Standing on Solid Ground
Event description
STANDING SOLID GROUND
Beuys + Yunkaporta - An Experiential Workshop
Please join us on May 12 for a Symposium, Experiential Workshop of Joseph Beuys at Chapter House.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Tyson Yunkaporta
SPEAKERS
Stephen Hanman
Ian George
This Symposium and Experiential workshop is accompanied by an exhibition of work by Joseph Beuys, supported by Discordia Gallery.
Food for this event will be provided by Long Prawn
“Joseph Beuys was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.”
Sean Rainbird, Curator, Tate Modern
To mark the centenary of his birth in 2021, 100 years of Joseph Beuys, Joseph Beuys Cafe presents an Australian contribution to Beuys2021 celebrations.
What do our thoughts, our feelings and desires have to do with sculpture? Is art the only revolutionary force? Is the future a category of art? Are these even the questions we need to be asking? 100 years after the birth of Joseph Beuys the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is re-articulating these questions so fundamental to both his art and thought. As part of the centenary celebration »Beuys 2021. 100 years of Joseph Beuys« numerous exhibitions, actions and performances, plays, concerts, lectures and seminars are set to explore the equally fascinating and controversial ideas of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Some 25 institutions in 13 cities invite visitors to enter into conversation with Beuys and to examine his significance both for the international art world and for society at large. Most of all they inspire us to consider what democracy and freedom mean, how the relationship between politics and art might be thought of today and what is to be done.
Tyson Yunkaporta
Tyson Yunkaporta belongs to the Apalech Clan from Cape York and is a published researcher, poet and author and an exhibited artist and traditional maker. In his latest book is Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking can Save the World, Tyson looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently? Sand Talk provides a template for living. It’s about how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world.
Tyson Yunkaporta works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne.
Ian George
Ian George is a Founder of Joseph Bueys Cafe.
A patron of the arts, Ian has an interest in contemporary, Australian
and International, art and has supported numerous artists and art
exhibitions. He was active in bringing the exhibition 'Joseph Beuys
& Rudolf Steiner Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition' to the
National Gallery of Victoria in 2007.
Ian is interested in practical approaches to Beuys’ Social Sculpture and
Permanent Conference and how these can create impulses in society to
transform it in open, humane way in freedom.
Stephen Hanman
Stephen Hanman is a national thought leader in the collaborative conversation. His experience provides a proven new way to deliver projects and organisations where ‘WE all Win or no one Wins’.
He co authored a book with Ian George “From ME to WE; Design and Build Collaborative Workplaces” and it outlines his strategic collaborative capability that is based on psychological safety in a seamless integrated system.
All Stephen’s work is group based via facilitative organisational development focused on the individual. Organisations focused on human potential are the future.
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