Beth Arnold with Climate Aware Creative Practices Network, Relational Ecologies Laboratory, at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, as part of the exhibition, The Charge That Binds, Saturday 7 December 2024 – Sunday 16 March 2025, curated by Shelley McSpedden.
The Relational Ecologies Laboratory was presented by CACP Network members and artists Katie Lee, Mark Friedlander, Beth Arnold, Terri Bird and Clare McCracken with CACP curator Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris. The Laboratory was a relational artwork staged over the three months of the exhibition, in which network members built an inventory and do what climate aware artists do best; work across precarious platforms, sharing, reworking, collaborating and understanding the materiality of artistic circular economies. The Lab could be thought of as a sculptural work, a residency, an incubator and a publicly focused exhibition working space.
Documentation of Lab Notations session, held in the Relational Ecologies Laboratory, featuring distributed text artwork by Katie Lee, text/t-shirt series. Participating students: Juilette Wehling (RMIT), Aditi Singh (Deakin University), and Aisyah Fardinansyah (Deakin University).
This photograph was taken during the Relational Ecologies Intensive 21-22 February 2025. Presented by the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne in collaboration with Climate Aware Creative Practices Network.
Photographs: Lucy Foster