Bankstown Arts Centre produced this short video of us introducing The Plantiness of Bankstown. The video is part of a YouTube series presenting all the artists in Symbiosis, the inaugural Bankstown Biennale. There are important tips, such as finding mulberries and spotting ibis.
This project welcomes you to walk noticing how plants shape the ways we look at, feel about, and imagine Bankstown. It consists of six invitations to envisage the neighbourhood in more planty ways. Plants make our lives possible, and are central to crucial issues: climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, food production, pollution. Walking produces embodied ways […]
Our research for the Bankstown Biennale began with a walk. We began by following our familiar allies, the dragon fruit plants, which we first met mapping Marrickville.
Our project welcomes you to walk noticing how plants shape the ways we look at, feel about, and imagine Bankstown. It consists of six invitations to envisage the neighbourhood in more planty ways. Plants make our lives possible, and are central to crucial issues: climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, food production, pollution. Walking produces embodied ways […]
For the Bankstown Biennale This project welcomes you to walk noticing how plants shape the ways we look at, feel about, and imagine Bankstown. It consists of six invitations to envisage the neighbourhood in more planty ways. Plants make our lives possible, and are central to crucial issues: climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, food production, pollution. […]