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HISTORY. Biennial site-specific outdoor sculpture symposium Ephemeral/temporal artworks International, national & local artists Commenced in 2001 Artists in Nature International Network (AININ). European Research.
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HISTORY • Biennial site-specific outdoor sculpture symposium • Ephemeral/temporal artworks • International, national & local artists • Commenced in 2001 • Artists in Nature International Network (AININ)
European Research • Major focus on events that involved artists working on site in nature over a period of 2 weeks – with a major social program and community interaction program • Explored the notion of the artist as a revered/respected person in the community
Evaluation – Floating Land 2001 • Difficulty of obtaining community support/nurturing in a large shire with a mix of sophisticated semi-urban and rural communities. • The notion of art as a separate object • The enormous resources in promotion required to sell a new concept • Lack of ownership by community
“A lot of the issues and organisational problems can and will be rectified in future events but the aim of increasing social development, cultural sophistication and cohesion in the broader community is one that is still elusive.”Kevin Wilson, first Artistic Director
Floating Land 2007 • Curatorial Rationale: ‘design focus’ • Review of the ‘intention’ of the art and concept • Photographers commissioned • IP shared with Noosa Regional Gallery
Firings event held at lake Cootharaba, enormous community response Firings by the Lake, Photographer: Adam Sebastian West
Rex Kaleholf, designer Photographer: Adam Sebastian West
Artist: Jill Chism Photographer: Adam Sebastian West
Artist: Jessica Huddart Photographer: Tony Wellington
Biosphere • In March 2007, UNESCO granted the Noosa region biosphere status. • Shortly after, the local governments of the region were amalgamated to form the Sunshine Coast Regional Council.
Object listed in NBL Constitution • Provide support for demonstration projects, environmental education and training, research and monitoring related to local, regional, national and global issues of conservation and sustainable development.
Systems Thinking/Approach • A systems approach encourages the exploration of the relationships between social, environmental and economic interactions. • This approach resists breaking a problem into its component parts for detailed examination. By examining the links and interrelationships of the whole system, patterns and themes emerge which offer insights and new meaning to the initial problem. • In a community engagement context, encouraging a diversity of views can lead to a new understanding of the situation and the identification of opportunities for action that may not have otherwise occurred. Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE), Victoria
Systems Thinking/Approach • Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static ‘snapshots’.The Fifth Discipline, The Art and Practice of the Learning Organisation, Senge, (Doubleday: 1990)
Floating Land – Rising Seas 2009 Curatorial rationale: • Relevance (not art for art’s sake) • Biosphere and MAP critical issues • Australia as a Pacific Ocean country • Problem with ‘conversation’ suddenly ending at end of event (‘seduction and abandonment’) • New Sunshine Coast regional government area wished to retain ‘village status’ • Creative economy • Capacity-building
Creative Production… • Oceanic, national and state-based artists, regional and local artists • New media/acoustic ecology (www.ecosonus.com) • Performance • Writing (Writing Floating Land)
Community engagement • Venue – small village in biosphere • Community meetings began 18 months in advance including local community associations & environment groups • Contributed to creative programming • Engaged local artists + mentoring • Addressed their community issues & helped find some solutions • Partnering of community with artists
Communities involved • Boreen Point to Sunshine Coast communities • Gubbi Gubbi • Vanuatu • Papua New Guinea • New Caledonia • New Zealand • Tuvalu • Tokelau • Takuu
Forums • Critical forums: Climate Change, Shifting Paradigms; Placemaking • Discipline based: Artist on art, writers on writing etc • Add content and perspective • Engage other communities • Stimulate conversations • Build networks
Documentation & workshops • Photographers • Sound artist • Writers • Videographer • Children's workshops • Artist and writers workshops and • Mentoring
Festivals Australia Arts Queensland Gordon Darling Foundation Mission aux Affaires Culturelles Air Calin Noosa Biosphere Ltd Heritage Building Society UQ QUT Central Qld University University Sunshine Coast TAFE Noosa Longweekend Earthcare Urban Art Projects Apollonian Social Club Partnerships
Research • Photovoice – University Sunshine Coast A visual research technique used to elicit and share a community’s values about being at the water’s edge in a time of climate change and rising sea levels.
Firings by the Lake, Gubbi Gubbi Dancers & Kari Photographer: Adam Sebastian West
Websitewww.floatingland.com.au • Global conversation (i.e.not Noosa specific) • Continually and strategically build new content • Develop database by continuing the conversation through new content • Triggers in content enable the spread through social networking processes & sites – builds larger database
ENGAGE SHARING/TRANSMISSION RE-ENGAGEMENT AGGREGATION & TRANSMISSION ENGAGEMENT ENGAGEMENT Floating Land methodology Issue for communication/resolution ArtistsScholarsCommunityAdvocates ‘place’ Deliberately create artworks (content) through collaboration New deliberate and inspired art Build on original content ArtistsScholarsCommunityAdvocates Critiques Re-interpret the created artworks and to create a second generation of artworks (photographs, music, writing) Wider audience via internet Aggregation through web-based processes & re-interpretation of the issue New interpretation of issue/context/people/place Social Networks(with wider social conscious)
Systems Thinking ‘Iceberg Model’ Leverage Event/s Events Trends and Patterns Interpretation Social/community networks Structure Mental Models Creativity Floating Land
Floating Land is… • A catalyst • Its intention is to pose an hypothesis then create/stimulate complex systems involving many interactions and generations of processes and products. • Through aggregation and distillation, each iteration may provide a resolution to the original hypothesis.
