Text works
Sound
Composition for three fan voices
2016
Single channel audio file
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 22 seconds
Three separate recordings of the artist delivering real-time audio commentaries on Clive Barker’s cult horror film Hellraiser (1987) are played back simultaneously as a single channel audio file. Each of these commentaries has a different cadence and rhythm which cut across one another, resulting in a cacophonous chatter of voices. An excerpt is transcribed on the adjacent page.
Vader loop
2017
Lathe-cut, locked groove vinyl record
Photographs by Sam Roberts
A recording of the distinctive breathing of Star Wars villain Darth Vader is lathe-cut into a locked groove vinyl record, so asto play back as an indefinite loop.
Video
Evidence wall, 2023, browser-based artwork
Commissioned by Artlink magazine for Issue 43:2 After AI, this work connects over four hundred fictional automatons, robots, and artificial intelligences, positing them as agents in a vast conspiracy against the human race and cataloguing them according to various overlapping taxonomies.
Annotated two-bedroom unit, 2020, single channel video, 5 minutes 5 seconds
Commissioned for fine print magazine Issue 21: INTERIORS during a lockdown phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, this video work identifies various objects within the artist’s home as noteworthy artefacts from fictional narratives.
Composition for Akai MPC2000XL and rubber balls, 2013, single channel video, duration: 4 minutes 33 seconds
The drum pads of an Akai MPC2000XL sampler/sequencer are assigned various “boing” sound effects sourced from cartoons, which are triggered by rubber balls thrown at the device.
Performance
Bingo calls for the pop culture enthusiast (performance still from FELTlive, Queens Theatre, Adelaide, 2025), photograph by Rosina Possingham
Bingo calls for the pop culture enthusiast (performance still from FELTlive, Queens Theatre, Adelaide, 2025), photograph by Rosina Possingham
This performance took form of a game of 90-ball bingo wherein the typical vernacular of bingo calling was replaced with an eclectic range of numerically significant pop-culture references.
Roy Ananda vs. Monte Masi Pecha Kucha Battle, SALA Forum Day at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, 2017. Footage courtesy of Channel 44.
This performance took the form of two improvised Pecha Kucha presentations based on slideshows the performers had previously prepared for one another in secret.
Roy Ananda, fine print live, Melrose Wing, Art Gallery of South Australia, September 2018. Photo by Nat Rogers.
Roy Ananda, fine print live, Melrose Wing, Art Gallery of South Australia, September 2018. Photo by Nat Rogers.
Contributions to fine print issue 16: TRANSCRIPTIONS:
http://www.fineprintmagazine.com/clanachan-ananda-de-bruckyere
http://www.fineprintmagazine.com/clanachan-ananda-rothwell
These two spoken work performances (complementing corresponding performances by Alice Clanachan) interpreted iconic works from the Art Gallery of South Australia collection through the lens of various pop-culture fandoms.