Stories from the Crevice Communities
The Murrumbidgee River from ‘The Rocks’ in Wagga Wagga. Pic by Bidgee/Creative Commons.
The Stories from the Crevice Communities Symposium was held in Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia, December 7-8, 2022, with associated activities in the days before and afterwards. The Symposium took place in-person on the Charles Sturt University campus (Building 21) and online via Zoom. One associated event – a live multimedia performance by Jacqui O’Reilly – took place at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. All of these events were free and open to the public.
The PDF version of the original program is available here, but note that there were some last-minute changes.
Keynote speakers – Symposium Dec 7-8
Sue Green
Language is more than words: The impact of the Graduate Certificate of Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage Sue Green is Professor in Indigenous Australian Studies and GCWLCH Co-ordinator.
Margaret Woodward and Camilla Brueton
moss.quarry.plaque: a soft echo of a place moss.quarry.plaque is a public artwork by Margaret Woodward and Camilla Brueton commissioned by the City of Hobart, installed within the City of Hobart’s’ Digital Twin, a searchable, interactive, three dimensional “map” of Greater Hobart. The Digital Twin is a data-rich environment built from…
Lee-Anne Hall
The Art Gallery – Leadership, Challenge and Change Keynote address Art Galleries and Museums are privileged sites of civil society with both responsibility and potential to lead and engage audiences in issues and challenges of consequence. This paper will outline the leadership taken by Wagga Wagga Art Gallery across two…
Associated events
Crevice Communities Exhibition
HR Gallop Gallery December 2022 An exhibition of work by invited visual artists will remain in place until the completion of graduation ceremonies on the Wagga Wagga CSU campus. Image above: Owen Lyons’ work installed in the gallery.
Yindyamarra walk
Symposium participants and members of the public are invited to join us on a walk guided by Wiradjuri man Lloyd Dolan on a “Yindyamarra walk” over the hill adjacent to CSU grounds. Meet at the Symposium venue in Building 21…
Altered books workshop
10am Mon Dec 5, 10am Tues Dec 6, 10am Fri Dec 9 Work on your own altered book with artist Bärbel Ullrich. Bookings essential via Registration form or by emailing barbelullrich@gmail.com.
Film night 22
Rekavidur – Iceland’s Stranded Forest Duration: 45 minutes Directors: Ines Meier, Inka Dewitz Synopsis The aim of our project „Rekaviður“ is to raise awareness for climate change in the Arctic region via the journey of driftwood, for the importance of…
Live multimedia performances
Jacqui O’Reilly – Return from Erasure + Louise Curham – Crevice communities – extending the life of expanded cinema 2.30pm Tues Dec 6, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery Jacqui O’Reilly Return from Erasure, 2022 Composition for live performance, sound, moving image,15…
Symposium presenters
Dr Bärbel Ullrich On altered books – the use and interplay of text and images
Altered books as a container of images, text and ideas that have trace and memory.
Diane Cass Finding Light in Unimaginable Darkness
During the early months of 2019 I received a life-changing diagnosis. What made this particularly uncommon, was the fact that all my children also received the same diagnosis. We very quickly found out that the disease is degenerative and incurable…
Working in mixed media with a focus on stitch, textiles and paper…
Frank Prem Ida: Searching For The Jazz Baby
Ida Pender, jazz dancer, associate and (ultimately) the 3rd and final wife of the notorious gangster Lesley ‘Squizzy’ Taylor in 1920’s Melbourne, will be revealed as a larger than life historical character in her own right…
This electro-acoustic sound & moving image performance is an immersive and reflexive time based experience and connects to the work of the same name exhibited at the Crevice Communities Exhibition 2021 …
Dr Jared van Duinen Worldbuilding as Historical Research: a Method for ‘Creative Histories’
This presentation mines the crevice between academic non-fiction history and fictional worldbuilding and explores ways in which the theory and method of academic history can be combined with creative methods and practice …
Jock Cheetham Behind “Running in to grief”
When someone suffers deep loss, they are left between the living and the dead. They become lodged between reticent neighbours and troubled strangers; without foundation, falling. The lucky ones may land in some barren crevice, searching for meaning …
Some art takes place in small, little-known, interdependent communities – crevices. Internationally, expanded cinema has flourished in a series of interconnected crevices but expanded cinema involves technology and live performance.
Lynette Callaghan Mental Health-Creating Program that Integrates Text within the Art Image
This investigation was initiated in response to a need, identified during the COVID-19 pandemic, for the provision of life enriching visual arts experiences to facilitate member well-being …
Owen Lyons Background to arts practice
Owen Lyons is a Wiradjuri artist and resident of Wagga Wagga. This talk gives an outline of his life story and how he became a visual artist…
Within Australia, art shapes understandings of and connections to place. Art defines individual and collective identities, especially in rural spaces, where people are defined in relation to land…
Roxanne Bodsworth My life as an Australian sheep farmer Irish-Australian poet
It was while hand-rearing seventeen merino lambs, each colour-coded with cat collars to tell me what formula they were on, that I was screaming “this is not what I want to be doing with my life!” Hence the decision to return to study…
Sam Bowker Golden Shadows: The Making of “The Alchemist’s Jar”
“The Alchemist’s Jar” (2022-2023) is a new shadow theatre concert with live music – original, historic, and contemporary – inspired by the storytelling traditions of Egyptian medieval shadow puppetry (khayal al-zill in Arabic, or…
Sandra Stewart Reflecting on process
Reflection invokes images of Monet paintings with floating water lilies, a peaceful meditative scenario. It can also be chaotic, scary, and a challenge for learners who wish to create art but do not have art’s building blocks…
Tracy Sorensen Can subaltern organs speak?
The ecological crises confronting the world today are supported by a way of viewing the material substance of the world as both infinitely exploitable and lacking in agency and value of its…