Under the Artistic Directorship of Iain Grandage, the 2024 Perth Festival is inspired by the theme of Ngaangk (a Noongar word meaning sun or mother). Giver of life and light, Ngaangk is the ultimate creator – rising, surely, each morning at dawn to break the still darkness of night. Ideas of light and perception, so critical to the experience of the visual arts, punctuate the 2024 Perth Festival program, across a series of projects that encourage consideration of related themes of sustainability, growth and nourishment, and the tension between heat as both a creative and destructive force.
Wetland by Linda Tegg, working in consultation with Balladong Whadjuk yorga elder Vivienne Hansen, is an experiential artwork that broadens Linda’s practice of assembling plant communities within the built environment and Vivienne’s experience developing and sharing her unique knowledge of indigenous medicinal and edible plants.
Once a thriving nexus of consumer culture, built between land reclaimed from the Swan River and a chain of infilled lakes, the vacated Carillion City now awaits a new occupation. Here, within the expansive space of a former food court, audiences encounter a community of edible plants that once thrived in the wetlands where a dry Perth now stands.
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February 09, 2024 09:10 AMUntil
March 03, 2024 09:11 AMVenue
Carillon City, PerthAddress
Carillion City arcade, entrance via Hay Street mall, Perth CBD 6000