with, moving with and thinking with; the environment.
About this Event
Presented as part of IN | ARI Symposium: A Matter of Time
Visit www.in-ari.com.au for full program.
THE FUTURE IS... What kind of relational structures do we need to thrive in our current and future shifting landscapes?
Join artist Merinda Davies in a process of world-building – listening with, writing
with, moving with and thinking with; the environment inside and outside IN | ARI.
This workshop will invite intimate encounters with humans and other beings.
Mapping our bodies and ecological entanglements with the site.
This workshop may include movement, writing, drawing, listening, smelling,
touching. Everyone is invited, everything is optional, no experience in
dance/writing/drawing etc is required.
Re-orienting our perspective towards interspecies thinking, we will recreate a
collective map of the site. Speculating an alternative dream-scape through
conversation, mapping and hands-on making to dig into questions of intimacy and
connection with humans and other beings as we face an uncertain future.
During a residency in Ōtautahi earlier this year I made this diagram (see below) as an expansion of the futures cone made by Hancock and Bezold in 1994 and
expanded by Voros in 2003. My version places the futuring propositions into the
‘redzone’ landscape and adds `time’ and `collective dreaming’. This is a tool to think
about: how we might dream futures together in order to reflect on our present and
who’s perspectives we are listening to during that dreaming.
Can you imagine listening beyond the edges of your imagination? What is hidden
there?
What kind of relational structures do we need to thrive in our current and future
shifting landscapes?
How can we listen better to the trees?
Who will breathe for us when the air is too thick for our lungs?
What timescales are we operating on?
The IN | SITE 2024 Destabilise Program is supported through the Creative Industries Investment Program and is jointly funded by Sunshine Coast Council Arts and Heritage Levy and the Regional Arts Development Fund in partnership with the Queensland Government.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Old Lock Up, 4 First Avenue, Maroochydore, Australia
AUD 0.00 to AUD 17.19
