Weaving Waters (2023): Yarun | Bribie Island AU

SciArt water residency and symposium framed by Indigenous knowing

Hosted by TreeCreate on the Yarun lands known as Bribie Island, Qld. 27 Nov - 8 Dec 2023.

Organisers: Tracey Benson, Martin Drury, Rebecca Thompson, Tas Winkler, Michelle Watson, and Nina Czegledy.
Onsite Participants: Rei Cheetham, Pasha Clothier, Tommy Dick, Kristine Diekman, Sue Finely, Deborah Hardt, Joan Kelly, Tamsin Kerr, Trudy Lane, Anne Leitch, Michelle Maloney, Bronwyn Patrickson, Kim Newall, Sarah Jane Pell, Te Ruitini Sheridon, Vicki Smith, Sandy Sur, Harete Tito, Nola Turner-Jensen, Desna Whaangna-Schollum, Tracey Willms Dean, and Jean Yern.

We are artists and scientists that are internationally recognised for our work with water. We are brought together to build connections between the local creative and environmentally focused community organisations of Bribie Island and our own communities, cultures and practices. We each act as a co-designer and facilitator of the weaving and wielding of collective memory, the conversations and in-water play, and in co-design research with interactive technologies, we inform and infuse the expert user-experience feedback into innovative, accessible, modes for further discovery. By creating a program aimed at cross-fertilising disciplines with a focus on Bribie Island as the subject the project will further provide opportunities for collaboration, knowledge sharing and capacity building locally. It will also present novel ways of highlighting the importance of Bribie Island and its role as a marine and wildlife sanctuary globally.

Experimental Projects, Public Events, and Reflections

Dr Tracey Benson, Symposium | Weaving Water @Yarun 2023

Symposium | Bribie Community Centre, 30 Nov
Tracey Benson, Kathleen Catalan, Sherry Bruce, Pasha Clothier, Tommy Dick, Anne Leitch, Michelle Maloney, Trudy Lane, Rewa Wright, on planetary care.

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Clay Wall Hangings workshop with Jean Yern, Bribie Island Seaside Museum, 2023

Workshops | Bribie Is. Seaside Museum, 29 Nov, 2 Dec
Nola Jensen Turner, Jean Yern, Kim Newall, Maggie Baxter, Harete Tito, Uncle Bruce Phillips, and Tracey Benson on concepts of water, waterways, plants.

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Ocean Connections, Artist Talks, Bribie Island Sea Museum, 2023

Talks | Bribie Is. Seaside Museum, 6 Dec
Sandy Sur, Desna Whaanga-Schollum, Sarah Jane Pell, Leah Barclay and Darren Jew - artists with Ocean Connections.

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Krista Ellis weaving demonstration, Bribie Island 2023

Stitch | Bribie Community Centre, 1-7 Dec
Krista Ellis, Kristine Diekman, Tracey Willms Dean, Sarah Jane Pell, Vicki Smith, and Kim Newall - hands-on studio experimentation.

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Aquatic Plays with Sarah Jane Pell, Bribie Island 2023

Play | Woorim Beach, Bribie Island, 5 Dec
Sarah Jane Pell facilitates a social inwater experience exploring aquatic performance with immersive visualisation tools.

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Geeks with Beaks with Sarah Jane Pell, Woorim Beach, Bribie Island 2023Geeks with Beaks with Sarah Jane Pell, Woorim Beach,  Bribie Island 2023

Model | Woorim Beach, Bribie Island, 7 Dec
Sarah Jane faciliates an improvised dawn salute exploring biomimicry and ritual behaviour of shorebirds for a VR artwork. Geeks with Beaks | Tidal Serenade

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of Country, the Elders of the Joondoburri and Gubbi Gubbi peoples, on whose land and waters we stay for this residency. We pay our respects to all First Nations peoples including creatives from Māori, Wiradjuri, Noongar, Bundjalung, Gamillaroi, Kabi Kabi, Woka Woka, Torres Strait and Vanuatu.

My attendance is partly supported by the Australian Government through an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant. This project meets the Monash University Faculty of Information Technology targets for improving Life Underwater, and Healthy Communities. It represents the strategic goals for excellence in research innovation, and builds new research partnerships and collaborations with funders and Partners: Pumicestone Indigenous Employment and Education Council (PIEEC), Bribie Island Environment Protection Association (BIEPA), Bribie Island Community Arts Society Inc (BICAS), AwhiWorld, Centre for Applied Water Science, University of Canberra, TurtleSat Australian Water Partnership, Victory Press, Intercreate Trust, and Moreton Bay Regional Council (RADF).

Links

Treecreate.org

Attribution

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