GRETEL TAYLOR
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FORCE OF NATURE

Seeking radical ways of engaging with nature through art, curator Gretel Taylor invited leading Australian performance and visual artists to respond to the theme ‘force of nature’, with an emphasis on participation and performance. Artists’ works related to the potency or influence of local environments on our lives and arts practices, referred to global environmental forces or climates, and responded to a situation of ‘post-nature’.
 
Force of Nature comprised an exhibition at Yarra Ranges Regional Museum and satellite events at local sites, September- October 2018.
 
Artists: Marnie Badham & Tammy Wong-Hulbert, Jill Orr, Peter Fraser, Myfanwy Hunter, Laki Sideris, Gulsen Ozer, Gretel Taylor, Gaby New, Melinda Smith & Tony Yap.

Force of Nature was proudly supported by Yarra Ranges Council. 
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Photo: Jill Orr, Antipodean Epic
Photographer Christina Simons (C) Jill Orr


The Force of Nature program included a grand opening featuring Welcome to Country by Ian Hunter, screening of Jill Orr's Antipodean Epic and live performances by Tony Yap, Melinda Smith and Myfanwy Hunter. Other events included Nature Dancing workshop led by Peter Fraser; and an art/nature forum, Picnic at the Lake, with guest scientific and Indigenous speakers, Environmental Performance Authority (EPA) performances and the artists in conversation.

Documentation of the opening: https://lakisiderisphotography.pixieset.com/forceofnature-opening/
Environmental Performance Authority (EPA), Heads in the Sand, for Picnic at the Lake, Lilydale 2018
Photos by Laki Sideris
  • Home
  • About
  • Current
  • performance works
    • A Blind Date with Blind Creek
    • Mountain to Mouth
    • Freak of nature
    • Divining Melbourne
    • Dances with Lyrebirds
    • Body of Water
    • Material Girl
    • Settling In/ It's MINE!
  • Video Works
    • Trespass
    • Scourge
    • Plateau
    • Hearth
    • Encroach
    • Still Landing
  • Curated projects
    • Poetics of Home
    • Dancing Between Two Worlds 2019
    • Force of Nature 2018
    • Dancing Place Wyndham 2016-17
    • Curtain Call, Glenorchy 2015-16
    • En route to Heathdale 2014-15
    • Flash Frogs! 2015
    • Scarecrows of Wyndham Vale 2014
    • Southern Ngalia 2009>
  • TEACHING
  • cv