TY - JOUR
T1 - Waiting for Water
T2 - An Art and Science Collaboration about Water in Three Regions of Australia
AU - Pirrie, Sarah
AU - Jackett, Amy
AU - Jones, Penelope J.
AU - Lyon, Suzie
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In many parts of Australia, water cycles can be fickle, bringing a sense of unpredictability and risk to our 'wait for water'. In the 2016 art exhibition, “Waiting for Water”, artists Sarah Pirrie (Darwin), Suzi Lyon (Alice Springs), and Amy Jackett (Hobart) visually responded to witnessing impacts of water changes in their local environments. Exhibited simultaneously in Darwin and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, and Lake St Clair in Tasmania, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue explored relationships with water across Australia, from the dry tropical Top End to arid Central Australia and the rugged topography of temperate Tasmania. The project included a collaboration with palaeoecologist Penny Jones, to bring an ecological perspective to bear on our artistic points of focus. Jones contributed three ecological essays in the exhibition catalogue, finding a commonality in societal learning through climatic variability. The aim of the project was to invite a collective discourse around our environmental future of waiting for water.
AB - In many parts of Australia, water cycles can be fickle, bringing a sense of unpredictability and risk to our 'wait for water'. In the 2016 art exhibition, “Waiting for Water”, artists Sarah Pirrie (Darwin), Suzi Lyon (Alice Springs), and Amy Jackett (Hobart) visually responded to witnessing impacts of water changes in their local environments. Exhibited simultaneously in Darwin and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, and Lake St Clair in Tasmania, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue explored relationships with water across Australia, from the dry tropical Top End to arid Central Australia and the rugged topography of temperate Tasmania. The project included a collaboration with palaeoecologist Penny Jones, to bring an ecological perspective to bear on our artistic points of focus. Jones contributed three ecological essays in the exhibition catalogue, finding a commonality in societal learning through climatic variability. The aim of the project was to invite a collective discourse around our environmental future of waiting for water.
KW - Interdisciplinary Art Collaboration
KW - Water Histories
KW - Art
KW - Climate Change
U2 - 10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v13i03/9-26
DO - 10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v13i03/9-26
M3 - Article
SN - 2326-9960
VL - 13
SP - 9
EP - 26
JO - The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
JF - The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
IS - 3
ER -