Flying Arts Event Calendar: Webinars

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).

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).

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).