Field of Triggers: Agritemple, 2025

eight channel video, eight channel sound, cotton bed sheets, aluminium

390.0 x 400.0 x 400.0 cm

Artist: Tina Stefanou

Video collage designer: Steve Berrick

Editor, colourist: Wil Normyle

Sound designer: Alistair McLean

Project manager and sculpture fabricator: Ellen Sayers

Screen maker and sowing: Stephanie Kirkbright

Fabricator apprentice and metal welder: Georgia Brooks

Fabrication support: Richie Brownlee

Commissioned by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne with support from Creative Australia, Arts House and Yamaha 

Field of Triggers: Agritemple 2025 presents fragments of Tina Stefanou’s performance documentation filmed between 2021–24. The films are played through an algorithmic program that interacts with different taxonomies of inputs, forming a dynamic composition—a chorus that is never experienced the same way twice. A circular temple of livelihoods, technologies, and modalities in motion.

Within the temple we witness echoes of peasant practices through a contemporary Greek-Australian family unit: a woollen-clad tractor dragged across a dead canola crop; rural town halls and regional streets galvanised by encounters with hums, poetry, and processions; alongside a crowd of horses, chickens, roadkill, shifting landscapes, and the rhythms of family life. All meditate on the resilience and destruction of agrarian communities in the face of ecological and political change.

The soundtrack features creative vocal resonances and spoken descriptions written and recorded in collaboration with the film’s participants. A quadraphonic cacophony of lived experiences, oral storytelling, and emotive expression.