HOTA Grasses Garden
The HOTA Grasses Garden was collaboration artists, scientists, and First Nations informants. The site-specific work was exhibited between Jan 2023 and September 2023 at HOTA (Home of the Arts) Gallery, on unceded Kombumerri Country, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, drawing attention to native grasses w...
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ftqueensland:oai:eprints.qut.edu.au:243690 2024-01-14T10:06:51+01:00 HOTA Grasses Garden Armstrong, Keith Davis, Donna Constance, Danielle Davies, Merinda Lickfold, Luke 2023-01-05 application/pdf https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243690/ unknown HOTA (Home of the Arts), Surfers Paradise, Qld https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243690/1/HOTA_Grass_Garden_Research_Statement.pdf https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243690/2/HotaGrassGarden2023.pdf Armstrong, Keith, Davis, Donna, Constance, Danielle, Davies, Merinda, & Lickfold, Luke (2023) HOTA Grasses Garden. [Artefact] https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243690/ Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice; School of Creative Practice free_to_read http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Consult author(s) regarding copyright matters This work is covered by copyright. Unless the document is being made available under a Creative Commons Licence, you must assume that re-use is limited to personal use and that permission from the copyright owner must be obtained for all other uses. If the document is available under a Creative Commons License (or other specified license) then refer to the Licence for details of permitted re-use. It is a condition of access that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. If you believe that this work infringes copyright please provide details by email to qut.copyright@qut.edu.au First Nations native grasses experimental area ecology environmental art socially engaged art Non-Traditional Research Output 2023 ftqueensland 2023-12-18T23:26:18Z The HOTA Grasses Garden was collaboration artists, scientists, and First Nations informants. The site-specific work was exhibited between Jan 2023 and September 2023 at HOTA (Home of the Arts) Gallery, on unceded Kombumerri Country, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, drawing attention to native grasses within a gallery context. The site at HOTA was located outside the Gallery main entrance in the HOTA Gallery sculpture garden, and included the native Australian grasses, Kangaroo Themeda triandra, Barbed Wire Cymbopogon refractus and Scented Top grass Capillipedium spicigerum. A public First Nations-led Yarning Circle event presented at Nerung Ballun/HOTA -, ‘Living Ecology’, built context for the work, with a strong focus on Care for Country - especially native grass and grasslands. In September 2022 the grasses were transplanted to a permanent outdoor site on the public amphitheatre green roof opposite the gallery, assuring the long-term continuance of the project. The project drew on Indigenous cultural, scientific, and artistic understandings to ask, how we might see and engage with Australian native grasses in new, equitable and ecological ways. Such notions of multispecies encounter with, and respect for plants are implicit within Australian Indigenous cultures and practices of ‘Caring for Country’ - and have proven to work because of the mutual responsibility and reciprocity alive in the broader cosmo-ecological frameworks of Indigenous traditional knowledge systems, which are fundamentally different to those of Western extractive colonialism. The sponsoring and planting of a small native grassland artwork/mound fostered a living site for this experimental art/ecology/education experiment whilst engaging a campaign built on partnership, respect, and care. Other/Unknown Material First Nations Queensland University of Technology: QUT ePrints The Gallery ENVELOPE(-86.417,-86.417,72.535,72.535) |
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The HOTA Grasses Garden was collaboration artists, scientists, and First Nations informants. The site-specific work was exhibited between Jan 2023 and September 2023 at HOTA (Home of the Arts) Gallery, on unceded Kombumerri Country, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, drawing attention to native grasses within a gallery context. The site at HOTA was located outside the Gallery main entrance in the HOTA Gallery sculpture garden, and included the native Australian grasses, Kangaroo Themeda triandra, Barbed Wire Cymbopogon refractus and Scented Top grass Capillipedium spicigerum. A public First Nations-led Yarning Circle event presented at Nerung Ballun/HOTA -, ‘Living Ecology’, built context for the work, with a strong focus on Care for Country - especially native grass and grasslands. In September 2022 the grasses were transplanted to a permanent outdoor site on the public amphitheatre green roof opposite the gallery, assuring the long-term continuance of the project. The project drew on Indigenous cultural, scientific, and artistic understandings to ask, how we might see and engage with Australian native grasses in new, equitable and ecological ways. Such notions of multispecies encounter with, and respect for plants are implicit within Australian Indigenous cultures and practices of ‘Caring for Country’ - and have proven to work because of the mutual responsibility and reciprocity alive in the broader cosmo-ecological frameworks of Indigenous traditional knowledge systems, which are fundamentally different to those of Western extractive colonialism. The sponsoring and planting of a small native grassland artwork/mound fostered a living site for this experimental art/ecology/education experiment whilst engaging a campaign built on partnership, respect, and care. |
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https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243690/1/HOTA_Grass_Garden_Research_Statement.pdf https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243690/2/HotaGrassGarden2023.pdf Armstrong, Keith, Davis, Donna, Constance, Danielle, Davies, Merinda, & Lickfold, Luke (2023) HOTA Grasses Garden. [Artefact] https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243690/ Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice; School of Creative Practice |
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