Friday 21 – Saturday 22 February 2025
Relational Ecologies Intensive is a two-day program consisting of workshops, panel discussions and performances all drawn from the nation-wide Climate Aware Creative Practices (CACP) Network and participating artists in The Charge That Binds.
Relational Ecologies Intensive questions how we study and teach climate aware creative practices, with a special focus on practice that attends to Indigenous land justice. Coming together in understanding how climate, art and learning networks are deeply interdependent and influence one another, Relational Ecologies Intensive is an experiment in collaboratively generating and modelling climate aware creative methodologies. We work collectively towards building expansive imaginaries in response to our planetary emergency.
The intensive emphasises what climate-aware artists do best: sharing, reworking and collaborating across precarious institutions while bringing a deep curiosity and awareness of materials and processes. The intensive investigates the embeddedness of art practice and pedagogies within histories of colonialism and logics of extractive capitalism.
Full list of collaborators:
- Beth Arnold
- Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris
- Terri Bird
- Lauren Burrow
- Alicia Frankovich
- Mark Friedlander
- Andrew Goodman
- Tristen Harwood
- Helen Hughes
- Lucas Ihlein
- Tessa Laird
- Laniyuk
- Katie Lee
- Clare McCracken
- Tara McDowell
- Clare Milledge
- Anastasia Murney
- Courtney Pedersen
- Jo Pollitt
- Charles Robb
- Micaela Sahhar
- Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett
- Lleah Smith
- Brooke Wandin
Curated by CACP member Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris with Tristen Harwood and Tara McDowell, and in collaboration with ACCA curators Shelley McSpedden and Elyse Goldfinch.
This project is supported by the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, RMIT Melbourne; Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne; Public Exchange Bureau, Deakin University; Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University and Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology.