In ‘Thunderhead’, Tina Havelock Stevens presents a series of video works accompanied by improvised sound scores – guitar riffs and drum beats, sometimes recorded, sometimes performed live – that elicit emotional responses attuned to the rhythm and movement of the built and natural environments that we encounter. Stevens is drawn to spaces and landscapes poised between decay and survival. Works depict boneyards where stripped carrier planes are left to weather, as well as wrong turns and chance encounters with meteorological systems on desert highways, and public acts of homage.
Tina Havelock Stevens, Let’s Groove, 2020, installation view at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Photograph: Bo Wong. Courtesy the artist and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
9 February to 19 April 2020
Western Australia
