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Cool Change is supported by the Visual Art, Craft and Design Framework, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
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Jimi DePriest
CCRP 26–27 – Jimi DePriest: Open Studio & Artist Talk
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11 Jul 2026
12:00–17:00
CCRP 2026–27
Jimi DePriest
Open Studio
12:00 – 5:00 PM
Saturday, 11 July 2026
Artist Talk
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Cool Change
Level 2, King’s Complex
533 Hay Street
Boorloo/Perth
WA 6000
Free
Cash bar
All welcome!
Concluding the first of four residencies in our 2026–27 Residency Program, Cool Change is excited to present an open studio with Jimi DePriest, featuring an artist talk facilitated by Samuel Beilby—artist, occasional musician, and co-founder/co-director of _____g.s (aka Underscore Gallery & Studios).
With assistance from Matthew Taggart and conceptual input from Lia T, Jimi has been developing an audiovisual installation inspired by ‘clutter rejection’—an adaptive method observed in echolocating bats—for presentation at _____g.s later in the year.
A wire framework, abstractly modelled on the anatomical features of bats, will suspend a 5-channel stereo system attached to a motor and including an interactive system with conductive textile components and input sensors. Field recordings and gritty beats will be controlled by the system and its various inputs through SuperCollider.
From its hardware and software to its audio components, the work considers the bat’s ambiguous subjectivity in an attempt to approximate environmental feedback between its natural sonic world and anthropogenic noise pollution, problematising and reconfiguring echolocation as a site of artistic inspiration and technological invention.