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Kellerman: Expanded: A Live Audio-Visual Performance In The Whitsundays, Grayson Cooke
Kellerman: Expanded: A Live Audio-Visual Performance In The Whitsundays, Grayson Cooke
Grayson Cooke
‘Kellerman: EXPANDED’ was a live audio-visual performance and improvisation, specially produced for the Seventh International Small island Cultures Conference in the Whitsundays (June 2011). It was a ‘live cinema’ remix project, in which footage from films featuring and about Australian champion swimmer and silent film star Annette Kellerman was mixed live against a soundtrack made up of songs about the Whitsundays and tracks by sound artist Mike Cooper. Annette Kellerman was an Australian performer who achieved fame as a synchronised swimmer in the London and New York Hippodromes in the 1910s and, later, as a silent film star. She spent …