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Connect & Regenerate: BCC Green Hearts Fair
Date
2024
Location
Brisbane City
Website: https://n11247258.wixsite.com/connectandregenerate
Role: Lead Artist, Sound design & Lead Cinematography
Installation: Curiosity Nests (2024)
Assisted by Elo Rolandson and Josh Pingolet
Connect & Regenerate is a fusion of sustainability and art
created by undergraduate students from QUT’s School of
Creative Practice. The presentation responds to the unique
history of the Barrambin/Victoria Park site and is supported by on-site performance, signage and a website.
Barrambin/Victoria Park is a place with a long history of both colonial and Indigenous land use. The recent history of the site as a golf course reflects an idea of place informed by settler aesthetics and
pastimes. However, taking a longer view, the site is, and always has been an important cultural place for First Nations people - for meeting, politics, ceremonies, customs and negotiation.
In keeping with these complex histories, and the ethos of the
Green Heart Fair, the artworks of Connect & Regenerate, are
each designed to engage sensitively with the long histories of
their sites, whilst also embodying cultural, ethical and material principles of sustainability and regeneration. Through the use of different materials and approaches the artworks complement and interweave with each other to create a meditative and sensually engaging experience for all members of the community.
The program included four artworks that incorporate a
combination of performances and instrumental engagement.
The strategic placement of the artworks encourages public
engagement with the Green Art Fair as they travel around the
site to participate in Connect & Regenerate.
Special thanks are due to QUT academic support and coordination with the Brisbane City Council.
QUT Connect & Regenerate Team:
Polly Chen
Angelica Dimal
Caleb Hockings
Joanna Jiang
Marielle Johnston
Grant Mitchelson
Maria Petropoulos
Joshua Pignolet
Ashleigh Reardon
Elo Rolandson
Sophia Summers
Bella Strachan
Kelsey Woods
Coordinated by Senior Lecturer Dr Keith Armstrong
