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World Environment Day 2024
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
MELBOURNE MEET-UP with Leaf-Curling Spider Neighbours
10-11am AEST Domain Road Gate, Royal Botanical Gardens Melbourne (37.83311° S, 144.98012° E)
Join a fun MEET-UP with indigenous leaf-curling spiders! Chat about these resident recyclers, their urban survival skills, and how they continue to dwell with us in the city. Inspired by thinkers Ingold, Braidotti, and Bennett, we will explore dwelling with nature on this walk led by artist pattie beerens.
Please arrive at the Domain Road Gate (opposite Park Street) at 9.45am and after the walk we can visit a local coffee shop.
In the afternoon …
ANGLESEA MEET-UP with Leaf-Curling Spider Neighbours
2.30 -3.30pm AEST 29 Eighth Avenue Anglesea (38.42433° S, 144.17651° E)
Join for a fun MEET-UP in the studio of artist pattie beerens to celebrate World Environment Day. Meet up with local creatives - with indigenous inhabitant leaf-curling spiders. pattie will introduce visitors to the spiders she has befriended and collaborated with in her praxis of creating relations with the more-than-human. Share a chat about these resident architects as well as stories and observations over a warming hot chocolate.
These events are part of the ecoartspace Australian Dialogues series of coordinated events. Keep scrolling to find out more about ecoartspace and the Australian Dialogues. More information about other events across Australia are listed on the ecoartspace website.
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About the Australian Dialogues
The Australian Dialogues formed in 2022 to nurture a conversation between Australian creatives working in the ecological space. While seeking to create hopeful actions to address the issues impacting the environments where they live and work, they also remain connected to the broader ecoartspace community. Members of the Australian Dialogue represent the breadth and depth of interdisciplinary creative practice across all states and territories of Australia. Their practices include field-based and academic research, public art, community arts and cultural development, site-specific and site-responsive art, across the visual arts, sound art, moving image, performance, and other art forms.
This group has been discussing actions and collaborations on the theme of ‘care versus management?’, and we are now planning a series of events and activities leading to a group exhibition in Western Australia in 2025 and other events in greater Australia from December 2025 to January 2026. The first of these events will be on World Environment Day, 5 June 2024.
Taking its model from the worldwide 2015 ArtCop21, where “designers, artists, architects, scientists, and international thinkers come together to respond to COP21 and imagine together fresh narratives and perspectives to reinvent new worlds”, Australian ecoartspace members will create mini-public expressions for World Environment Day. All forms of ecological art shall be publicly accessible. For example, considering the power of listening before speaking, members will be creating online and offline active listening opportunities.
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