Join us for a weekend of performances, workshops and talks.
Siteworks 2022: From a deep valley is a series of events that position the artist as a kind of weather balloon, capturing ‘weather reports’ from this place and time. Read more about the Siteworks season (26 November 2022 – 12 March 2023).
Saturday 25 February
DROP IN WORKSHOPS
Saturday 25 February. Drop in various times: 10am – 5pm BOOKINGS NOT REQUIRED. Boyd Education Centre, Bundanon
A day of relaxed workshops for all ages, providing fun frameworks for thinking about weather, collective activism and the transformative power of natural materials.
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Sunday 26 February
PERFORMANCE: The Plant Sensibilia Machine
10AM – 5PM Boyd Education Centre, Bundanon
A large-scale hand-operated dyeing machine that brings the process out of the studio and into the public realm. The project brings together the plants of Bundanon and the Shoalhaven together with the significant Yuin voices of Aunty Deidre Martin and Jacob Morris.
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WORKSHOP: Hearing Country
10.30AM – 1.30PM Boyd Education Centre, Bundanon
This cultural immersion workshop is about learning to read and exist with Country.
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PERFORMANCE: Dust of these domains
11 – 12PM Art Museum and grounds, Bundanon
This call and response performance from Bianca Hester responds to a kaleidoscope of material fragments that are witness to the movements of the earth, and the pulses of extinction registered in its lithic bodies.
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LABORATORIUM TALKS: 26 February 2022
2PM – 4PM Art Museum, Bundanon
Speakers include Artprogramme.org (with Naomi Eller and Steven Rhall), Dr Michelle Dawson and artist Fernando do Campo.
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STAY AT BUNDANON
Make the most of your Siteworks Weekend with an overnight stay in Bundanon’s eco-friendly Bridge accommodation. Join wild food expert Diego Bonetto on a guided foraging walk, before a 3-course chef’s table dinner with local wines and beers. In the morning, a continental breakfast and a yoga class are also included.
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Image: Bianca Hester, Reading walking lithic bodies. Bronze sculpture, A2 silkscreen prints (5 x edition of 50), 1 hour performance. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2022. Photo by Anna Hay.
