We are in Launceston this week, collaborating with Lisa Roberts on her “Portrait of Community” project which is currently presented at Sawtooth ARI.
On Saturday the 29th March, Lisa and Sawtooth ARI Director Zara Sully co-facilitated a Round-table which was included in the Ten Days on the Island festival. As one of the invited speakers, along with artist Vicki West, Ruth Eriksen, Jane Easton, Gemma Gillette, Cat Kutay and Scott Bell, we explored the inter-relationships and perceptions of collaboration, perceived boundaries between art and science.
Here is the blurb from the Ten Days on the Island festival:
Round-table discussions, led by contributors of Portrait of Community. Co-facilitated by Zara Sully and Dr Roberts. Topics include ‘Bridging Western Ways of Thinking with Experiential Interconnected Knowledge’ – Dr Tracey M Benson, ‘Perils of People Not Communicating’ – Professor William Gladstone, ‘Designing Structures for Coral Reef Resilience and Recovery’ – Dr Gemma Gilette, and ‘Making Art and Doing Science for Recognising Relationships that Sustain Life’ – Dr Ruth Eriksen.
Image Credit: Dr Lisa Roberts – Luna Suitcase
The exhibition at Sawtooth ARI explores many layers of community, bringing together the more-than-human, the ancestral and the learned understandings and expressions of what community is. It includes animation as well as hand made contributions. The screen in the suitcase is also a wonderful metaphor for knowledge moves, with the interface paying homage to Tyson Yunkaporta’s discussion in Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World. Yunkaporta describes five ways of seeing from an Aboriginal perspective – kinship mind, storytelling mind, dreaming mind, ancestor mind and pattern mind.
Treecreate is a proud partner of Lisa’s ongoing Living Data program and all the explorations within and connected to it – like Portrait of Community
Tracey M Benson || Bytetime 