08 PM | 01 Dec

Nature in the Dark Screening #Melbourne #cute #creatures #geekgirl

Enter a world where art and science converge and where the comfortingly familiar is tantalizingly foreign. In a joint venture, conservationists and artists use the same photographic material gathered to profile mammals’ response to fire (or the absence of fire) to very different ends. Animals from Wombat State Forest and Bunyip State Park were ‘caught on camera’ as part of a scientific data collection project. Nature in the Dark invited 10 artists to respond and presents their creative adaptations, remixes and interventions of the scientific footage of native bush animals’ activities at night.

Screening The works will be screened at Fed Square 23 November – 23 December 2012 for screening times check Events on the Fed Square website http://www.fedsquare.com/events/

Participating Artists Angie Black / Elizabeth Dunn / Siri Hayes / Jan Hendrik Brüggemeier & Renuka Rajiv & Scott Lewis / Tim Nohe / Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski / Steve Turpie

Website www.centreforcreativearts.org.au/nature-in-the-dark

 

11 AM | 03 Sep

Interspecies: Artists Collaborating With Animals

If there was ever an event after my own heart, it’s one that marries concern for animals with creativity:

“Interspecies asks: Can artists work with animals as equals? If not, what is the current state of the human-animal relationship? It has recently been shown that humans are closer to the higher primates than previously thought, with chimpanzee and gorilla behaviour reflecting politics, deception and even possibly creativity. What does this mean to the way we see ourselves as one species inhabiting a planet in crisis? Interspecies uses artistic and participatory strategies to stimulate dialogue and debate, showing artists in contact with real animals and negotiating a new power relationship, questioning the way we view our interactions with animals during Darwin’s anniversary year.”

Interspecies has a whole shebang of London-based events planned for early October including: exhibitions, symposia, workshops and outings. Artists include: Nicolas Primat, Antony Hall, Kira O’Reilly, Ruth Maclennan, Beatriz da Costa, Rachel Mayeri + Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson.