I acknowledge and pay respect to custodians – past present and emerging – on sovereign Dharawal Wodi Wodi land where I live and conduct this creative practice. I extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. As a beneficiary of a colonial continuum and the resulting disproportionate distribution of wealth across this continent – I Pay the Rent – and invite you to do so too.

Bianca Hester

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Bianca Hester’s practice explores entanglements of materiality, place and the forces of ecological change across timescales, producing expansive artworks that cultivate new modes of attentive, relational embodiment amid the pressures of climate crisis.

Recent work investigates interconnections between colonial inheritance, extraction, environmental crisis, evolution and extinction across the Australian continent. Employing situational methodologies – she combines experimental fieldwork, engaging the geologic record, site-writing, sculptural production, collaboration and performed actions – to develop projects that unpack the material conditions of specific places. This results in an expansive form of public art unfolding in dialogue with a range of interlocutors and participants.

Converging in time (2017)

PUBLICATION DATE
2017

Converging in Time was published on the occasion of the exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art between 11 February - 10 April 2017

PUBLICATION DETAILS
Published by MUMA (Melbourne) and distributed by Perimeter Books
384 pages, 26 cm x 20 cm, soft-cover, MUMA (Melbourne).
ISBN: 978-0-9945213-4-7
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CONCEPT
Open Spatial Workshop

DESIGN
Paul Mylecharane and Ziga Testen

TEXTS
Dr Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Saskia Beudel (Emily Carson Institute Fellow, Munich), Matt Poll (Curator Indigenous Heritage and Repatriation Project, Macleay Museum, University of Sydney), Charlotte Day (Director, MUMA), new essays and textual works by Open Spatial Workshop.

FUNDED BY
Creative Australia (formerly Australia Council of the Arts)
AWARDS
This publication received the following awards in 2018:
Winner of the Museums Australia Publication Design Awards for major exhibition catalogue, 2018
A finalist in the Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing, 2018
Winner of the AAANZ best University Art Catalogue.

Anthropogenic, Archive, Basalt, Brick, Bronze, Colonial continuums, Coal, Concrete, Cosmic, Deep time, Digging, Dirt, Dust, Embodiment, Extractivism, Extinctions, Floor, Fossil, Fragment, Geologies, Groundwork, Installation, Materiality, Object, People, Performance, Permian, Place, Plant life, Process, Meteorite, Moving, Moving image, Rubbings, Sandstone, Sculpture, Singular objects, Site, Sociality, Steel, Still image, Textual, Triassic, Walking, Wall.