Detail of the image: Batmans Landing, from the series Flowing with the Future (Surviving Batman), 2024, Jody Haines)
Facilitated by Jody Haines
FIELD TRIP: Deep Listening and Making with Country - footscray
SAT 17 may, 11.00AM - 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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As this is a field trip, ensure that you bring anything you might need during this time. If you are catching the bus from Platform Arts, you will need to stay the duration of the field trip in order to catch the bus back with the group.
If you have any accessibility concerns please contact our team: curator@platformarts.org.au
This field trip explores deep listening, place-thought and time as a way of attuning to place.
Through creative methods—listening, writing, photography, dreaming—we will attune to place and listen to and feel the Maribyrnong River, a living entity, on Kulin Country. Diving into the methods used by the artist to imagine and create her site-specific works, we’ll make camera-less photographs through a lumen process—collaborating with time and the sun, share tea and conversation, and create portraits (either of self or with each other or with Country). After the workshop, Jody will process the lumens, scan and email you your image.
A minibus will take participants to Jody's workshop in Grimes Reserve, Footscray. Alternatively, participants are welcome to join the group at the Grimes Reserve location. The address will be shared closer to the workshop date.
Presented in partnership with Deakin University. The Field Trip project was conceived by Professor Rea Dennis and is co-curated by Doctor Amber Smith.
This project has been supported by a City of Greater Geelong Community Grant.
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Please arrive at Platform Arts at 10.00AM
Bus trip: 25-30 mins
Arrive at Grimes Reserve, Footscray
Short break: 10.45AM - 11.00AMExperience: 11.00AM - 1.00PM
Depart Footscray just after 1.00PM
Arrive back at Platform Arts between 1.30-2.00PMWhat to bring:
Comfortable shoes
Pen
Writing pad
Camera/phone camera/tripod if you have one (to make your self-portrait)
Your tools of creative exploration
To be supplied —
A sheet of photographic paper and frame.
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Jody Haines (palawa) is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist whose practice is rooted in Indigenous feminist known materialism. Jody’s work forms a dialogue between Country, body, and self through large-scale public art, projections, and photographic installations that explore themes of identity, representation, and the complexities of the female gaze.
