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We acknowledge the Turrbal & Yuggara people are the traditional custodians of the land on where this work was made. Sovereignty was never ceded. We acknowledge the people of the lands where we have all come from that make this work, this festival, possible. We recognise the continuing connection to lands, waters, and

communities of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We pay our respects to Elders: past, present, and emerging.

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TRANSHUMAN SAUNTERTHE PROJECT

TransHuman Saunter is a geolocative artwork that documents the entanglements of four women artists with the multispecies ecosystem of the Indian Banyan Tree. These entanglements constitute re-created and re-imagined narratives of their relationship with the nonhuman colonised Indian Subcontinent being: Indian Banyan Tree. The work further builds its foundations on themes of multispecies relationships with the “nonhuman” Banyan Tree, colonialism, mythologies, migration, oppressions, the artists’ own micro-narratives of being ‘lesser’ humans and everyday living in Australia. This is further juxtaposed with human-planetary crises of climate change, forest fires, a pandemic: all psychosis of disjointed human/nonhuman entanglements. This artwork digitally locates itself in Australia and on the Indigenous land of the Turrbal and Yuggera people. In engaging with the Indian Banyan Tree, the artists hope to provide a space to transcend and disrupt colonial forms of knowing so as to heal and repair. The eventual work will be a contribution to the pluralistic ways of knowing through an evocation of the narratives of the unseen: the “lesser”-humans, the “non”-humans, and the “non”-beings. Website

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TRANSHUMAN SAUNTEREXHIBITION

BAD FESTIVAL: 8th May 2021, 2-3.15pm, Botanic Gardens

Speaking up—responding to On EarthExperience creative thinkers and artists sharing new ideas and perspectives on the current opportunities and challenges facing us and our environment. Held in conjunction with the exhibition On Earth showing at QUT Art Museum, presenters respond to exhibition themes in a short, sharp creative format of choice. On Earth traces conceptions of landscape and the environment across centuries, through the poetic devices of art.

Performance Lecture: 10min

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TransHuman Saunter presented a ten-minutes performance lecture during the QUT Art Museum’s On Earth event Speaking up—responding to On Earth.This event is hosted by writer and actor Steven Oliver. Other presenters included artists Keemon WilliamsKinly GreyNardi Simpson Sancintya Mohini Simpson.

On Earth and Speaking up—responding to On Earth is curated by Sarah Werkmeister, QUT Art Museum Assistant Curator.

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Sarah Werkmeister is a freelance writer, editor, researcher, broadcaster and curator based between Melbourne and Brisbane. She has written extensively and worked with L’Internationale Online to develop publications around the environment (Ecologising Museums, 2016) and feminism (Feminisms, 2018), and has co-edited a chapter on the 13th Istanbul Biennial in I Can’t Work Like This: A reader on recent boycotts and contemporary art (2017). She’s worked with QUT Art Museum, Shepparton Art Museum, Public Art Melbourne, Next Wave, YIRRAMBOI Festival, the Emerging Writers Festival, Blak & Bright, BIRRARANGGA Film Festival, The Thousands, 4ZZZ and many more. She’s currently on the Darebin Art & Heritage Advisory Committee, the Outer Space board, and the Bus Projects Artistic Advisory Committee. Her research interests encompass representations of nationhood in public art collections, conceptions of public space, and the climate. She holds a Masters of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne.

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16TransHuman Saunter in performance during Speaking up—responding to On Earth.Photo credit: Jenna Mikus

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TransHuman Saunter in performance during Speaking up—responding to On Earth.Photo credit: Jenna Mikus

On Earth & Speaking up—responding to On Earth Signage.Photo credit: Jenna Mikus

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TransHuman Saunter team at the closing night of On Earth exhibition.Left to right: Kavita Gonsalves (TransHuman Saunter Creative Producer), Sarah Barron & Natasha Narain (TransHuman Saunter Artist)Photo credit: QUT Art Museum

TRANSHUMAN SAUNTERTEAM

Creative Producer Kavita Gonsalves

Concept Kavita GonsalvesHira Sheikh

Project Advisors Professor Marcus Foth Associate Professor Glenda CaldwellDr Keith Armstrong

CGeomap Platform Fred Adams Geert Vermeire

Project Sponsor QUT More than Human Futures Research Group

Special thanks QUT Art Museum, Uroboros festival, BAD festival, QUT Urban Informatics, QUT Creative Industries HDR Society, VisArts

Music Kai Engels “Scenery”

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