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MELODY WOODNUTT

CONTENTS

NEXT/work in progress:
_{· The Ship}

A FEW SELECTED PAST WORKS:

INSTALLATION

_{· The Vibraphones}
_{· Sex Space Intimacy
· The Raven
· Collapse

· Apathy and Wonder
SOUND

· Blind Coven
· Hrafn Gáttir Helgisiður
· April is the Cruellest Month

PERFORMANCE AND FILM
· Love and Other Ecologies

· 16mm
· Film collaborations
· Live Art / Small works / EXIST collective}
OTHER
^{· Written Papers and
Archive of Works}
MAJOR LIFELONG PROJECT
_{· The Weight of Mountains}

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Melody Woodnutt is a descendant of the pirate Blackjack Woodnutt, and has rambled around the world before landing in Melbourne, Australia in 2018.

With a deep pull towards unknowable realms such as the sea, cosmos, or spectral worlds, alongside explorations in love/intimacy, societal allegory, poetics, and the nature-culture symbiosis, the consequent artworks drift into otherworldy territories in parallel to real encounters.

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Melody Woodnutt is a contemporary artist working within the expanded field of 16mm analogue moving image film. Artworks take form as kinetic or cinematic installations, still images, or short films that function as portals or 'topias to distill broader societal complexities into quasi-fictional worlds and allegories. Imagery and objects are used to convey poetic meanings tied to society, time, spectrality, cinema, and romantic conceptualism that comes together as bricolage-worldmaking though expanded cinema practices.

Melody's films are often made from an eco-feminist and alchemical feminist position as default (alongside bio-art's concept of “witches in labs”). She is currently an exhibiting member of Artist Film Workshop - an ARI and film lab for analogue small gauge film. Biennially, she is the artistic director of international film platform and residency, The Weight of Mountains, which uses film as research in-the-field to explore psycho-geographies and connections between humanity and environment over temporal and geographic dis/connects.

Works have been shown with NGV/Melbourne Design Week, PICA (Oregon), Melbourne Fringe (Keynote curated by Emily Sexton and Martyn Coutts) and a variety of film festivals or venues in Melbourne, Brisbane, Dublin, London, as well as across multiple locations in USA, UK, Canada, Iceland, and Morocco. Supported with grants from Arts Queensland, Youth Arts Queensland, Menningarráð Norðurlands Vestra (Iceland), Vaxtarsamnigur Norðurlands Vestra (Iceland), Rannis Innovation+Research Triennial Funding (Iceland), and Kulturkontakt Nord (Baltic/Nordic EU). Alongside positions as Director for Nes Artist Residency (Iceland); Artistic Direction and Regional Development Advisor for Thekkingarsetur Iceland (a research and development organisation under the Icelandic Ministry for Education and Culture); consultant for The Icelandic Textile Center (Iceland), Artistic Director of The Weight of Mountains (global ARI); Co-Director of Exist Live Art and Performance Art Collective (Australia); curator of the Summer We Go Public Festival (Iceland) and Site Exploratory Arts Festival (Iceland).

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cloak for transitions and seasonal pagan meditation, hand crafted with fibres of black lambs fleece (2016 @ The Icelandic Textile Center, model: Laura Madeline)

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Ongoing: Filmmaking

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Current work: The Ship

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Durational Research: The Weight of Mountains