TRESPASS
A video work Gretel has created with videographer Leonie Van Eyk that has been several years in gestation across many unauthorised and unceded sites, is currently part of UPWELLING exhibition at Lot 19 Gallery in Castlemaine.
UPWELLING includes works by John Wolseley, Cameron Robbins with Masion Lapalus, Zoe Amor, Ilka White, Alvin Briggs, Gretel Taylor and Leonie Van Eyk and Dale Cox, curated by Brodie Ellis and Mark Anstey. This exhibition brings ancient and new knowledge, ideas and actions to the surface of the climate change struggle. Upwelling opened Thursday 5th March and finishes on 22nd March, 2020.
https://www.facebook.com/events/194205555009939/
Images: stills from video by Leonie van Eyk, featuring Gretel Taylor in sites in Tasmania, TRESPASS, 2016-2020
UPWELLING includes works by John Wolseley, Cameron Robbins with Masion Lapalus, Zoe Amor, Ilka White, Alvin Briggs, Gretel Taylor and Leonie Van Eyk and Dale Cox, curated by Brodie Ellis and Mark Anstey. This exhibition brings ancient and new knowledge, ideas and actions to the surface of the climate change struggle. Upwelling opened Thursday 5th March and finishes on 22nd March, 2020.
https://www.facebook.com/events/194205555009939/
Images: stills from video by Leonie van Eyk, featuring Gretel Taylor in sites in Tasmania, TRESPASS, 2016-2020
DANCING BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
What does it mean to be Indian and Australian? This was a central question of a research project co-directed by Gretel Taylor and Shaun McLeod through Deakin University using creative arts as its methodology. The project proposes a notion of ‘mobile citizenship’, realising that diasporic communities are navigating between complex cultural and locational identities, or ‘dancing between two worlds’. The project offered a space to explore Indian and Australian/‘western’ performance traditions to forge hybrid intercultural combinations. A series of creative exchange workshops in 2018 led to a collaborative performance entwining forms and values. Reframing recognisably Indian customs and performance practices, merging these with western approaches and situating these outcomes in Wyndham public spaces, we seek to positively acknowledge Indian presence and complexity in the Wyndham community. The participatory nature of the walking performance aimed to give audiences an immersive taste of both this place and the Indian-Australian cultures who inhabit it. More info: Dancing Between Two Worlds 2019
Photo by Laki Sideris featuring Joshinder Chaggar, dancing Between Two Worlds, Werribee, November 2019
Photo by Laki Sideris featuring Joshinder Chaggar, dancing Between Two Worlds, Werribee, November 2019