Dates & Times
Wednesday, 8 June 2022

5–9 pm

Program
Alternative Pedagogies looks toward how we can share space together, learn from each other and absorb knowledge – differently. It questions the traditional teacher/student relationship, where learning happens and how it is facilitated, by often acknowledging the teacher in all – spirit, land, water and intergenerational humans.

5.30 pm – Gathering (walk) with Lleah Smith – H20 Embassy(s) Performative Walk

Let us walk. 

Let us shout.

Let us move beyond our human skin. 

150 flags have been created by young people inspired by site-specific water bodies and the organisms that live within them. Grounded in the practice of rīvus participant Embassy of the North Sea, together we imagined – What do coral think about? What does a crab desire? How do tadpoles survive in the gutters of Jakarta?

We have built Embassy(s) tied to place that honour these diverse entities. We will bring puddles, pools, swamps, saunas, baths, rock pools, oceans, seas, gutters and so many more watery realms to life through marching together.

Please note: This is a participatory performative walk. You will be expected to chant the names of the newly built embassy(s) with the group.

6–6.30 pm – Knowledge Holders (livestreamed talk) with Caroline Woolard
Caroline Woolard is committed to the solidarity economy considering the different ways we can be in the world, together. Woolard will share her radical practice directly referencing her recent projects Trade School, a self-organised learning community that ran on barter, Making and Being Making and Being a framework for teaching art that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political economy and Art.coop a platform that connects cultural innovators across silos who do not know one another well, but are building the cultural economy they want.

6.45–7.15 pm – Assembly (performance) with Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris – I’m Raining in Your Lungs – A Score for Sensing the Hydrocene
The performance for this week of Assembly will revolve around rain and sensing, it will be an encounter within the space where participation meets precipitation. The performance begins with a reading of rain as the first dance, and then moves into other precipitational parts of the Hydrocene, a term I propose for the dramatic planetary shift towards thinking with and collaborating with water during the current climate crisis.

7–7.45 pm – Wednesdays Up Late at Galleria Campari  (live music)
Campari has collaborated with Sydney musician and composer Megan Alice Clune to bring you Wednesdays Up Late at Galleria Campari. Megan has curated a 13 week program of experimental, ambient and new classical music from both emerging and established Sydney/NSW musicians that will be framed with projections by artist, Carla Zimbler.  Join us in Galleria Campari and experience the diverse landscape of Sydney and NSW music alongside mesmerising projections. 

Performance by MP Hopkins starts at 7.15 pm.

7.45 pm – Projector (film)

O Horizon
2017
81 mins
India
Director: Otolith Group

The title refers to the surface layer of soil, changed in the area around Santiniketan as the result of Tagore’s introduction of new flora in development of the campus. In studying this trajectory, the film extends The Otolith Group’s ongoing consideration of the Anthropocene, a premise that denotes that the current geological age is one wherein human activity spurs the primary changes on climate and the environment. Commissioned by Bauhaus Imaginista and co-produced with the Rubin Museum, with kind support of Project 88. Courtesy of The Otolith Group & LUX, London.