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Everything that has happened leaves traces. Buried pasts, half-remembered stories, hidden life and cryptic clues. Siteworks this year lifts the veil to uncover what lies within.

Siteworks is Bundanon’s annual spring event which brings experts, thinkers, artists and community voices together to share knowledge and ideas arising from the Bundanon sites through a series of experiences, artworks and discussions.

(Cover) Bundanon Courtyard. Photo: David Varga - Sum of Infinity

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HENRY’S BRIDGE

CAMPING HOMESTEAD

HEAVY METAL

TWILIGHTSTATES

DOUBLELANDSCAPE

INTIMATEJOURNALS

POLARI

NICHE

BUNDANON DAM

THEMISSING

TWIN

NIGHT VISIONSANGKURIANG

TRAGIC DROWNINGFATALITY

THE BUNDANONMEDIEVAL

INFO TENT STORY TENT

KIDS TENT

TALKS TENT

FIRESIDE

EEARIE PARK EATS

ARTHUR BOYD STUDIO

BUNDANONHOMESTEAD

SINGLEMAN’SHUT

TENT

BUILDING

ARTWORK

MAP KEY

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INTIMATE JOURNALS // Exhibition POLARI // Installation HEAVY METAL // Installation

NICHE // Installation

TWILIGHT STATES AND THE EDGES OF DARKNESS // Installation KIDS ACTIVITIES // Workshop ARTIST TALK - INTIMATE JOURNALS // Talking WRITE TO SPEAK // Workshops ARTIST TALK - HEAVY METAL // Talking WELCOME // Welcome!

CONVERSATIONS // Talking NIGHT VISION - (DAY) // Performance NIGHT VISION - (SUNSET) // Performance THE BUNDANON MEDIEVAL // Performance

HAUNTED POINT DANCE HALL // Music / Fun THE MISSING TWIN // Installation ARTIST TALK - NICHE // Talking TRAGIC DROWNING FATALITY // Performance NIGHT VISION - (NIGHT) // Performance DOUBLE LANDSCAPE // Video ARTIST TALK - DOUBLE LANDSCAPE // Talking FIRESIDE // Storytelling TRAGIC DROWNING FATALITY // Performance SANGKURIANG: A PERFORMANCE RESPONSE // Performance TRAGIC DROWNING FATALITY // Performance

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WHEN WHAT INFO MAP

2016 marks 150 years of this Colonial house. Built in 1866 the Bundanon Homestead has been a working farm, a rural retreat and home to the Boyds, one of Australia’s greatest artistic dynasties.

Bundanon Homestead, c1970s. Bundanon Trust Archive.

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Ghostings? Find out by joining the conversation. This year’s Siteworks is all about the hidden – the things that lie beneath, or within, or outside of our normal view. Join ABC’s Robbie Buck as he leads us through this shrouded territory, interviewing five diverse guest speakers.

(L - R, top to bottom) Robbie Buck, Tim Cohen, Bruce Pascoe, Katrina Strickland, Felicity McLean, Jason King.

Robbie Buck has presented programs across the gamut of the broadcast spectrum for the past two decades. He’s well known for his 13 year stint hosting for the Australian youth broadcasting network triple j. Highlights include the creation of the Australian music show Home and Hosed, presenting the Drive program and co-hosting Breakfast. More recently he’s spent two years at the helm of 702’s Evening Show and another couple as host of Radio National’s weekday afternoons, where he created the music program The Inside Sleeve. He currently hosts the breakfast show on 702 ABC Sydney. Tim Cohen is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Wollongong. As a geomorphologist he researches landscapes and landform evolution. In many ways he is a natural historian, an earth scientist and somebody who reads the landscape. His current work includes palaeoclimatic research in central Australia on what once was Australia’s mega-lakes. He has had extensive experience in both the research and applied aspects of his work, and has an ongoing interest in understanding what riverine landscapes were like prior to European settlement and how we go about rehabilitating them. Bruce Pascoe is an award-winning Australian writer, editor and anthologist. He was born in Victoria (south-eastern Australia) and graduated from Melbourne University with a Bachelor of Education. He has a Bunurong and Tasmanian heritage. He has worked as a teacher, farmer, fisherman, barman, farm fence contractor, lecturer, Aboriginal language researcher, archaeological site worker and book editor. His books include Shark, Ruby-eyed Coucal, Ocean, Earth and Nightjar. Bruce has also written a number of non-fiction works, the latest includes Dark Emu (2014). Katrina Strickland is editor of the Australian Financial Review Magazine, a monthly glossy inserted into the Australian Financial Review newspaper. She has been with the newspaper for a decade, working for six years as its arts editor. Prior to that she worked for a decade at The Australian, where she held a number of roles including that of arts editor. Her book Affairs of the Art, published by Melbourne University Publishing in 2013, looks at the estates of artists and explores how what is done – and not done - after an artist dies can influence their reputation. She lives in Sydney.

Felicity McLean is an author and journalist whose writing has featured in The Good Weekend, the Daily Telegraph, the Big Issue and more. Her latest book, Body Lengths, was co-written with Olympian Leisel Jones and was the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards ‘Reader’s Choice’ for Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year, and Apple iBook’s ‘Best Biography of 2015’. As a ghostwriter she has collaborated with celebrities, sports stars, business leaders and others, and she appeared at the 2016 Sydney Writers’ Festival discussing the dark art of being a ghost.

