:: DENNIS KRATZ :: About ::

DENNIS KRATZ: www.denniskratz.com

Dennis Kratz are collaborative interdisciplinary artists whose work explores intersections between diverse disciplines including photomedia, film, sound, installation and interactive environments.

In 2004 Dennis Kratz traveled to the regional NSW community Hill End, where they undertook a seven week collaborative residency.  There they began work on ‘Guided by Voices’ a new media project dealing with presences, absences and the passing of time. On return from this residency they developed an interactive video installation called ‘To Rose (My Love)', which explored the mysterious death of a woman and her three children on her property at Triamble, situated approximately 45 kilometers from Hill End.  

In 2005 they were awarded a residency at the Petersham Town hall in Marrickville, where they teamed up with Sydney based public artist Graham Chalcroft to develop ‘Secrets of the City, Gumbramorra Swamp Thing!’  This experimental art event consisted of a series of workshops where participants created site specific public artworks and installations that mapped and interpreted stories pertaining to sites within the footprint of the former Gumbramorra Swamp that extended across the suburbs of Marrickville, Sydenham, Tempe , St Peters and Newtown .

Most recently Dennis Kratz have received funding from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts to develop Diorama: Constructing a Virtual Memory, a project that uses language as an entry point for exploring historical memory and the way that it is affected by an environment increasingly mediated by new technologies.