Plastic-free Kandos, 2022, promotional flyer.
Social engagement work, Plastic-free Biennale (2020) in NIRIN, Biennale of Sydney, has been reactivated after the impact of covid-19 and reconfigured to present Plastic-free Kandos, at the WAYOUT ArtSpace, 2022! I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Lucas Ihlein & Kim Williams again and have Sydney based Artist, Rox De Luca, join the adventure to tour the project to the Kandos community! Plastic-free Kandos presents an immersive and colourful exhibition of multi-sensory elements as we continue to address the everyday problem of plastic waste!
Image: One of the sculptural pieces by Rox De Luca, in Plastic-free Kandos, 2022, Image: Rox De Luca.
WAYOUT ArtSpace visitors can wander through an exhibition that engages with plastics, from the domestic to the global. Assemblages and sculptures, prints, photos, videos and live performances tackle our sticky relationship with this useful but monstrous family of materials. The Plastic-free Kandos exhibition spotlights Rox De Luca’s beautiful and ominous sculptural works constructed from plastic-waste, that she gleans from the East Sydney coastline. The exhibition also features installation works by Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein, from Plastic-free Biennale, 2020. The project elements, all grappling with the plastic-waste problem; the Plastic-free Song performed by the Plastic-free Highlighters, video rap by MC McNanarchy, video, and sculptural installation by yours truly.
Image: Aunty Di Pirotta and her grandchildren in Rox De Luca’s workshop and creating with Sister GlitterNullius in WAYOUT ArtSpace, 2022, Image: Rox De Luca.
With community engagement workshops lead by Rox De Luca, opportunities to talk with the artists, bell-ringing blessings and damnations, up and down the main street of Kandos, joining the young ones in the workshops and prayerful interventions on opening night by the unapologetic Sister GlitterNullius!
Image: The Kandos Ukulele Group performed a fabulous rendition of the Plastic-free Song on Opening Night! Image: Rox De Luca, 2022.
Uncle Peter Swain Welcomed the project and visitors onto Dabee Land and the Plastic-free Kandos, Acknowledgement to Country was read by Rox De Luca. The Kandos Ukulele Group performed a fabulous rendition of the Plastic-free Song and the then Minister for the Arts, Benjamin Franklin, opened the exhibition to a crowd of artists and the Kandos community!
The Honourable Minister for the Arts, Benjamin Franklin, kneels before Sister GlitterNullius at the Opening of Plastic-free Kandos, WAYOUT ArtSpace, Kandos NSW, Image: June Golland, 2022.
With community engagement workshops lead by Rox De Luca, opportunities to talk with the artists, bell-ringing blessings and damnations, up and down the main street of Kandos, joining the young ones in the workshops and prayerful interventions on opening night by the unapologetic Sister GlitterNullius!
Image: Community members sculptural artworks made from plastic-waste, in workshops lead by Rox De Luca at the WAYOUT ArtSpace, Kandos NSW, June 2022. Image: Rox De Luca.
Plastic-free Kandos: a group project, stemming from Kim Williams & Lucas Ihlein’s Plastic-free Biennale (2020) in NIRIN, the Sydney Biennale. It brought a group project from the city to the regional town of Kandos in NSW. It was an amazing opportunity to share with the local community, an exhibition of installations, social engagement workshops, performance and artist talks.
There are many people to thank for getting this amazing project together – everyone who helped us install the works and promotional material, the Kandos community, Uncle Peter Swain, Aunty Di Pirotta; Videographer, Justin Hewitson, Songlark Cafe, Kandos High School, WAYOUT ArtSpace, Cementa Inc, CreateNSW, Arts Council Australia and Fortitude Illawarra who provided my NDIS Support Services to be part of this project.
Thanx for dropping by!
Your Friend, In & Out of Plastix,
Sister GlitterNullius X
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