River kin with Professor Bradley Moggridge, Dr Kirsten Wehner, chaired by Zoë Sadokierski
About the session
What can a river teach us when we trace the entangled relationships that constitute its intelligence—between water, sediment, species, and seasons? And how might sitting with that complexity open up ways of thinking, making and caring, that take seriously the more-than-human?
Join Indigenous Water Science researcher Bradley Moggridge and artist, curator and researcher Kirsten Wehner for a panel discussion on the provocations prompted by waterways, facilitated by Zoë Sadokierski, Bodies of water program academic lead and designer, writer, creative producer and educator.
The discussion will be followed by a collage session addressed to bodies of water.
A separate screening of the short documentary More than a Fish Kill (2024), co-produced by the National Museum of Australia, the Cad Factory and Otis Filley Studios, follows the session.
RSVP to More than a Fish Kill's film screening here.
About the public program
Bodies of water is a free learning program presented in parallel with the UTS Gallery exhibition A river runs through (5 May – 29 August 2026) by Spence Messih.
Time & Locations
- 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Panel discussion
UTS Gallery, CB06.04.358, (Building 6, Level 4, 702 Harris St, Ultimo)
- 12:45 pm - 1:30 pm
'Dear bodies of water' collage session
DAB Research Seminar Space, CB06.06.038 (Building 6, Level 6, Room 638)
About the Presenters
Professor Bradley Moggridge
Bradley Moggridge FTSE FRSN, is a proud Kamilaroi man living on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra. He is a Professor of Science and Associate Dean (Indigenous) at UTS. He was previously an Associate Professor (Indigenous water science) at UC, and holds a PhD Science (UC), MSc Hydrogeology (UTS) and BSc Environmental Science (ACU). He is a Fellow of ATSE and Royal Society NSW, is the Immediate Past President Australian Freshwater Science Society (President 2022-24), an Alumni of the International Water Centre and was appointed as a Lead Author by IPCC for WG1 Chapter 10. He has 29 years of experience in Indigenous water and environmental science, climate change, cultural science, regulation, water planning and biodiversity. He hopes to encourage future Indigenous generations to pursue science and promote his ancestors' knowledge of Country.
Dr Kirsten Wehner
Dr Kirsten Wehner is an artist and curator based in Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country/Canberra. Her practice centres on how embodied research and creative responses might evolve people's relationships with waterways in more empathetic, caring and site-specific ways, with projects encompassing visual arts, place-based installation, participatory experiences, writing and museum practice. Kirsten is an Affiliate of the Sydney Environment Institute at The University of Sydney and Co-Chair of the Board of the Cad Factory, an independent socially engaged arts organisation. She was formerly the James O. Fairfax Senior Fellow in Culture and Environment and Head Curator, People and the Environment, at the National Museum of Australia.
Chair
Associate Professor Zoë Sadokierski
Zoë Sadokierski is a designer, writer, creative producer and educator in Visual Communication at UTS Faculty of Design & Society. Her practice-based research explores ways that visual communication–particularly illustrated nonfiction, multimedia storytelling and anarchival collage–can be used to engage audiences with difficult scientific and cultural issues.
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