region and featured in the 2023 MRAG exhibition Upriver Downriver.
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Aspect ratio: 16:9
Jump drive - customised black 'coal look' cover with title, unsigned
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