FIELD TRIP | Deep Listening and Making with Country with Palawa artist Jody Haines

This field trip explores deep listening, place-thought and time as a way of attuning to place.

FREE | Minibus from Platform Arts available (SEE ITINERARY)

Through creative methods—listening, writing, photography, dreaming—participants will attune to place and listen to and feel the Maribyrnong River, a living entity, on Kulin Country. 

Diving into the methods used by the artist to imagine and create her site-specific works, this workshop invites you to make camera-less photographs through a lumen process. Collaborate with time and the sun, share tea and conversation, and create portraits (either of self or with each other or with Country). After the workshop, Jody will process the lumens then scan and email you your image. 

Jody Haines (palawa) is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist whose practice is rooted in Indigenous feminist known materialism.  Jody’s work forms a dialogue between Country, body, and self through large-scale public art, projections, and photographic installations that explore themes of identity, representation, and the complexities of the female gaze.

Participants will take a minibus to Jody's workshop in Footscray, or they are welcome to join us at the location. Please ensure you select the option at checkout. 
The address will be shared closer to the workshop date.

Itinerary:

• Please arrive at Platform Arts at 10.00AM
• Bus departs shortly after
• Bus trip: 1hr
• Arrive in Footscray at 11.00AM
• Experience: 11.00AM - 1.00PM
  
• Lunch and final session: 1.00PM-3.00PM
  
• Arrive back at Platform Arts at 4.30PM

What to bring: 

• Comfortable shoes
• Pen 
• Writing pad
• Hat + Sunscreen
• Rain coat in case of weather changes 
• Water 
• Any personal items or medications you might need
• Camera/phone camera/tripod if you have one (to make your self-portrait)
• Your tools of creative exploration

A sheet of photographic paper and frame will be supplied.

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Please note: As this is a field trip, ensure that you bring anything you will need during this time. This workshop has limited accessibility. Please speak to our team if you have any questions or concerns: curator@platformarts.org.au. If you are catching the bus from Platform Arts, you will need to stay the duration of the field trip in order to catch the bus back with the group.

Field Trip is a series of encounters where participants join presenting artists on location, often traveling together from Platform Arts as a meeting point. It forges collaborative intergenerational connections, where artists share their site-based practice and speak to the importance of place in their work and self.

Platform Arts acknowledges that Field Trip takes place on the unceded lands of the Wadawurrung, Eastern Maar, Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and the Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their language, art and culture, and acknowledge their people as the first artists and Custodians of this land. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and extend these respects to all First Nations people and their Elders, past, present and emerging.

Field Trip is conceived by Professor Rea Dennis. 2025 field trips are co-curated by Rea Dennis and Amber Smith. 

This project has been supported by a City of Greater Geelong Community Grant.