Reflections on Yurt Empire and the necessity for messy joyful collaboration

For G is for Growth, Season is excited to presenting a two part conversation Reflections on Yurt Empire.

In 2012, Sydney, along with all major cities across Australia and certainly globally, was experiencing an excoriating real estate bubble that was wiping out decades of carefully curated pockets of artist habitat in the inner city urban environment. In response, Yurt Empire - a collective of artists, architects, writers and creatives led by Bek Conroy - was formed.

By using the engineering excellence and simplicity of the Yurt to inspire the design and construction of 6 dwellings made by 6 artist teams, Yurt Empire would endeavour to install them on a waste land sites slated for redevelopment in the south of Sydney - including what has become the Joynton Avenue Creative Centre and is now Season.

The project would unfortunately be deemed impossible, with the brokering of sites failing in the hands of private ownership and bureaucracy.

For this conversation series Yurt Empire will come together for the first time in over a decade to discuss; interdisciplinary collaboration, disrupting predictable outcomes, relations to Country in the context of precarious living and housing, the origins of Yurt Empire and what has transpired since.

NOVEMBER 21 - Saturday 2pm-4pm

Reflections on Yurt Empire and the necessity for messy joyful collaboration

With Bek Conroy , Ali Crosby, Clare Britton, Craig Johnson and Pia van Gelder,

Location: Season