Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) / Ground Floor, Building F Monash University, Caulfield Campus. 900 Dandenong Road. Caulfield East / Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Rivers, wetlands and other salt and freshwater ecosystems featured in rīvus—the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022)—as dynamic living systems with political agency. Indigenous knowledges have long understood non-human entities as living ancestral beings with a right to life that must be protected. But only recently have animals, plants, mountains and bodies of water been granted legal personhood.
While rīvus invited several aqueous beings into a dialogue with artists, architects, designers, scientists and communities, Rivermouth delves further into their relationships with sky and earth Country. Building upon some of the Biennale’s themes and concerns, it considers the migratory routes of waterbirds, recognises First Nations systems of celestial and seasonal mapping, and explores the potential and agency of natural elements, materials and cycles of growth, decay and regeneration.
Guest curated by Artistic Director of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, José Roca, in collaboration with MUMA’s Charlotte Day and Francis E. Parker.
Rivermouth is co-presented with...the collaborative project baanytaageek: Great Swamp Fragments featuring the cross-disciplinary research of Professor Nigel Bertram, N’arwee’t Professor Carolyn Briggs AM, Catherine Murphy, Rutger Pasman and Ben Waters.
Rivermouth runs concurrently with travelling Biennale exhibitions at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (4 February – 18 March 2023); Cairns Art Gallery (18 February – 16 April 2023) and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (28 January – 29 April 2023).
Entrada actualizada el el 17 feb de 2023
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