Angelica Mesiti’s ASSEMBLY is a three-channel video installed within an architectural setting inspired by the historical shape of the community circle and amphitheatre. ASSEMBLY establishes as an evolving set of translations from the written word to stenographic codes then music, and performance. Filmed in the Senate chambers of Italy and Australia, the three screens of ASSEMBLY travel through the corridors, meeting rooms and parliaments of government while performers, representing the multitude of ancestries that constitute cosmopolitan Australia, gather, disassemble and re-unite, demonstrating the strength and creativity of a plural community.
Initially invited into the project by composer Max Lyandvert, I was further able to contribute to the work with several original compositions.
Artist Angelica Mesiti
Producer Bridget Ikin
Cinematographer Bonnie Elliott, ACS
Composer Max Lyandvert
Michela Stenographic Advisor Paolo Michela-Zucco
Poet David Malouf
Michela Stenographer Michele Pigliapoco
Pianist Sonya Lifschitz
Viola James Wannan
Clarinet Aviva Endean
Sanṭūr Jamal Farokhsereshti
Dancer Deborah Brown
Drummers, C’DARZ John Afram, Christopher, Dandan, Ricky Hadchiti, Albert Khouri, Rizik Khouri, Bakhos Samrani, Nadim Sleiman, Anthony Younes
Vocalists The House that Dan Built: Elektra Blinder, Grace Campbell, Sofia Goulding, Brianna Harris, Kittu Hoyne, Kiri Jenssen, Emily Pincock, Harper Pollard, Jayden Selvakumaraswamy, Iris Simpson, Thu Tran, Sylvie Woodhouse
Vocalists’ Manager Danielle O’Keefe