Bundanon Siteworks Conversation
The Conversation Weekend, on 25 & 26 September 2010, was the culmination of The Lab - a week when invited participants from a range of disciplines spent time in residence at Bundanon responding to the environment, landscape and histories of the site.
THE CONVERSATION took place across the two properties, the Field Day being an experiential day driven by the Lab participants sharing their ideas/processes with audiences and the Forum concentrating on sharing local knowledge/s.
The Field Day at Bundanon attracted local, regional and Sydney based audiences. Lab participants presented works in progress offering multiple windows into the site-based work explored during the Lab. They ranged from pre-recorded sound works, to performances on the river and at the homestead and from sculptured Indigenous language in the landscape to presentations about research to date.
The Forum took place at Riversdale and was facilitated by Robyn Williams, three panels focused on the Health of the Shoalhaven River, the Future of Food and Artist-led strategies for action around Climate Change.
Weekend Schedule
THE FIELD DAY
Saturday 25 September 2010
Audiences walked the Bundanon sites absorbing the atmosphere, engaging in performances and presentations at the homestead, by the river and in the paddocks. They finished the day with a shared dinner with participating artists and scientists under the stars.
SCHEDULE- AFTERNOON
2 – 9pm Allegra & Elena Bonetto: Beauty Around Every Corner [all around you]
2, 3 & 4pm Garth Paine: present – in the landscape [at the Homestead]
2 – 9pm r e a: maang – ceremony (Gamilaraay) [across the black snake paddock]
2 – 5pm Jim Walliss & Steve Russell weaving workshop [Homestead garden] 2.30 – 4.30 Diego Bonetto: Weeds ‘R’ Us [Weeds ‘R’ Us tent]
2.30pm Alex Kershaw: The Shoalhaven where [Talks tent]
3pm Barbara Campbell & Jim Walliss [at the Homestead]
3.30pm Leah Gibbs: Three Glimpses [in the grove – see download]
4pm Keith Armstrong & Angharad Wynne-Jones Fellow Travellers [Talks tent]
SCHEDULE- EVENING
5pm Richard Scott-Moore & Cecil McLeod [top of the river walk]
5.20pm Stephanie Kermode Field Talk [trenches 8–10 south bank paddock]
5.40pm Nick Keys: Sentimental logic and the reason of emotion [flame tree corner]
6.15pm Tess de Quincey: Float–Slipping Through Time [river bank]
Robyn Backen: Last Word [river bank]
Heidrun Lohr: Lichtzeichen /Lightsigns [river bank]
6.45pm Michael Cohen: Charcoal in the Floodplain [trenches 8–10 south bank paddock]
7pm Dinner [Homestead garden]
8.30pm Rayma Johnson & Peta Strachan Ancient Echoes [Homestead lawn]
THE FORUM
Sunday 26 September 2010
11am - 4pm, Riversdale
Local audiences joined the conversation with artists, scientists and community activists about the future of food and water in a time of changing climate. Chaired by Robyn Williams- Presenter, ABC Radio National’s Science Show.
