Emily Naya Schorowsky
'Dogs at the Park' 2024, Video, 2:14 min, dimensions variable.
Artist statement
This work explores the parallels between human and animal communication methods. Sound and text accompany a familiar scene; dogs playing at a park. Movements are analysed and stripped down to bleeding saturated colours, mirroring fleeting impressions. Flawed speech patterns and grammatical mistakes are observed and dissected through sound and text components. Domestic, simple phrases and repetition are in tension with academic language, mirroring the intertwined relationship I have with my mother tongue and second language.
Acknowledgement of Country
UNSW School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
