Gathering Ground

Gathering Ground was a generative walkshop series, using embodied reading, walking and making to expose and transform relationships between people and places. Participants took part in an embodied reading exercise which acted as a provocation for walking exploration based on the situationist technique of drifting. These practices were distilled through generative writing exercises.

I presented these workshops in person and online. In the online workshops, provocations are shared together in a Zoom call, followed by offline exploration by participants in their local area, who return to the zoom call to take part in the generative writing excercises.

Workshop themes and texts:

Life, Death and Discomfort

Text: Staying with the Trouble: making kin in the Chthulucene, Donna Haraway

NT Writers Festival, October 2020 (in person)

Making Kin 

Text: Shimmer, Deborah Bird Rose

Victoria University Place Pedagogies Seminar, October 2020 (online)

Working into the Cracks

Text: Pandemics as Portals, Arundahti Roy

Red Dirt Poetry Festival, August 2020 (online)

Finding Our Place 

Text: Recovering a Narrative of Place

NT Writers Center Series Mparntwe/Alice Springs,  April 2020 (online)

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Small. Slow. Humble.

Small. Slow. Humble was an invitation to consider radical alternatives to the current models of creative success. This interactive forum blended community conversation, reading group and ritual to create space for reflection, discussion and visioning about how we, as artists, might nurture small, local and inclusive practices within our individual and collective practices, in the places where we live, work and love.

Alice Springs Women’s Shelter

Stitch in Time & 100 Voices

Whilst working with Alice Springs Women’s Shelter, I developed the Stitch in Time project. Over two years we collected and shared over 100 women’s stories of resistance to domestic violence through the creation of 10 story quilts.

Testing Ground: A Ritual of Recovery

Testing Ground was a ritual of recovery, that made visible the damage to the ‘Ilparpa Claypans’, caused by dumping and invasive weeds.