Pictures 2001
Catalogue / Memoir
Introduction
Pictures
Objects
Animations
PICTURES are both finished and ephemeral works made for animations.
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Roget's Circular
This page shows works I made for Roget's Circular the animated interactive installation I co-authored with Melissa Smith.
Roget's Circular evolved to become a traveling installation. Launched at Gallery 101 Melbourne, it was as part of Melbourne's Centenary of Federation program. It then toured Tasmania thanks to funding from Arts Tasmania.
Throughout 2000 Melissa and I traveled independently through the homelands of our ancestors, interacting with people and places, making new work, and communicating with each other by email.
On our return we adapted the Maze map developed for Terra Incognito to make our new digital work.
We adapted the six corridors on the maze to signify the six categories of meaning defined by Peter Mark Roget for his original thesaurus. Hence the title, Roget's Circular. Within this circular map Melissa and I placed our stories and new works, to share our journeys and personal reflections. The digital work became the central piece of our installation - a touch screen in a suitcase - inviting visitors to reflect on their own life journeys.
2001 Maze
Map developed with Ruth Luxford
for coding and navigating Terra Ingognita
Adapted by Ruth to make Roget's Circular
Our digital work was published by Macquarie Library who integrated it with their first electronic edition of their dictionary and thesaurus.
Our physical works were assembled around the digital interactive work in a suitcase.
The installation as a whole invited people to interact with the works and reflect on the meanings of words, identity and cultural heritage.
Our aim was to offer people an experience of the reality that although we may use the same words in the English language, we can actually mean something different, and sometimes quite opposite.
2001 Blue Moon
Oil on canvas. 1270mm x 1600mm.
Loaned to Limbo, Launceston;
Whereabouts unknown
2001 Solace / Lament Diptych.
Strahan / Eaglehawk Neck, Lutruwita.
Pastel on fire paper, framed, glazed.
1270mm x 1600mm.
Exhibited Gallery 101 Melbourne
for Centenary of Federation Program.
Loaned to Clifford Craig Medical
Research Centre, Launceston;
Loaned to Limbo
Complementary Medicine, Launceston;
Artist's collection, Sydney
2001 Esther Brown.
Evandale, Tasmania.
Pastel on paper
Ex Gallery 101
Private collection, Melbourne
2001 Existing Time.
(9 x A4 pages) Pencil on paper.
Artist's collection, Sydney
2001 Landscape Fragment 01
Oil on canvas
2001 Landscape Fragment 02
Oil on canvas
2001 Landscape Fragment 03
Oil on canvas
2001 Landscape Fragment 04
Oil on canvas
2001 Landscape Fragment 05
2001 Mount Arthur evening
Oil on canvas. 1270mm x 1600mm.
Loaned to Limbo, Launceston;
Artist's collection, Sydney;
Stephen Taberner collection, Sydney
STORY
EVENTS
The September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, generally considered to be the year's most prominent event, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror.
The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan after the Taliban government was unable to extradite Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden within 24 hours.
Other international conflicts in 2001 were the standoff between India and Pakistan as well as the Second Intifada between Israel and Palestine.
Internal conflicts began in Macedonia, in the Central African Republic, and in Guinea.
Political challenges or violent conflicts caused changes in leadership in Argentina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, Nepal, and the Philippines.
2001 was the second warmest year on record at the time, which was amplified by the end of a years-long La Niña phase. The Atlantic and Pacific tropical storm seasons were both more active than usual. The deadly Bhuj Earthquake took place in Gujarat, India on January 26, while the strongest earthquake in 36 years took place in Peru on June 23. A potential health crisis occurred when a major outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease spread among British livestock, bringing about the deaths of millions of animals. Four hominid species were described or proposed, and several major archaeological finds took place, including a set of terracotta citizens near the Terracotta Army. The pygmy three-toed sloth was also first described in 2001. The year had the fewest successful orbital spaceflights since 1963, with eight crewed missions. Successes in space exploration included the landing of NEAR Shoemaker on an asteroid and the arrival of 2001 Mars Odyssey on Mars.
Politics and religion in the final months of 2001 focused intently on the Muslim world and Islamic terrorism after the September 11 attacks.
The Catholic Church was active in 2001, as Pope John Paul II went on several goodwill trips to meet with non-Catholic religious groups and investigations of sexual abuse cases among the church's priests began.
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was arrested and became the first head of state to be charged with crimes against humanity by an international body.
The 27th G8 summit took place in Genoa and was met by 200,000 protestors.
2001 took place during a minor recession among developed and developing nations, with only middle income nations avoiding an economic downturn. The recession saw economic crises take place in Argentina and in Turkey.
American energy company Enron and the European airlines Sabena and Swissair all ended operations in 2001.
In popular culture, the Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings film franchises were launched, the iPod and iTunes were invented for music, and three major sixth-generation video game systems became available.
The Mac OS X and Windows XP operating systems were launched, as was the Wikipedia project.
Ref Wikipedia
Written by me, Lisa Roberts/Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill), on
08/08/2026
