Art After Dark – Listening = Healing
Dates & Times
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
5–9 pm
Program
When you listen deeply, carefully and consciously, what do you hear? Communities practice deep listening as way of connecting with the land and each other. Enacted as a respectful practice, deep listening enables the blurring of edges of the human in the environment. Deep listening activates our awareness of environmental needs, healing our relationship with the more than human. It is a practice of felt and embodied intuition and knowledge.
5.30 pm – Gathering (walk) with Paschal Daantos Berry
Paschal Daantos Berry arrived at a curatorial practice through dramaturgy, performance and creative writing. In this walk he explores notions around healing through a reading of personal unpublished text fragments and an informal conversational exchange with the audience.
6–6.45 pm – Wednesdays Up Late at Galleria Campari (live music)
Campari has collaborated with Sydney musician and composer Megan Alice Clune to bring you Wednesdays Up Late at Galleria Campari. Megan has curated a 13 week program of experimental, ambient and new classical music from both emerging and established Sydney/NSW musicians that will be framed with projections by artist, Carla Zimbler. Join us in Galleria Campari and experience the diverse landscape of Sydney and NSW music alongside mesmerising projections.
Performance by Rydeen starts at 6.15 pm.
6–6.30 pm – Knowledge Holders (talk) with Alessandra Pomarico
Let us connect through Listening and Healing across time, space and place. Listening – as praxis of community building, to decolonise our practices, and as a way to exercise intuition, resonance, connection, both on a personal and collective level. Healing – the colonial wound and ongoing traumas of modern capitalist ways of life. How can we repair, mend and regenerate our ecosystems, moving toward an otherwise, together? A conversation grounded in the learning that emerged through artistic investigations and experiments in commoning with #free home universty #ecoversties alliance # healing faju (the new alphabet school) #fireflyfrequencies #casadelleagriculture
6.45–7.15 pm – Assembly (performance) with Haines & Hinterding
A Deep Listening Activity with 23rd Biennale of Sydney participants Haines & Hinterding. This activity will explore the electromagnetic environment by way of simple instruments designed to resonate with energy fields, we will listen to both manmade and naturally occurring manifestations of this pervasive force that surrounds us in a sea of energy.
7.30 pm – Projector (film)
Thirsty and Drowning In America Year: 2021
49 minutes
USA
Director: Adrian Parr
Drought, flooding, and contamination. Native Americans have had it all. They may have been beaten, bullied, victimised, and killed, but they are still fighting. As the seas rise, the ice melts, and resource extraction pollutes their land and waterways the stakes are getting higher. Today they are on the frontlines of environmental activism. From the water protectors at Standing Rock to the climate refugees of Isle de Charles, Louisiana and Shishmaref, Alaska this film gives voice to the untold stories of the water challenges Native American communities are facing, featuring heart-tugging conversations with community members.