Photo: Ben Hoffman
FACILITATED BY LUCY ALLINSON
FIELD TRIP: GEELONG BOTANICAL GARDENS
SUN 06 APR, 10.00AM - 1.00PM
FREE
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Field Trip is a series of encounters where participants join presenting artists on location, often traveling together from Platform Arts as a meeting point. It forges collaborative intergenerational connections, where artists share their site-based practice and speak to the importance of place in their work and self.
Platform Arts acknowledges that Field Trip takes place on the unceded lands of the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their language, art and culture, and acknowledge their people as the first artists and Custodians of this land. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and extend these respects to all First Nations people and their Elders, past, present and emerging.
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This field trip requires participants to be able to engage in a light walk for a few hours. If you have any accessibility concerns please contact our team: curator@platformarts.org.au
This field trip allows you to experience close listening, what noise pollution is, and how it is affecting our landscapes.
Lucy Allinson is a Geelong-based artist whose practice stems from research on urban and national parklands, with a focus on noise pollution and birdsong.
Lucy will lead people from Geelong Botanical Gardens - a site she has grown up around and has been studying for the last eight years - through Geelong CBD, finishing at Platform Arts.
Lucy Allinson is the co-curator and an exhibiting artist in our current exhibition, Sympoiesis, running until April 17 in Gallery One.
The sound walk will include the opportunity to experience how an acoustic ecologist investigates the landscape, what they look for, how they record, and a glimpse into Lucy’s research she has been undergoing the last few years. Come and learn about what noise pollution is, how damaging it can be and what it is doing to our landscapes, particularly in Geelong.
Presented in partnership with Deakin University.
This project has been supported by a City of Greater Geelong Community Grant.
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Please arrive at Geelong Botanic Gardens at 10.00AM
Soundwalk: 10.00AM - 1.00PM
Arrive back at Platform Arts at 1.00PMWhat to bring:
Walking shoes
Hat
Sunscreen
Water
Lunch and/or snacks
Any personal items or medications neededWalk covers approx 2km.
Track - Easy.
Clip Boards, worksheets and pencils provided. -
Lucy Allinson is a Geelong-based multidisciplinary artist working across sound, installation, painting, sculpture and photography. Her practice in acoustic ecology explores concepts of listening, capturing and composing to enable viewers to experience the different levels of human-machinery noise and the impacts of this on the acoustic ecology of our natural soundscapes. She is currently researching natural landscapes around Victoria to see how far one might have to travel to experience pure, natural soundscapes without the interference of human noise.
