Events
Performance
Home Bound
Performance
Home Bound
Date: Saturday 16 November 2024, 11am—3pm
Event Information
In Home Bound, diverse rope materials and practices are woven together to create a massive social tapestry. Members of different communities who do not typically share the same space collaborate to build a giant rope installation.
As the fibres intertwine, Home Bound enacts the social entanglement of life in Naarm/Melbourne. It is a choreography of knots that represents social dialogue, the negotiation of differences, and a testament to co-existence. You’re invited to get involved by donating materials, watching the creation process or participating in workshops to help create the tapestry itself.
Workshop
Footscray Community Arts are proud to hosting a Home Bound workshop with Yufang Chi.
As a Taiwan-born artist based partly in Melbourne, Yu-fang works with weaving, textile, silversmithing, sculpture, and installation to explore contemporary issues such as environment, migration, and the passage of time.
In this workshop, Yu-fang will encourage participants to engage with textiles and weaving as a way to share their stories and experiences as migrant communities through a specific project of hers focussing on migratory birds.
Donations
Are you a weaver? Knitter? Rigger? Sailor? Ropeworker? Or the owner of a shed full of abandoned fibres in need of a new home? Home Bound is calling for donations of ropes and weaving fibres from across Melbourne to become a part of this one-of-a-kind installation.
So, dig through your sheds, scout your homes, and bring your materials our way.
Home Bound is the 9th Betty Amsden Participation Program – large-scale community events designed to engage diverse communities, break cultural and economic barriers, inspire civic and public participation and build community pride.
Homebound is part of the AsiaTOPA 2025 program.
Date: Saturday 16 November 2024, 11am—3pm
Location: Footscray Community Arts
Home Bound is made possible by:The Betty Amsden Endowment
Principal Sponsor: DECJUBA Foundation
Project Partner: Craft Victoria
Date & Times
- When
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Saturday 16 November, 11:00 am-3:00 pm
- Venue
- Footscray Community Arts
- Cost
Free
Accessibility
While our heritage building and outdoor spaces pose challenges, we’re actively seeking solutions and value your input. Our warehouse venues are wheelchair accessible, and we offer assistance for those who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have speech impairments. Please call or email us if we can help plan your journey.
Phone: 03 9362 8888
Email: reception@footscrayarts.com
Meet the Artist
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Luke George
Luke George (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist creating work that spans performance, installation, craft and curation. Luke was born in lutruwita/Tasmania and resides on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne. Through their work, Luke examines the dynamics of intimacy and collectivity to create ‘safe spaces’ that allow for care as well as risk. Luke’s artistic practice is informed by queer politics and spaces, whereby people are neither singular nor isolated; bodies of difference can intersect, practice mutual listening, take responsibility for themselves and one another. Luke creates and performs work across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, with notable presentations at the Venice Biennale, National Galleries of Victoria and Singapore, RISING, Dance Massive, Liveworks Festival, Rencontres chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis, Time Based Art Festival and many more. Luke was a 2019 Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship recipient, in 2020 appointed inaugural Artistic Associate of Temperance Hall and in 2022 was bequeathed a Chloe Monroe Fellowship.
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Daniel Kok
Daniel Kok studied Fine Art & Critical Theory (Goldsmiths College, London), Solo/Dance/Authorship (HZT, Berlin), and Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies (APASS, Brussels). In 2008, he received the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council (Singapore). His artistic work deals with the politics of Spectatorship and Audienceship and have been presented across Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America; notably in the Venice Biennale, Maxim Gorki (Berlin), Rising (Melbourne), and Festival/Tokyo.
As artistic director of Dance Nucleus (Singapore), he develops capacities for artists and trans-local partnerships in the Asia-Pacific. He curates da:ns LAB and the VECTOR exhibition in collaboration with the Esplanade (Singapore). He is based between Singapore and Berlin.
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Yu Fang Chi
Yu Fang Chi (she/her) is a Taiwan-born Australian artist working within textile, silversmithing, sculpture, and installation. Through years’ experience working on diverse techniques and a range of materials, her practice has sought to make artwork that combines the solidity of metal with the fluidity and organic character of fibre. Chi engaged in intensive material-based practices, artistic research, and immersive installation to deftly investigate the interaction between humans and the environment.
Her installation has been part of ART+ CLIMATE =CHANGE Festival, Hyphenated Projects, DUE WEST Festival, Fringe Festival, Melbourne Design Week, and multiple international biennales. In 2019, she received Career Development Grants form Australia Council for the Arts, and International Cultural Exchange Grants from Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation. Chi has undertaken artist in residencies in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Taipei.
Chi gained a doctorate from RMIT University and received the Diana Morgan Gold & Silversmithing Prize in 2018. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. Since 2008 her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the International Handwerksmesse Munich Talente, Schmuck, The Museum of Arts and Crafts ITAMI in Japan, The Gallery of Art Legnica in Poland, Beijing International Jewelry Art Biennial, World Art Museum… and so on. Yu Fang Chi’s work is held in the collections of Gold Museum in Taiwan, Korea International Craft Biennale, and Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France.
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