Yimbaya Maranoa: Creating resonant echoes from Country

Please join us – and register – for this creative and immersive event on campus, hosted by MTH and part of the QUT Sustainability week

Yimbaya Maranoa: Creating resonant echoes from Country

An immersive event at QUT that explores the intersection of art, culture, and environment in the Maranoa region.

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM AEST

QUT Education Precinct, Kelvin Grove 149 Victoria Park Road Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059 (E block level 5)

 

Please register here (free):

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/yimbaya-maranoa-creating-resonant-echoes-from-country-tickets-682014251987?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

The More-than-Human Maker Symposium 2023, “Yimbaya Maranoa: Creating Resonant Echoes from Country,” is an immersive event at QUT that explores the intersection of art, culture, and environment in the Maranoa region. Led by distinguished researchers and creative practitioners, the symposium delves into audience experiences with art, creativity, and technology, and fosters connections with Indigenous knowledge keepers. Through video/audio works, the Remapping Mitchell Collective showcases its impactful projects. Keynote speaker Michelle Maloney, from the Australian Earth Laws Alliance, emphasises the importance of ecocentric projects and collaborations. Visiting artists with connections to the Maranoa contribute their unique perspectives. Throughout the day, attendees can enjoy an exhibition viewing at the Sphere and Interactive Data Wall, participate in an artist panel facilitated by Dr. Vicki Saunders, and engage in a drawing workshop with neon and fluorescent materials. The symposium offers a vibrant platform for dialogue, appreciation, and creativity, inspiring participants to shape a more inclusive and sustainable future.

 

Join us on the top floor of building E on Ring Road QUT Kelvin Grove campus. Register and find more information and the symposium agenda here:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/yimbaya-maranoa-creating-resonant-echoes-from-country-tickets-682014251987?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

 

Agenda:

Symposium Program

 

10 am Symposium Opens

 

10.10am – 10.20am Dr Jen Seevinck

Welcome to the Symposium at QUT

Leader in the More Than Human Futures Research Group, Jen is an internationally recognised researcher and creative design practitioner, pioneering new understandings for audience experience with computer-based systems.

 

10.20 am – 10.40 am Saraeva Mitchell and Dr Vicki Saunders

Welcome and Invocation to Country

Saraeva Mitchell is a storyteller and Gunggari cultural keeper of knowledge who has worked with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for the past thirty-one years through Local, State and Federal Governments as well as Aboriginal Community Organisations such as legal service, domestic violence, health, housing, and youth services.

Dr Vicki Saunders, Indigenous arts researcher and story builder uses poetic inquiry and other arts informed research methods to listen to our evolving relationships with Country and to promote well-being and resipiscence with First Nations researchers, organisations, and communities.

 

10.40 am – 11 am Introducing the Remapping Mitchell Collective with video/audio works.

 

11.30 am – 11.45 am Keynote – Dr Michelle Maloney

The Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) is Michelle’s primary platform for working across a range of multi-disciplinary, ecocentric projects and networks. As Co-Founder and National Convenor of AELA, Michelle manages the strategic direction and governance of the organisation, including the extensive partnerships and networks that AELA has with legal, Indigenous, academic, and environmental advocacy communities.

 

11.45 am – 12 pm Co-facilitators of the Remapping Mitchell Collective

Dr Jude Roberts and Vernessa Fien address the evolvement and continuing reverberations of the Collective and its projects. Vernessa is an artist based in the Maranoa and descendant of both Gunggari and Bidjara from the Maranoa District in Southwest Queensland. She has been involved in the facilitation of many community events and curatorship of exhibitions and is passionate about the Arts to promote the importance of understanding and acknowledging First Nations people, and custodians of cultural heritage of the area. Jude has lived and worked across the Maranoa region since the 1980’s and is now based in Brisbane. She facilitates various arts related projects and workshops and has continued to make connections with the land and people of Mitchell since her move to Brisbane. Her focus is about collaborating and creating work in different communities to contribute to the understanding and appreciation of inland water environments.

 

12 pm – 12.30 pm Artists Panel facilitated by Dr Vicki Saunders

Vernessa Fien, Saraeva Mitchell, Jude Taggart Roberts, Dr Anastasia Tyurina, Donna Malone, Deena Dodd, Dr Renata Buziak, Helen Hardess, Clare Cowley.

 

12.30 pm – 2 pm Break and the exhibition viewing at the Sphere and Interactive Data Wall

 

2 pm – 3 pm Creative Workshop. Drawing with neon and fluorescent materials workshop and Fluoro Booth Experience.

 

3pm – 3.30pm Closing notes, networking

 

3.30pm Symposium closes

Details:

Location: QUT Education Precinct, Kelvin Grove 149 Victoria Park Road Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059
Start Date: 21/08/2023 [add to calendar]
Start Time: 10am
End Time: 3.30pm
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