Rivers, rocks, relations - poetic methods in the fluvial commons

Created for Platform Arts, this program was delivered for the 2022 LAB artists across two days upon the Belmont and FyansFord Commons in Geelong.

Created and facilitated by Luna Mrozik Gawler and Zoe Scoglio, the workshops considered how artists arrive to local ecologies as uninvited quests on unceded lands, working with, and through multispecies dynamics, scales, agencies, temporalities, and technopolitical, agri-industrial/material-semiotic entanglements,

Meeting amidst a time of flood, this lab asks how the histories, presents, and possible futures of Riverine ecologies might offer alternative methods of art practice that radically reconfigure the artist's role in times of tumult, how might artists challenge the damaging and dominant ideologies that place the figure of a western human at its center? How might the complex articulations and sociopolitical entanglements of Riverine ecologies invite methods of relationship and reciprocity with site and matter?Over two days, these labs explore Barwon River's sensory, somatic, and speculative invitations to reorient towards a more-than-human world.