An exploration of pain and repair through music

Violinist/composer Jane Aubourg performs on Anita Johnson’s sculpture Play Me Mend Me – a curious assemblage of an unfinished violin, a salvaged crutch, a tobacco tin, and a blanket. Strings weave through its 1.6m length creating three unique sounding sections. Jane’s music on this instrument/sculpture explores her experience of chronic pain from playing violin. This cross-artform collaboration explores how to continue making music; how to play and how to mend.

Jane Aubourg is a Wollongong based composer, violinist and zine maker. She performs with Sydney-based exploratory music collective the music box project. She writes a monthly zine called Paper Trails that explores and documents her creative process.

Anita Johnson′s sculptures are concerned with the brokenness of things, notions of repair, human experiences of longing and states of transition. The familiar domestic objects that she transforms into sculptures are salvaged objects chosen for their history of close human interaction.