Emerging in the early 2000s as an experimental musician, Brisbane-based artist Ross Manning shifted his artistic focus from performance to installation in the intervening years, transitioning from a practice focused on playing instruments with obvious interfaces to working with site-specific locations and seemingly inert materials he coaxes sounds and experiences from. These installations embody processes of transference and translation, harnessing invisible energies and rendering them into soundscapes, refracted light configurations, and moiré patterns.
Vibrations of the Pacific