WinterLIVE: Ecological Adaption

Ecological Adaptation is a transdisciplinary, durational performance installation that explores the interconnections between humans, nature, and technology. The installation forms an entangled, immersive space where audience members move through and within the environment, surrounded by layers of technology, performance, and ecological imagery that coexist and respond to one another. Ecological Adaptation builds on a long-term collaboration between Yandell Walton and digital choreographer Harrison Hall, and a creative team including real-time artist Liam Somerville, sound artist Patty Preece, lighting designer Nick Moloney.

Ecological Adaption is presented as part of Laundry Sessions — a curated program of sound art, experimental practice and visual storytelling unfolding across Abbotsford Convent’s Magdalen Laundry.

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About

Yandell Walton is a multi-award-winning artist based on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne. Creating site-specific installations in both public and gallery contexts, she has become recognised for immersive moving-image works that merge architectural space with technology in unexpected and unprecedented ways. Walton often repurposes technologies to create environments that blur the boundaries between physical and digital experience, exploring ideas of impermanence, ecological fragility, and human entanglement with more-than-human worlds. Her practice spans moving image, real-time systems, motion capture, and experimental digital workflows, forming installations where mediated landscapes feel simultaneously embodied and ephemeral.
Walton is currently undertaking a PhD in Fine Art at the University of Melbourne, where her research examines cross-species embodiment and distributed agency within computational media art. Recent projects include When We Are One, presented at the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) 2024 and Re:Cultivate research residency in partnership with Australian Network for Art and Technology.

Audience Warning

This performance includes some strobing and low light.

Presented by Abbotsford Convent as part of WinterLIVE.