Space Trilogy (2008-2015)
a trilogy of interdisciplinary works executed as large-scale public performances, extra-planetary transmissions and online artworks. SPACE TRILOGY investigates the relationship between art and outer space. For TRILOGIES Weiland presents elements of the three projects in the form of live recordings, video works and remnants from performances.

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Yelling at Stars (2008)
audio and mixed media installation
dimensions variable

Yelling at Stars was Australia’s first inter-stellar message to be transmitted deep into outer space on the closing nights of the 2008 Next Wave Festival at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.  The transmission was a 40-minute sound, audiovisual and performance work prefaced with an introduction by SBS Television’s World News Australia presenter Anton Enus. The live performance was recorded and streamed live to Deep Space Communications Network in Florida, USA, where it was converted into radio waves and transmitted approximately 4 light years into space.  The performance was supported by a major web-based component, in which the Yelling at Stars team lead viewers through the many philosophical and scientific issues involved in interstellar communications.

Created by Willoh S.Weiland with Nicky Forster, Pip Norman, Andrew Fraser and Josh Gardiner.

Yelling at Stars was created with the support of the Next Wave Festival, the JUMP mentorship program, the City of Melbourne through its Arts and Culture Branch and SBS World News Australia.

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Void Love (2011)
4 channel digital video installation

Void Love, an online soap opera about space, has been developed through a residency with Swinburne University’s Department of AstroPhysics and Supercomputing – a leading institute in the discovery of new galaxies in our universe and next generation astronomy. Void Love features interviews with leading astronomy scientists such as Dr Christopher Fluke, the deep voice of Kamahl as narrator, and the inimitable Bollywood classics scoring the weighty issues at the heart of the cosmos. Willoh’s residency at Swinburne was supported by ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) Synapse initiative. Original concept by Willoh S.Weiland & Nicky Forster with Andy Lane, Doctor Christopher Fluke, Christie Stott, Matthew Gingold & Robert Douglas Sola.

Void Love is presented by The Australian Network for Art and Technology and Swinburne University in association with the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

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Forever Now (2015)
Single channel digital video and Forever Now Golden Record prototype

Forever Now is a golden record for the 21st Century, compiled and designed by a cross-disciplinary team of artists and curators. Forever Now unleashed a one-year open call for submissions that concluded with the commission of original sound and audiovisual artworks. In the footsteps of the Voyager Golden Records, sent into space in 1977 by NASA as a record of culture and science at that time, Forever Now seeks to investigate our current historical moment. It re-imagines this curatorial act as experimental, politically charged and for the first time places artists at the democratic centre of speaking on humanity’s behalf. Forever Now is an Aphids project in association with MONA FOMA Festival 2015 Performance Space, Vitalstatistix. Conceived and directed by Willoh S.Weiland. Curated by Willoh S. Weiland, Brian Ritchie, Thea Baumann & Jeff Khan.

Forever Now has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and with the support of the City of Melbourne through its Arts and Culture Triennial Program.

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