In the face of the global condition of climate change, how do we engage in longer-term and speculative thinking? This is one of the provocations underpinning Vitalstatistix’s current five-year project Climate Century (2014-2018). Climate Century includes a series of commissioned artworks, projects and events that consider how we might memorialise the climate century.
Join us for a mid-winter Sunday afternoon of exploratory artist talks and conversation.
Fresh from presenting at Psi #22: Performance Climates conference in Melbourne, Sasha Grbich and Emma Webb will discuss the 2015 iteration of Climate Century, an exhibition of seven works presented with the South Australian Maritime Museum in November-December 2015.
This year’s commissioned artists, Jason Sweeney and Em Koenig and Emily Parsons-Lord will discuss their respective new works at the beginning of their creative development.
Sweeney’s Climate of Cruelty is seeking to honour the lives of the top ten animal species killed worldwide for food, in a song-cycle, experimental cinema piece and commemorative chamber concert.
Parsons-Lord’s There is Nothing Accidental or Surprising About This is a long term artwork that uses tree rings to record the human activity and changes to climate as a living memento mori, a memorial, a monument to this radical and rapacious Anthropocene.
2-5pm Sunday 17 July
Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide
No bookings required – entry by donation
Bar and hot vegan soup available
In the first iteration of Vitalstatistix’s long-term project Climate Century, we present an exhibition of multidisciplinary art works that imagine climate futures in the coastal and river environs of Port Adelaide and the LeFevre Peninsula.
Informed by the insight and foresight of local environmentalists, commissioned artists have conjured surprising, intriguing and beautiful interpretations of climate change that range from the melancholic to the utopian. The visual art, sound and live art works are presented alongside a month of public events and talks.
Presented in partnership with the SA Maritime Museum, the exhibition is the first public outcome of a five-year project (2014—2018) inviting artists to work with communities, scientists, environmentalists and others, to respond to the provocation: how will we commemorate and memorialise the climate century?
Dates: 12 November – 13 December
When: Thursdays 12-8pm & Fridays–Sundays 12-5pm
Where: Various Locations, commence from SA Maritime Museum, Lipson St, Port Adelaide.
When: Wednesday 11 November, 6-8pm
Where: SA Maritime Museum, 126 Lipson St, Port Adelaide.
When: Every Thursday, 5-7pm
Where: Departing from Adventuress Textiles, 116 Lipson St, Port Adelaide.
When: Every Sunday, 2-4pm
Where: Beginning SA Maritime Museum, 126 Lipson St, Port Adelaide
When: Sunday, 15 November, 12pm – 5pm
Where: Jackalope Studio Gallery, 19 Carlton St, Port Adelaide.
More details here
Or take some time out on your own with our Walking Guide, available at all the venues or online here.
This is a free event/s.
Join us for the public launch of the South Australian Branch of the National Trouble Makers Union (NTMU), with National Secretary of the NTMU, Bryan Dawe as Sir Murray Rivers QC.
A covert organisation for the past fifty years, now that Australia has hit rock bottom the time has come for the public declaration of the NTMU.
Presented by the NTMU and Vitalstatistix, what better place for such an auspicious occasion as the Waterside Workers Hall. Proceeds from the night will go towards trouble making, common decency and art unapproved by George Brandis QC.
Looking for trouble? You just found it.
7 August, 7.30pm
Waterside
11 Nile Street, Port Adelaide
Tickets $20 waged/$15 concession
Read our submission to the Senate Inquiry into the cuts to the Australia Council and the establishment of the NPEA here.
