FUTURE NOSTALGIA
Charlotte Haywood
15 July - 5 August 2023
Charlotte Haywood, FUTURE NOSTALGIA (2023), digital collage, courtesy of the artist © Charlotte Haywood
I am not a noun. I am an ecology.
FUTURE NOSTALGIA looks at emergent narratives of the future through our relationships to song, dance, craft, food, ecologies, ourselves and each other.
Drawn from evolutionary ecological research + restoration, speculative fiction, surrealism, ecophilosophy and biomimicry. Haywood works to congeal collaborating participants, including; multi-instrumentalist/artist Sue Simpson, evolutionary biologist Dr. Katharina Nargar from the Australian Tropical Herbarium, JCU, krump dancers The Flood (Max Douglas), resonance artist/harpist Natalia Mann, Kuku Yalanji Song Woman/Weaver Merindi Schrieber, harpist Loni Fitzpatrick, the Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Forum of Sensory Motion, environmental scientist and rainforest seed specialist Michelle Chapman, and wild food researcher/chef Peter Hardwick amongst emerging others.
Charlotte Haywood lives on Bundjalung Country in Northern NSW. She is an experimental interdisciplinary artist working across the senses. She has cultivated a highly collaborative and process-driven practice that is dedicated to eco aesthetics and the nurturing of biodiversity; as the variety of life and ideas. Her performative practices and embodied materials can vary from hybrid architectural forms to the ancient technology of tapestry weaving in a symbolic un-weaving and reweaving of interrogated histories and land management practices, cultural botany, ecological restoration, gesture as language, synaesthesia, national community interdisciplinary-craft-geometry-science-environment networks, data as flavour, community cookbooks, creative disaster recovery, sonic weaving and evolving multi-narrational video works. Haywood is a master weaver. She experimentally trades between the tactile and the digital, form and phenomena- working across textiles, sculpture, installation, experimental architecture, public art, film, theatre, sound, music, flavour, linguistics, community and ecologies.
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OPENING
6-8pm, Friday 14 July 2023
JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
Featuring Live Art with Thv Flood dance collective, GroveMindz and multi-instrumentalist Sue Simpson
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DANCE WORKSHOP with Thv Flood
6-8pm, Friday 14 July 2023
JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
Join Thv Flood for a dance workshop exploring the Flooding style of dance. Equipping you with tools to express yourself through body language and movement.
Flooding, a local dance style originating from Ipswich, QLD, responds to the 2011 Floods and Australian suburban lifestyle.
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JWAC Gallery
Cnr Brunswick and Berwick Streets
420 Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley Q 4006
(map here)
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seedtreemaps.com
www.forumofsensorymotion.com
The artist/curator would like to thank and offer respects to: Edward Horne, Sophie Fleming, Hamish McCormick, Pania Edmonds, Sinem Saban, Victor Steffensen, Gerry Turpin, Tyson Yunkaporta, Robyn Wall Kimmerer, Vandana Shiva, Timothy Morton, Wade Davis, Donna. J. Harraway, the Bundjalung Nation, Buluwai People, Eastern Kuku Yalanji People, the Jagera and Turrbul Peoples of Meanjin, and all First Nations and Nature-based Cultures that are maintaining Law, Culture and Traditional Ecological knowledge (TEK).
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This project has been assisted by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. |