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Reading walking lithic bodies: An alternative mapping experience
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Visual Arts & Installations | Talks & Workshops
Reading walking lithic bodies: An alternative mapping experience
PAST EVENT

WHEN

29 JANUARY
$20

WHERE

Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum of Contemporary Art

Due to the current wave of COVID, this event has been cancelled. The Museum of Contemporary Art will be in touch with ticket holders shortly to arrange refunds.

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Take part in an intimate collective walk to different locations around Tallawoladah (The Rocks) with artist Bianca Hester as you reflect on the entanglement of social and environmental forces in each place – and the way colonial inheritance, environmental crisis, evolution and extinction bind them together.

Combining listening, walking and tactile engagement, this event also draws on Hester’s artistic process of making rubbings and castings of rock surfaces. New writing by the artist, along with extracts from her books Sandstone (2020) and Groundwork (2021), will be spoken in fragments by multiple voices as part of the journey.

The experience will culminate inside the MCA where Hester’s installation Constellating bodies in temporary correspondence is on display. Reading walking lithic bodies responds to the volcanic field of Tāmaki Makarau Auckland (where Constellating bodies in temporary correspondence was made) and the sandstone geology of the Sydney Basin (where the work now resides).

This performance will be followed by a free book launch for Hester’s new book Groundwork at the MCA at 11.30am.

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

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Ticketing & Pricing

General Admission $20
MCA Members & Concessions $16

Location

Museum of Contemporary Art 140 George Street, The Rocks New South Wales

Performance Times

Sat 29 January at 9:45am
Meet at MCA Forecourt

Accessibility

The walk will commence outside the MCA Forecourt and will move to multiple locations in The Rocks, up to Observatory Hill and back to the museum. Please be aware this performance involves walking on uneven cobblestone and narrow pathways, medium inclines, moderately steep staircases and grassy areas.

Please CONTACT THE MCA DIRECTLY if you require further information about accessibility.

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