Dear Agnes
Year: 2023
Year: 2023
‘Dear Agnes’, was a contemporary public art program that featured site-responsive works by 12 artists and collectives for nine days over three weeks (Friday 10 March – Sunday 26 March 2023) at Truganina Explosives Reserve, Altona.
The artworks and public programming will respond and pay homage to local landscape-inspired themes and 'A Forest for Australia', a land artwork by one of the world's leading environmental artists, New York-based Agnes Denes, commissioned as part of 'The Bridge' in 1998.
In 1998, Denes was invited by the International Artists’ Museum (Melbourne office) to collaborate on a new project, The Bridge (Construction in Process IV). What resulted was a ‘forest’ of 6000 endangered tree species planted into five spirals at the Greater Western Water Site on Queen Street, Altona Meadows.
To celebrate the artwork's 25th anniversary, the ‘Dear Agnes’ project will bring to light the work of this prolific artist as well as provide an ongoing legacy through the generation of new ideas by contemporary public artists in response to Denes’ work.
Alongside the exhibition there will be, artists talks, creative workshops, live music and tours of the 'A Forest for Australia', artwork site by Greater Western Water.
Michelle Cox, Chispa Flaskas, Natasha Gardos, Ainslie Peverell & Meg Stewart-Snoad, Caleb Hardy & Jess Phillips, David Murphy, Amal Laala, Overlapping Collective - Forest Keegel & Annee Miron, James Price, PIPS - Catherine Magill & Vivienne Tate, Ana Sanchez, Autumn Tansey, Victoria Vyvyan
The project is presented by Hobsons Bay City Council in partnership with Deakin University, RMIT University and Greater Western Water.
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PIPS (Performance in Public Space) Catherine Magill and Vivienne Tate
PIPS (Performance in Public Space) Catherine Magill and Vivienne Tate
PIPS (Performance in Public Space) Catherine Magill and Vivienne Tate
Chispa Flaskas
Chispa Flaskas
Chispa Flaskas
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Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.