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Group Show / WALK WITH ME
In December 2024, DRAW Space will present Group Show / WALK WITH ME, an exhibition by eight artist-researchers who use walking as a deliberate strategy to reveal and disseminate new knowledge. The exhibition will open at 6pm on Thursday 28 November. Join the artists and DRAW Space team to celebrate. Once the primary mode of
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Bringing the river into the gallery and the future – Alexandra Crosby
Bringing the river into the gallery and the future: reimagining Birrarung 50 years from now Postcards from the future: the river-cleaning Birrabot. REALMstudios/NGV Australia Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney The Ian Potter Centre at Melbourne’s Federation Square is located on the banks of the lower stretches of Birrarung, the Yarra River. For Reimagining Birrarung Design
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The River, Our Mother
Baaka Ngamaka ‘Inana BADGER BATES, JULIA PATERSON & JUDITH BURNS We joined Gallery 76 at the Embroiderer’s Guild NSW for a talk with artist and president of the Guild, Judith Burns. Judith reflected on the creative journey that lead to the exhibition, and her friendship with Barkandji Elder, Badger Bates, and how his lifelong relationship with
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‘Cosmographies’ Film Launch
Member of our team, Dr Juan Francisco Salazar, debuted his new film ‘Cosmographies’ last week in Sydney. The film, a hybrid ethnographic-documentary-cum-sci-fi, was directed by Salazar and draws on his creative collaboration with performance artist Vitoria Hunt and the Lickanantay community, Toconao, Chile. Building from these relationships, this ARC sponsored film brings together narrative sci-fi,
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Water Walk
Join us on an ethnographic walk tracing the flow of storm water from DRAW Space Gallery to the wetlands at Sydney Park.Saturday, November 30 · 9:30am – 12pm AEDT
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Ecological art can bring us closer to understanding nature
How does this look in the era of climate change? Topographies at Sydney College of the Arts Gallery. Jessica Maurer Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney Ecology has always fascinated Australian artists. Think of landscape painters like Arthur Boyd (1920–99), who was inspired by nature and committed his career and legacy to protecting it. Boyd spent
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River Brain, embodied filmmaking
PhD student Holly O’Neil joined the Embodied Filmmaking Course ‘Bodies of Water’ run by IMPRINT documentary collective. IMPRINT is an international, experimental, women, trans and non-binary led film collective examining the body and processes of embodiment in documentary filmmaking. Founded in 2020, IMPRINT established the practice of embodied documentary filmmaking, a changing, experimental approach to creative documentary
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Water Stories
The pilot study for this project was an exploration of Green Square as a living archive, communicated through an interactive map at waterstories.info
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Australian Institute of Geography Conference
The team initiated two sessions on ‘Watery Geography’ at the 2024 Conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers The first session had papers from Alexandra Crosby, Malcolm Johnson, Sarah Jane Jones, Ilaria Vanni and Joanna Stirling. The second had papers from Taylor Coyne, Alexis Farr, and Ana Cristina Lara Heyns from The Alliance for Praxis Research
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Holly O’Neil joins the team
Welcome to Holly O’Neil, who has joined the project as a PhD student. Holly is an an anthropologist-artist with degrees in social anthropology, illustration, animation, and art. Her project ‘‘(In)visible Wetlands: Making the unseen seen through narrative, visual ethnography in Sydney’ will contribute to visualisation of Sydney’s buried wetlands.
researching
- To advance new knowledge of how diverse political, economic and cultural forces have shaped and continue to shape waterscapes in two precincts of Sydney undergoing urban renewal by developing a series of ‘water stories’;
- To better understand how communities living in renewing urban spaces can engage with local ecological contexts and complex histories of change;
Visualising
- To document and analyse how visualising water flows can contribute to improved knowledge about cultural and ecological relationships in renewing urban spaces;
- To test and evaluate the applicability of the case studies and conceptual framework by engaging key stakeholders in each of the two precincts in a series of codesign multimodal workshops.
With more than 85% of Australians living in urban areas and unprecedented urban growth, wetlands’ environments and histories are increasingly rendered invisible and illegible. Creating effective means to address the visibility of these environments is particularly urgent as new precincts are planned on undergrounded Wetlands. This ARC Discovery Project ‘surfaces’ connected wetlands in different parts of Sydney.
urbanwetlands.online 