Reclaim the Void: Assemblage & Concert
Event description
Reclaim the Void weaves a connection for spirit on sacred lands | Likirri wiya palyara tjiltilku pimarra parnaku
Come join us and be part of creating this unique, collaborative artwork! Click on 'get tickets' to book your free spot - there are morning and afternoon sessions on each of the days. You can book in as many spots as you want - join us for the whole 5 days if you like! We need lots of volunteers!! Better still, make a group up and come together....
During Assemblage some 2500-3000 small circular rag rugs will be tied together into the component dots of a vast textile artwork. The process will be completed later this year in situ on Ngalia tjukurrpa parna - sacred country.
Note: we've been overwhelmed by the response to the call-out and we're nearly full. We may be able to accommodate more volunteers, so have created a waiting list.
Opening: Wednesday 03 July at 5pm (free - no need to book). Talks by project collaborators: Ngalia cultural leader Kado Muir and project director Vivienne Robertson.
Assemblage volunteer: Thursday 04 July to Monday 08 July (free, bookings essential). Morning session: 9:45am-12pm. Afternoon sessions: 1:30-3:45pm.
Concert in the rugs with Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse, supported by Lucy Ridsdale: Friday 05 July at 7pm. Tickets $33, limited places. A special concert under the blue whale, surrounded by rugs, with our dear friends Gina and Guy, and Reclaim the Void project artist sacred singer Lucy.
Assemblage volunteers: please bring a water bottle and a little kneeling pad/cushion (we will be working mainly on the floor). You will work in small teams helping us to colour sort rugs, and tie them together into 'dots'. No lifting is required, but the work involves some bending and sitting on the ground or kneeling. Suitable for 13 years +.
The vision of Reclaim the Void is to create a huge textile "dot" artwork, to lay on land affected by mining. The project was born from hearing the grief of Ngalia elders about those gaping mining holes 'left all over our country'. The finsihed artwork, inspired by a painting by passed Ngalia elder and custodian for country, DW, will express a story of country. It will be created from 3000 hand-woven rugs made from discarded fabric by people of all walks of life from around Australia and beyond.