Flying Arts Event Calendar Webinars
july
28jul3:30 pm4:45 pmTechnology & Country with Robert AndrewWebinar for Teachers & Educators

Time
(Thursday) 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
Your computer
Event Details
As a proud descendant of the Yawuru people, Robert Andrew’s art practice investigates histories that have been denied or forgotten. His work speaks to the past yet articulates a contemporary
Event Details
As a proud descendant of the Yawuru people, Robert Andrew’s art practice investigates histories that have been denied or forgotten. His work speaks to the past yet articulates a contemporary relationship to his Country.
In this webinar Robert Andrew will speak to his practice which combines programmable machinery with earth pigments, ochres, rocks and soil to mine historical, cultural and personal events that have been buried and distanced by the dominant paradigms of western culture.
This educator webinar links to the Cross-Curriculum priority of ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures’. This webinar offers a case study for how First Nations contemporary art practices can provide insight into the complex relationship between people, culture and Country. Robert Andrew’s use of technology may assist educators and their students to explore, understand and analyse how First Nations people sustain environments, histories, cultures and identities through and creating appropriate and sustainable solutions. In particular, the following Organising Ideas (OI) will be discussed:
- OI.2 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities maintain a special connection to and responsibility for Country/Place.
- OI.3 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have holistic belief systems and are spiritually and intellectually connected to the land, sea, sky and waterways.
- OI.6 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples live in Australia as first peoples of Country or Place and demonstrate resilience in responding to historic and contemporary impacts of colonisation.
- OI.8 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ family and kinship structures are strong and sophisticated.
Please bring:
- Questions to discuss with Robert about his work. You will have the option to provide these to Flying Arts in advance of the webinar.
- Note-taking materials (recommended).
Additional Information
About your facilitator: Robert Andrew is a descendant of the Yawuru people, his Country is the lands and waters of the Broome area in the Kimberley Region, Western Australia. His work investigates personal and family histories that have been denied or forgotten. Andrew’s work speaks to the past yet articulates a contemporary relationship to his Country. His work often combines programmable machinery with earth pigments, ochres, rocks and soil to mine historical, cultural and personal events that have been buried and distanced by the dominant paradigms of western culture.
august

Time
(Thursday) 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
Your computer
Event Details
Hear Eugenia Lim discuss her video, installation and participatory performance based art practice and recent projects on globalisation, diaspora and identity. This webinar is suitable for visual art educators, and people
Event Details
Hear Eugenia Lim discuss her video, installation and participatory performance based art practice and recent projects on globalisation, diaspora and identity.
This webinar is suitable for visual art educators, and people interested in the intersection of art, globalisation and national identities. This webinar links to the Cross-Curriculum priority of ‘Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia’. In particular, Organising Ideas (OI) 4-8 will be discussed:
- OI.4 The arts and literature of Asia influence aesthetic and creative pursuits within Australia, the region and globally.
- OI.5 Collaboration and engagement with the peoples of Asia support effective regional and global citizenship.
- OI.6 Australia is part of the Asia region and our histories from ancient times to the present are linked.
- OI.7 Australians play a significant role in social, cultural, political and economic developments in the Asia region.
- OI.8 Australians of Asian heritage have influenced Australia’s history and continue to influence its dynamic culture and society.
Please bring:
- Questions to discuss with Eugenia about her work. You will have the option to provide these to Flying Arts in advance of the webinar.
- Note-taking materials (recommended).
Banner image: Detail from Eugenia Lim’s ‘Shelter’ (2015).
Event Partner/s
About your facilitator: Eugenia Lim is an Australian artist of Chinese–Singaporean descent who works across video, performance and installation to explore how national identities cut, divide and bond our globalised world. Based on unceded lands in the Kulin Nation, Lim has exhibited, screened or performed at the Tate Modern, LOOP Barcelona, FIVA (Buenos Aires), Recontemporary (Turin), Kassel Dokfest, Museum of Contemporary Art (Syd), ACCA, Melbourne Festival, Next Wave, ACMI, FACT Liverpool and EXiS (Seoul). She has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre (NY), Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio, Gertrude Contemporary. She co-founded CHANNELS Festival and most recently, was the co-director of APHIDS. Eugenia Lim is represented by STATION.
Headshot photographed by Leah Jing.
september
01sep3:30 pm4:45 pmDigital Art & the Climate CrisisWebinar for Teachers & Educators

Time
(Thursday) 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
Your computer
Event Details
In this webinar, join Rachel O’Reilly as she discusses her practice as a settler artist, writer, curator and Phd candidate at Goldsmith’s Centre for Research Architecture. Rachel will discuss her
Event Details
In this webinar, join Rachel O’Reilly as she discusses her practice as a settler artist, writer, curator and Phd candidate at Goldsmith’s Centre for Research Architecture. Rachel will discuss her research project The Gas Imaginary (2013-2021), which used poetry, drawing, installation and moving image media to explore the difference of unconventional fossil gas (fracking) from colonial modern mining regimes. The final work, a feature-length installation INFRACTIONS (2019) platformed Indigenous cultural workers perspectives on fracking in Queensland and the Northern Territory and toured nationally in 2020-21.
This discussion is relevant to visual art educators teaching to the Australian Curriculum priority area of ‘Sustainability’, as well as those interested in learning about the relationship between art making, critique and sustainability. In particular, this webinar will link to Organising Ideas (OI) 3-9:
- OI.3 Sustainable patterns of living rely on the interdependence of healthy social, economic and ecological systems.
- OI.4 World views that recognise the dependence of living things on healthy ecosystems, and value diversity and social justice, are essential for achieving sustainability.
- OI.5 World views are formed by experiences at personal, local, national and global levels, and are linked to individual and community actions for sustainability.
- OI.6 The sustainability of ecological, social and economic systems is achieved through informed individual and community action that values local and global equity and fairness across generations into the future.
- OI.7 Actions for a more sustainable future reflect values of care, respect and responsibility, and require us to explore and understand environments.
- OI.8 Designing action for sustainability requires an evaluation of past practices, the assessment of scientific and technological developments, and balanced judgements based on projected future economic, social and environmental impacts.
- OI.9 Sustainable futures result from actions designed to preserve and/or restore the quality and uniqueness of environments.
Please bring:
- Questions to discuss with Rachel about her work. Please note you will have the option to provide these to Flying Arts in advance of the webinar.
- Note-taking materials (recommended).
Additional Information
About your facilitator: Rachel O’Reilly is a settler artist/writer/curator and Phd candidate at Goldsmith’s Centre for Research Architecture. Her work engages questions of subjectivity, governance and planetarity paying particular attention to language and the moving image. She teaches theory at the Dutch Art Institute, and is a current Fellow in Ecology at Sandburg Institute. Her artistic work has been presented at IMA Brisbane, UNSW, KW Berlin, ICA London, Van Abbemuseum, E-flux, Tate Liverpool, and Qalandiya International. Curatorial collaborations include The Leisure Class, GoMA; Moving Images of Speculation JvE; Ex-Embassy.com at the Former Australian Embassy to the GDR, Berlin, and ‘Planetary Records: Performing Justice between Art and Law’, Contour Biennale. From 2013-21 her artistic research project, The Gas Imaginary, used poetry, drawing, installation and moving image media to explore the difference of unconventional fossil gas (fracking) from colonial modern mining regimes. The final work, a feature-length installation INFRACTIONS (2019) platforming Indigenous cultural workers perspectives on fracking in Qld and NT, toured nationally in 2020-21. www.infractionsdocumentary.net