![Image of installation set up. A CRT monitor sits on the floor, playing video work titled, "Scum Angel", a bird cage with an embroidered bat sits inside it hanging upside down. Behind the cage and CRT monitor, a flock of bats is projected onto the wall. The cage casts a shadow onto the projection](https://sites.rmit.edu.au/artschoolgradshow2022/files/2022/10/wscum-angel-grad-prof.jpg)
SCUM ANGEL is an ode to the symbology of the bat. In a collaboration with artist and peer Anna Pearl, we created an installation which imitated a bats lair. Cages, poetry, paintings and objects in combination with screens and projected visuals which all sourced the bat informed the space as a ritual of sorts. The materiality of reflective plates in both the space and in the video (linked above) becomes a gateway for the bat to enter and transform the space.
Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/user104142095
Melissa Paul