A Fleshy-rooted Perennial
Event description
A FLESHY-ROOTED PERENNIAL
Alex Last and Contemporary Art Tasmania invite you to participate in a rehearsal of sensory experience,
visualisation, and dialogue that delves into ecological entanglement.
In this globalised world, living on stolen country, what does it mean to put down roots? If we commit to this landscape, what alternate ways of sensing and processing the world might help us build a more regenerative lutruwita?
Tickets are for a rehearsal led by Alex Last, where participants will become responsible for, and
familiar with, an Agapanthus plant. Misunderstood and often reviled, its name in English is derived from the
Greek: agapē, meaning “love” and anthos, meaning "flower.” In order to grow both outward and inward, participants
will become-other; rehearsing a relation with these uprooted vegetal beings to better comprehend their own mineral
entanglements, energetic dependencies and ecological possibilities.
Venue:
Contemporary Art Tasmania - 27 Tasma St, North Hobart
Rehearsal times:
13:00 – 14:00; Saturday, 7 August 2021
16:00 – 17:00; Saturday, 7 August 2021
16:00 – 17:00; Sunday, 8 August 2021
Participants are invited to book one session from the above times.
***Further rehearsals will be hosted throughout August. After participating in the introductory session, you will
receive an invitation to take part in additional follow-up sessions
Access:
Please get in contact directly with Venue and Organisers if you have any concerns regarding
the accessibility of this event - Email: lisa@contemporaryart.org.au & alexlast@outlook.com
For more information on the month-long program Rehearsing the Future, please visit:
https://contemporaryarttasmani...
Contemporary Art Tasmania acknowledges the original and traditional owners of the lands around us, the muwinina and palawa; we pay respect to their elders across all times and recognise today's Tasmanian Aboriginal families as custodians of lutruwita / Tasmania.