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Benjamin Woods support material for Creative Australia Application 2026
00:00 to 03:02
Wind Throb (Sharing) [Excerpt], 2025
Presented at Conduction, 251 Barkly Street, Footscray 3011 on Saturday 2nd August, 2025, 5-7pm. Conducted by Benjamin Woods with Emily Zou, Jacqui Gordon, Ria Soermardjo, Vanessa Chapple, Yongping Ren, Debris Facility Pty Ltd and more. Photo and video documentation by Ross Coulter.
03:03 to 03:47
Beeswax Flutes [Excerpt], 2018
Presented as part of Why Listen to Plants? presented by Liquid Architecture x RMIT Design Hub.
03:48 to 05:11
Benthic Community Flutes Sketch 1 (Sandy Ghost Shrimp) [Excerpt], 2021
This is a sculptural and sound work-in-progress that has been made with the inter-tidal flows of Moonee Ponds Creek in mind. Video and audio material has been generated during a residency at S-t-u-d-y.space, Brunswick, 4-18 May 2021. This is a work-in-progress, which also takes place alongside and within the larger context of the ongoing Tributaries Collective (Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Benjamin Woods). This sketch of Benthic community flutes includes blown glass flutes inspired in part by the burrows of the sandy ghost shrimp, alive in Naarm/bay.
05:12 to 07:27
Benthic Community Flutes Sketch 2 (Snapping and Sandy-ghost Shrimp, Swamp Scrub, Mussel) [Excerpt], 2023
Field recording, performance documentation, digital video and stereo audio, 14min 57sec, performance videography by Elena Betros-Lopez, courtesy of the artist.
Presented as part of Figuring Ground, curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk for Grafton Regional Gallery.
Catalogue writing:
'Benthic Community Flutes Sketch 2 (Snapping and Sandy-ghost Shrimp, Swamp Scrub, Mussel) has been made alongside the inter-tidal flows of Moonee Ponds Creek and its conjunction with the great Birrarung/ Yarra River, Wurundjeri Country. This sketch includes blown glass flutes inspired by the burrows of the sandy ghost shrimp, field recordings of snapping shrimp and mussels at the meeting area of Moonee and Birrarung, beeswax flute recordings, and sand structures. Benthic communities are complex inter-tidal ecosystems of flora and fauna that live in waterways and coastal areas. The glass flutes are an expression of subterranean organisms that produce porous thresholds of ground, water, and organic matter, with the work being formed in the movement between the flutes, their sounding in different places and the forces of the creek itself. These structures are brought into proximity with sites of concreted drains which impose limits on the diverse lives of animals and microorganisms that might otherwise thrive within the site of the creek. The gravity of benthic ground is thick with forces, and the breath of these forces reverberate in figuring them.'
07:28 to 09:04
Engaging the Interval [Excerpt], 2022
PhD performance-installation, with Niki Johnson, Meredith Turnbull, Sarah Bunting, and Elena Betros-Lopez (video), Monash University, MADA Gallery, Caulfield.
09:05 to 10:00
Leaves, Hope for Resonance/葉（共鳴への希望) [Excerpt], 2020
These sounds and images are an outcome of a 2 month residency at Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo from Dec 2019 to Feb 2020. The exhibition was presented at Youkobo Art Space from January 22-26, 2020.
The piece is made up from sounds and formations produced with hinoki carvings, persimmon seed carvings, leaf flutes (笹笛 bamboo leaf flute and 草笛 leaf-flute) and beeswax flutes, procured from and returned to the local area around Youkobo. Included in the sounds is a recording of drumming made down the road at Igusahachimangu Honden and Romon Shinto shrines, and the 5pm melody of the council speakers outside Momoi Daiyon Elementary School.