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Tera echo, 2025

Daisy Dale Collier

Multimedia installation, dimensions and duration variable.

Tera echo is an ongoing project that responds to carceral cultures with creative action, performed indeed as a ghost in the machine. The contemporary works for this exhibition fuse sound, video, installation, expanded painting, and performance residue. Each piece was created while reflecting on the Australian government's Kangaroo Harvest Management Plan. These works incorporate mottled money bags, concrete clap sticks, contact microphones, data and digital delay, steel bars, earth pigments, and self-triggering solenoids. They form an assemblage of thought, text, and image, with which to consider the matter of substance and technical function of two different kinds of joy.

Tera echo is an exhibition that amplifies the artist’s fractured voice and fragmented image, subverting the byproducts of ongoing government intervention. It questions the inefficacies of the industrial complex and concrete systems by engaging with the living spirit of resistance and the counterweighted force of embodied knowledge. The resulting elements—such as skin and bones, recycled and reclaimed materials, consumer waste plastics, and tanned raw-hides and pelts—are presented as gifts of entanglement that grapple with the repercussions of trauma and grief, memory, and healing. The creative outcomes for this exhibition were produced according to specific rites and rituals of reclamation, ecosocial belonging, and geo-cultural transformation. Tera echo is an ongoing experiment and creative intervention that reverberates across the chasm of settler colonial damages done and Indigenous Futures yet to come.

about the artist

Daisy Dale Collier is a queer koorie artist and writer who embraces the humour and humility of survival and belonging in a schismatic deep-fake post-truth context. Their practice fuses sound, video, installation, and performance in response to psychopolitics and global conditioning. While critically charged with ecosocial interruption, their work offers sustainable and spirited challenges to the depravities of discipline and the complacent settler colonial carceral logistics of contemporary art. Daisy’s submergent approach and unapologetic critique forms part of an ongoing search for futures that haven’t already been redacted and/or destroyed.

Daisy’s work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Ramsay Art Prize (2019) and the Parliament of NSW King & Wood Malleson Contemporary ATSI Art Award (2018). They have presented work with Yapang Museum of Art and Culture, The Lock-up Artspace, Bus Projects, SEVENTH gallery, Rabbit Poetry, Memo magazine, and UNprojects.

Read more about Daisy’s work here.