Art After Dark – Sustainable Existence
Dates & Times
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
5–9 pm
Program
The natural outcome of sustainable development is Sustainable Existence. When we carefully and consciously conserve resources and create alternative products and systems we are thinking beyond the self. We are thinking with nature, more than human and future generations.
5.30 pm – Gathering (walk) with Liane Rossler
The flow of the walk will unfurl interwoven stories of waters role in sustainable and regenerative practice. To think through and consider waters role in both deconstruction and reconstruction.
6–6.30 pm – Knowledge Holders (talk) with Thom van Dooren, USYD
Living in unravelling worlds: Hope in a time of extinctions. We are living in a period in which species of plants and animals are disappearing at a staggering rate. While some might still be saved, many have already been lost and others are slipping ever closer towards the edge of extinction with little chance of recovery. This talk focuses on the plight of Hawaii’s incredible land snails to explore both the challenges and the vital importance of holding onto hope in a time of escalating loss and grief.
6.45–7.15 pm – Assembly (livestream performance) Walk of Life – Thukral and Tagra
Responding to the urgent response to this agrarian crisis, Thukral and Tagra Studio’s ongoing Farmer is a Wrestler series: Weeping Farm takes you to the journey of women farmers and how they battle out to survive against all the odds. Statistics reveal that every 40 mins, a farmer commits suicide in India, and women at large bear the severity of this grave concern.The work acts as an intervention to expand the intricacies and socio-political discourses faced by today’s Indian Agrarian society.
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 Wytchings starts at 7.15 pm.
7.45 pm – Projector (film)
Plastic China
2016
82 mins
China
Director: Wang Jiuliang
This film tells a story about an unschooled 11-year-old girl Yi-Jie, she’s a truly global child who learns the world through the United Nations of Wastes while working with her YI minority parents in this recycle workshop thousand miles away from their mountain village home town.