HANLEY a.
  • audio–visual
    • BLOOM: WE'RE GOING TO DIE, 2020
    • Resonant Incantations, 2020
    • The Book of Dream, 2018/19
  • BCSC Residency
    • Junction Re-Sonant
    • BCSC Entry 1
    • BCSC Entry 2
    • 13 Responses
  • Sound Art
    • sirmadamsir: oriented performativity or what does judy want?, 2019
    • ext. track, 2019
    • Milk., 2017
  • Installation
    • H:O:M:E, 2018
  • Performance
    • Exercises i0ㄥ.a+ʇeNsio_01, 2019
    • Dehiscence, 2017
  • Practice-based research
    • On Ambience(s), Decolonising Catastrophe(s) and the Timbre of Bodies, 2019
    • Sonic Entanglements: Bodies of the Valley, 2018
    • People, Bottles and Rivers All Have Mouths, 2017
  • Bio
  • Contact
  • audio–visual
    • BLOOM: WE'RE GOING TO DIE, 2020
    • Resonant Incantations, 2020
    • The Book of Dream, 2018/19
  • BCSC Residency
    • Junction Re-Sonant
    • BCSC Entry 1
    • BCSC Entry 2
    • 13 Responses
  • Sound Art
    • sirmadamsir: oriented performativity or what does judy want?, 2019
    • ext. track, 2019
    • Milk., 2017
  • Installation
    • H:O:M:E, 2018
  • Performance
    • Exercises i0ㄥ.a+ʇeNsio_01, 2019
    • Dehiscence, 2017
  • Practice-based research
    • On Ambience(s), Decolonising Catastrophe(s) and the Timbre of Bodies, 2019
    • Sonic Entanglements: Bodies of the Valley, 2018
    • People, Bottles and Rivers All Have Mouths, 2017
  • Bio
  • Contact
Dehiscence, 2017
5 mins, 31 secs, stereo sound
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Originally composed for 12 channel diffusion and performed at the Design Hub, Melbourne
Dehiscence considers the formation of becoming as a culminating event of complex relations. The composition has been shaped to express the trajectory of botanical dehiscence: water loss from the pod walls of seeds causes the valve cells to shrink and the seeds to expand, transforming elastic energy to kinetic tension, causing the seed pod to burst open. These movements are determined by different timescales, particularly the timescale of water transport through the plant's cells. This work contemplates the (intra)action/s that cut through discrete timescales and that map causal events at cellular and molecular levels to macroscopic responses
With gratitude, I would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and future generations of Wurundjeri people as the Traditional Custodians of the land and waterways of inner northwest Melbourne, where I live today.
Sovereignty has never been ceded.
​It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.




© Amy Hanley 2020
  • audio–visual
    • BLOOM: WE'RE GOING TO DIE, 2020
    • Resonant Incantations, 2020
    • The Book of Dream, 2018/19
  • BCSC Residency
    • Junction Re-Sonant
    • BCSC Entry 1
    • BCSC Entry 2
    • 13 Responses
  • Sound Art
    • sirmadamsir: oriented performativity or what does judy want?, 2019
    • ext. track, 2019
    • Milk., 2017
  • Installation
    • H:O:M:E, 2018
  • Performance
    • Exercises i0ㄥ.a+ʇeNsio_01, 2019
    • Dehiscence, 2017
  • Practice-based research
    • On Ambience(s), Decolonising Catastrophe(s) and the Timbre of Bodies, 2019
    • Sonic Entanglements: Bodies of the Valley, 2018
    • People, Bottles and Rivers All Have Mouths, 2017
  • Bio
  • Contact