Reverence + Protest/MNEMONIC VEGETABLES:
17 FEBRUARY - 7 APRIL 2024 @ The Lock Up, Newcastle
with invited artists Kylie Caldwell, Helle Jorgensen, Immortal Soil, Sue Simpson, Shellie Morris, Emily Lubitz, Jennifer Williams, Tilly Hewett, Pedro Espi-Sanchis, Michelle Chapman, Chris Brown, Peta Lumley, Jaimee Frances Edwards…
In response to the potent site of the Lock-Up and Muloobinba/Newcastle as the world’s largest coal port and place of environmental activism, Haywood looks to co-venerate plant-human relationships through a symbiosis of protest and reverence.
MNEMONIC VEGETABLES helps us ‘remember’ our connection to the living plant world, Mother Earth and each other.
The works look at multi-modal mnemonics-or-memory devices, through our relationships to story, mythologies, melodies, dance, landscapes, the plant ‘Queendom’, ecologies and ourselves. Multi-layered stories of plant- knowledge, places, practices, materials, networks and collaborations are honoured through shared process, relationships and sometimes form.
MNEMONIC VEGETABLES combines botanical works, installation, multi-channel video, music, community workshops, performance, drinkables and exchanges.
17 FEBRUARY - 7 APRIL 2024 @ The Lock Up, Newcastle
with invited artists Kylie Caldwell, Helle Jorgensen, Immortal Soil, Sue Simpson, Shellie Morris, Emily Lubitz, Jennifer Williams, Tilly Hewett, Pedro Espi-Sanchis, Michelle Chapman, Chris Brown, Peta Lumley, Jaimee Frances Edwards…
In response to the potent site of the Lock-Up and Muloobinba/Newcastle as the world’s largest coal port and place of environmental activism, Haywood looks to co-venerate plant-human relationships through a symbiosis of protest and reverence.
MNEMONIC VEGETABLES helps us ‘remember’ our connection to the living plant world, Mother Earth and each other.
The works look at multi-modal mnemonics-or-memory devices, through our relationships to story, mythologies, melodies, dance, landscapes, the plant ‘Queendom’, ecologies and ourselves. Multi-layered stories of plant- knowledge, places, practices, materials, networks and collaborations are honoured through shared process, relationships and sometimes form.
MNEMONIC VEGETABLES combines botanical works, installation, multi-channel video, music, community workshops, performance, drinkables and exchanges.