Sandra Selig and Primitive Motion
Infinite Space

15 May 2021, St Patrick’s Church, Fortitude Valley
IMA x Brisbane Art and Design Festival 2021

Infinite Space was a site-specific installation and live performance work that drew on the architecture and atmosphere of the heritage-listed St Patrick’s Church in Fortitude Valley.

Sandra Selig creates artwork that reveals the systems at the edge of our perception. Her work highlights our bodily relationship with space and the interconnectedness of natural and human-made forces through nuanced spatial interventions.

Selig cast St Patrick’s as a vessel for the accumulated sounds, movements, and memories that are contained in spiritually potent spaces. The church acted as a speaker box for the amplification of sound and light—vibrations that spill outward and reverberate infinitely through time and space.

Across the evening visitors were invited to explore a large-scale drawing on the lawn of the church, soak in a live durational musical performance by Primitive Motion (the collaborative project of Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig), and watch light and shadows dance around this atmospheric venue.

This one-night only work was part of Brisbane Art and Design Festival 2021, 7–30 May.

Presented by the Institute of Modern Art in association with Museum of Brisbane. BAD is an initiative of Museum of Brisbane and is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. This event was also generously supported St Patrick’s Church, Fortitude Valley.

Photography: Joe Ruckli