Informed by their background in Interior Design, Joy’s works explore relationships between people, spaces, and places with a conceptual approach. Coming from a diverse background, Joy is interested in using art and design to amplify different voices in society. Their works are often critical yet emotional, aiming to bring up conversations with the audience, pushing the boundary of the conventional understanding of culture.
A Creek Chat
A Creek Chat is a sound-based temporary public art intervention amplifying the William’s Creek underground waterway in Melbourne’s CBD.
Vinyl stickers, will be installed on the ground close to access holes to the underlying creek. A QR code will link to an audio track so the public can experience a virtual audio layer while observing their current surroundings as they go about their daily commute.
Recordings from different creeks at different times have been blended together and act as a seamless conversation between different waterways with different identities. These creeks may be underground, in pipes, be known as drains or creeks, but they are all labelled by humans – being given a new identity as a way to make sense of the world. If you spend time listening to them, they can sound just the same. They are water, and are all part of nature. A Creek Chat is not a critique of the situation, but acknowledges it, and invites everyone to listen to what creeks have to say to us.