Motion in Division

An examination of concrete’s hydrological infrastructure across four sites: the canalised Nihonbashi River in Tokyo, the ornamental Ljubljanica Sluice Gate in Ljubljana, the stepped Cotter Dam spillway near Canberra, and a concrete-lined stormwater channel at Flemington Road in Canberra. Single-channel projection, 10:30.

The work is constructed as a fixed-frame apparatus that visualises how the four structures organise the timing of flow, accumulation, and release. Across the four locations, Motion in Division develops a recursive modulation of attention: the camera returns to comparable framings of water and concrete, while variations in turbulence, level, and sound recalibrate the viewer’s sense of duration.

Slowness and stillness concentrate attention on how concrete governs time by staging delays, cycles, and feedback between water and structure. Cinematic attention becomes a method of exposure through which concrete appears as a temporal operator that regulates intensity through flow, rhythm, and form.