Abstract
The Creative Practice Circle (CPC) from Charles Sturt University has been sharing arts-based research and practice for several years. 2020 was the year we planned to bring their collective work together in a locally held symposium and exhibition in the Riverina, a rural region in New South Wales, Australia, along with an online Special Edition publication on the theme “Listening in the Anthropocene.” The aim of the presentation is to show the diverse works of the CPC and their guests that were curated to be presented in the locale, the exhibition space and symposium venue in Wagga Wagga, and how they demonstrate common concerns across diverse field of practice, and the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary creative work around a theme. During the process of establishing themselves as a group of critical researchers and artmakers two webpages were created as vehicles of communication and documentation, as well as an online edition of academic writing and artworks, which respond to the ongoing online nature of the group. The intention of presenting artworks and ideas in a locale that resonates with the theme – in this case, the environment in crisis – has forged more global communication for the group by including online publication of the outcomes and artworks. The CPC members, as a research collective, have established themselves nationally and internationally as credible voices responding to world needs through their arts-based research.
Presenters
Jennifer MundayAssociate Professor, Faculty of Arts & Education, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2021 Special Focus - Voices from the Edge: Negotiating the Local in the Global
KEYWORDS
Arts-based research, Art and the environment, Global issues
