One of the challenges that Ian Strange pursues with his art is that of defending Australia’s rural landscapes from the ferocious urban redevelopment that is encompassing in the metropolises areas that until a few years ago were inhabited by a few people dedicated to tending their vegetable gardens.
The latest installation, entitled Dalison, a few kilometres from Perth, also attempts to defend one of the last remaining houses in Wattleup (at 20 Dalison Avenue), a suburb affected by the Latitude 32 industrial project. The Australian artist, who also addressed this theme in his last installation LIGHT INTERSECTION II, rented one of the two remaining houses in Wattleup for six days, creating a project in collaboration with music producer Trevor Powers, aka Youth Lagoon.

Ian Strange choreographed Powers’ music for three nights, with a lighting performance projected onto an 8×32.5 metre big screen, placed above the house as if it were a visual for a big concert. The operation will lead to the creation of four photographic projects, but above all to an 18-minute short film in which the project will be told.
Strange aims to rethink the concept and meaning of home by elevating an old wooden house, about to be demolished in the coming months, as a mausoleum of an era that is about to end. Power called the performance an “anti-concert, a music carved out of a field“, to which the artist combines a contrast of instability and resistance.
The driveway and garden of the house will soon give way to more modern buildings or a super street, Ian Strange has tried to stop this flow of modernity, suspending reality through music. Soon the video of the project will be published online by the artist.