Image: Phoebe Thompson
OCEAN GROVE TO BARWON HEADS
FIELD TRIP
SAT 25 JUNE, 10.00AM - 2.00PM
FREE
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FIELD TRIP places people at the centre of a dynamic and collective community activation of ancient crafts and performance. Geelong catchment boasts hives of creatives pursuing their art practice regardless of commercial attention. This project is about these hidden resources. How might their skill sets be the survival skills for millennials? COVID-19 has compounded barriers to creative skill acquisition for young people arising from screen-facing education and leisure. We position ‘creative’ as ‘clever’ through participation, intergenerational exchange, and collective creative activities, embracing ‘old ways of doing things’ as the essential ‘new way’ for today’s communities.
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This Field Trip does not accommodate access requirements. If you would like to participate and have access needs, please get in contact with us.
Participants should wear comfortable shoes and clothing and be prepared for weather changes. Participants should bring a backpack or bag with water, some lunch and any required personal possessions for the walk. This workshop requires a lot of walking.
Participants should bring a special small bag or box in which they can carry and present their collected objects.
This field trip takes us to Wadawurrung Country, Ocean Grove and Barwon Heads for a session facilitated by artists Phoebe Thompson and Amber Smith.
Mindful practice: walking and collecting. This workshop asks participants to think about how they navigate conscious experience. A grounding exercise and object-based activity will begin the day; getting participants to connect to themselves, the external world, and the things within it.
The workshop will involve an hour-long mindfulness walk—a dérive of sorts—from Ocean Grove to the Barwon Heads bridge that gets participants to think about psychogeography and the effect different environments (urban, natural) have on them. The day will end with participants sharing their experiences and showing their collected objects.
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The workshop will go from 10.30am - 1.30pm (approximately). Participants will arrive back at Platform Arts around 2.00pm. Alternatively, you can meet us at the workshop location.
10.00am: If you are catching the bus provided, please arrive at Platform Arts for a 10.00am departure.
10.30am: This workshop will begin at The Dunes cafe in Ocean Grove (https://goo.gl/maps/8V4Wi3uQjB...)
10.30am - 11.10am: Acknowledgement of Country, coffee, introduction and grounding exercise
11.10am - 11.40am: Object-based activity
11.40am - 12.40pm: Walk (dérive)
12.45pm - 1.30pm: Collected object presentation and debrief
1.30pm - 2.00pm: Workshop ends and participants depart from site or catch the return bus to Platform Arts, Geelong.
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Phoebe Thompson
Phoebe Thompson is an emerging curator, visual artist, and poet living and working on unceded Wadawurrung and Boon Wurrung land. Their multi-disciplinary practice is concerned with sustainability, personal identity, and the built and existing environment, whilst placing value on process, intuition, and sentimentality. They are in their final year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT.
Phoebe also volunteers at Connection Arts Space, and co-curates Time To Waste, an online journal with a focus on environmental, ecological, and sustainable creative practices. They programmed events for the 2020/2021 MPavilion season, including an online hand-dyeing workshop, and an environmentally-engaged arts panel. They have recently been selected as a finalist for the upcoming SETAC Art Prize, and are currently making works in collaboration with RMIT Creative and SIGNAL.
Amber Smith
Amber Smith is an artist, curator, producer and writer working within the sphere of objects, thing theory and collection practices. Amber is a PhD candidate at Deakin University in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. They hold a Bachelor of Design Arts (Visual Arts) from the Australian Academy of Design and a First-Class Honours Degree in Creative Arts at Deakin University. Amber is the Curator at Platform Arts and an academic at LaSalle College International Melbourne (LCIM) and Deakin University.
