Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Southbank – 27th February 2025
What a day! Thank you to Arts, Activism, and the Anthropocene strand leaders Katie Lee and Shelley Hannigan, leading our first On Country Day for 2025 on 27th February. The weather was perfect, and our minds
and senses were alive as we wandered through spectacular spaces, including the gallery at ACCA for The Charge that Binds, following Katie’s informative introduction to the climate-aware arts practices project and the
exhibition.
We then strolled to the marvellous MPavilion in Victoria Gardens to hear from Neomatter co-founder and RMIT senior lecturer Ollie Cotsahis, industrial designer and circular economy expert Sarah Dsylva, and UNSW cultural geographer Nina Williams. They introduced their Every Living Thing guided sensory experience that playfully engages with regenerative design and the circular economy. Many of us returned for the event/party in the evening for some hands-on practical engagement with materials.
We sat in the shade of a large tree as Shelley Hannigan led a series of presentations from colleagues and a discussion on the ways various methodological and conceptual framings have been used to position research approaches and present research outputs in innovative and aesthetic ways. Finally, our senses of sight, smell and taste were rewarded with a spectacular shared lunch at Indigenous owned and operated kitchen Mabu Mabu in Fed Square. Talk about regenerating!
Check out the The Charge That Binds – ACCA website.
