Alex Pug Williams
Scavenger-Collection (2023 - ongoing) is an iterative, sound sculptural assemblage composed of found and discarded materials, transformed into immersive sonic-static installations. They explore climate anxiety, waste, and material transformation through embodied ritual, methodically recomposed into resolved taxonomic forms such as; web of detritus, polystyrene flesh office, scavenger-tower and anxilofone. These sonic sculptures thrum with eco-feminist black metal energy—melodramatic, kinetic, brutal, materially complex and authentic—art for alarm. Precarity and doom are explored through truth-telling and a hint of deranged optimism. Informed by anticoloniaism, new-materiality and an (un)disciplined approach, Scavenger-Collection performs the detritus of consumption and decay, generating sound as an embodied sculptural medium.
This is an EMERGENCY!
I’m an ALARM!
I cushioned your new fridge, flew down Hope street in a westerly gust.
I’m nestled between basalt, breaking in the Birrarung, wet and squishy.
I’ve been here for a while now, and water turns me like a stone.
I’m toxic if you eat me, and many fishes do.
I’m cheap and mass produced, especially for you.
Alex Pug Williams, web of detritus, sound sculptural assemblage, reclaimed polystyrene, reclaimed steel, found 30m long steel spring, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.
Alex Pug Williams, web of detritus, sound sculptural assemblage, reclaimed polystyrene, reclaimed steel, found 30m long steel spring, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.
Alex Pug Williams, Polystyrene Flesh Office, sound sculptural assemblage performance, reclaimed polystyrene, reclaimed steel, found wood, recycled denim, recycled guitar strings, bronze, coburg carpark skin, recycled brake cables, incense. 2025. Photography by Tamara Chichaeva.
Alex Pug Williams, Anxilofone and Watcher, sound sculptural assemblage, reclaimed polystyrene, reclaimed teaching workshop drill bits, found wood, recycled brake cables, recycled guitar strings, coburg carpark skin. 2025. Photograph courtesy of the artist.
Alex Pug Williams, Scavenger-Tower, sound sculptural assemblage, reclaimed polystyrene, reclaimed steel, found wood, lightning damaged redgum, reclaimed teaching workshop drill bits, recycled brake cables, recycled bike spokes, used paper cup. 2025. Photography by Eve Luckk Parker.
Alex Pug Williams. Art-Alarm, sound, 02:07, 2025.
Alex Pug Williams, Dights Falling, video, 05:03, 2025. filmed by Eko, edited by Pug.
Alex Pug Williams, Installation view, 2025. Image courtesy of the University of Melbourne. Photography by Astrid Mulder.
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne