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28 August 2020
Voices from the Southern Ocean and their relatives on land:
A Living Data presentation for "Listening in the Anthropocene,"
an event convened by Creative Practice Circle, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Writer and artist Leanne Lovegrove tells her story for the exhibition and symposium, 'Listening in the Anthropocene', at Charles Sturt University in Wagga where Leanne trained to be a librarian. Here she speaks from the Eora TAFE Library where she works.
Lisa Roberts and Leanne Lovegrove share stories that give voice to creatures from the Southern Ocean and their relatives on land: the Antarctic krill and the Australian echidna. Their stories are held in the Lunar Time Library,a vessel for bringing together Indigenous and Western knowledge of ourselves as part of nature.
Leanne : I am a woman of the Worimi, Biripi Nation, born in Sydney and raised in the Thungatti Nation. My mother Lena Miranda is an Aboriginal woman and the union of Susan Dingo and a Mauitius guard at Trial Bay Goal, last name Miranda. My father George Lovegrove is of English, Scottish and Irish blood. Writing and visual arts are my vocations, as well as being the librarian at Eora College of TAFE. I trained to be a librarian at the Charles Sturt University. The red-bellied black snake and the echidna are my totems.
Lisa: I was born on Norfolk Island to an Aboriginal mother and an English father. My mother's mother hid her identity from her children in an effort to protect them. I was told I was lucky to be born white. Like many people dispossessed of knowledge of their Indigenous language and country, I feel driven to reconnect stories that sustained Aboriginal Australia for tens of thousands of years - physically, socially and spiritually. I lead the Seeding Treaties project to bring together knowledge from art and science, of ourselves as part of nature. My hope is that the Living Data Library inspires people to make their own libraries from stories that come from their relationships with the natural world.
Lisa's and Leanne's work in the Listening in the Anthropocene online exhibition can be seen here.
The Creative Practice Circle at Charles Sturt University holds an online symposium on the theme of “Listening in the Anthropocene” on Friday 28th August 2020 in Wagga Wagga, NSW.
The symposium explores the act and idea of listening to the land, to others, to difference, as encountered in embodied and virtual spaces. The Creative Practice Group hosts the symposium in conjunction with a collaborative exhibition initiated at the H.R. Gallup Gallery.
We ask how we might attempt to understand or interpret what is being said in languages we do not understand? How might we resist - even if just for a moment - adding our own noise to the noises of the neoliberal project of the Anthropocene: the clashing music of the shopping mall; the voices of AI; the shock jock; the brand; the celebrity; the power tools; the leaf blowers; the lawn mowers; the bulldozers; the mining blasts. How might we listen out, or tune in, to the small, the subtle, the unnoticed, the dying, the unusual, the banal, the mad, the unexpected?
The two keynote speakers for the symposium are Mandy Martin, Artist and Honorary Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society and ANU, and Margaret Woodward, Artist and Adjunct Professor from Charles Sturt University.
The Creative Practice Circle website, accessed Friday 23 October 2020
Download the full program and catalog for the online symposium:
Listening in the Anthropocene 2020 Program
