Spencer Harvie

Zonwee: The Last Known Recording of a Daydream, 2019, Single Channel video, 5:43 minutes, colour, stereo

This animated video was created in collaboration with James Barth and was first exhibited at BoxCopy in Brisbane in 2019 as a video installation. The artwork features two characters: one resembling Barth and the other portrayed as a stick figure with a lumpy torso and a metal cone hat, representing Harvie. The video employs a surrealist narrative, with the narrator presenting a collection of loosely connected ideas that align with the animated visuals. Throughout the animation, various elements such as cakes, building blocks, a buried body, and an ominous snail are introduced into world depicted in Zonwee: The Last Known Recording of a Daydream.


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