Jason King is a ghost hunter, an ‘everyman’, whose passion for the paranormal was inspired from a very personal experience. Eighteen years ago Jason lost his brother in a car accident and in the weeks following his loss, Jason’s brother appeared to him in a vision. For two weeks the brothers would sit and talk into the night. The journey that began with a visit from his dead brother, has transformed Jason from a sceptic into a believer. He now spends his spare time and money pursuing ghosts across Australia. He does not charge his clients but is motivated purely by his own curiosity.

SPEAKERS

2:30-5PM AT THE TALKS TENT, MAP:P16

TALKS

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Play a Boyd painting by getting under the surface of the paint.

Uncover stories between the pages within the Bundanon library.

Open: 12pm - 8pm, Artist Talk: 1:30pm MAP: H5, Arthur Boyd’s Studio

Open: 12pm - 8pm, Artist Talk: 1pm MAP: M13, Bundanon Homestead

Elements and minerals lay buried in the landscape, tracing diagrams of human activity. Arthur Boyd painted this (mineralised) landscape with colours which were themselves formulated from earthy compounds and exotic metals, milled to a fine paste in linseed oil and turpentine.

Heavy Metal invites us to interact with one of Arthur Boyd’s painting in his old studio at the Bundanon Homestead to discover a hidden world of elements and minerals in an experience that is simultaneously chemical, visual and musical.

Heavy Metal is a collaborative work by Dr Nigel Helyer; Dr Mark Taylor and Dr Jon Drummond.

Heavy Metal is part of the “When Science Meets Art” Art and Science research project funded by the Australian Research Council, the principal partners being Macquarie University, Bundanon Trust and the Australia Council for the Arts.

Since 1995 Anne Ferran has been looking at ways the past comes down to us. Her photographic and video works have explored histories of incarceration in prisons, asylums, hospitals and nurseries, and are often haunted by things lost or unseen. She has worked extensively with museum collections, photographic archives and historic sites in Australia and New Zealand. Her work is held in major public collections in Australia and internationally. Anne states: The photographic series Intimate Journals and the book Artist’s Library arose from time spent with Arthur and Yvonne Boyd’s personal library in the Bundanon homestead. I began by making the ‘visual inventory’ of the library that I knew I would need for the book, while waiting for the inner nature of the library to reveal itself. The photographs have been shaped by, among other things, the idea of a connective tissue linking writing and landscape and the strong attraction I felt for particular titles and texts.

Intimate Journals was supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.

HEAVY METAL INTIMATE JOURNALS

Bundanon has become haunted by some of Australia’s best artists The Bundanon Homestead will be inhabited by the works of Anne Ferran and Christian Thompson, while Nigel Helyer will take possession of Arthur Boyd’s studio. There will be artists materialising to meet you on a lonely country road, while others will be lurking by bridges, lakes, groves and fields.

ARTWORKSACROSS THE SITE, DAY AND NIGHT!

(Above) Christian Thompson,Trinity II, from the Polari series, 2014

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A half-forgotten wreck, a joy ride, red dust flying and powerful country.

What was happening at Bundanon in the year 950 AD?

Experience the uncanny near the Singleman’s Hut.

Experience the colonial Homestead like never before.

Performances at 3:45pm, 5:15pm, 6:45pm (60mins) No two shows the same! MAP: U3, Singleman’s Hut, Meet 5mins before

Meet at 5:45pm MAP: M15, Fireside Performance at 6pm (20mins)

Open: 6pm - 10pm MAP: U2, Singleman’s Hut

Open: 12pm - 8pm MAP: M13, Bundanon Homestead

As the afternoon light stretches into darkness, Night Vision invites you into a strangely compelling world as eight performers, five effigies, taxidermied animals and shape shifters enter into a marathon durational performance event. Originally developed by Alicia Talbot, Night Vision is a collaborative work devised and created for Siteworks 2016 by Vanessa Barbay, Suzannah Bayes Morton, Liz Jones, David Little, Steve Mayhew, Alicia Talbot, Morgan Blakeney, Nigel Hewitt, Caine Smith, Xara van Doorn Starkey, Kryton Stewart, Regina Heilmann, Brad Williams and Brendon Vitiello. Initial research for this project was supported by A Month in The Country at HotHouse Theatre with Raimondo Cortese, Liz Jones and the Hothouse ensemble. Night Vision is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.

Bundanon’s own Cohen Brothers lead us out into the paddocks to contemplate the Medieval Warm Period (950 -1250 AD). In Britain they were growing grapes and under favourable winds Central Eastern Polynesia was being settled but what about the Shoalhaven? Step out at dusk, slip through the dirt-strewn slots of time and venture underground to see Bundanon from a poetic medieval perspective.

Artistic Direction: Michael CohenScientific Direction: Tim CohenPerformer/devisor: Katia MolinoComposer/devisor: Cor FuhlerDancer/devisor: Joe Brown McLeodVideo/devisor: Denis Beaubois

This project is has been invaluably assisted by undergraduate and postgraduate students from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Wollongong.

This project received support from Inspiring Australia, the national strategy for engagement with the sciences funded by the NSW Government and the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, managed by Inspiring Australia (NSW).

Artist and designer, Anna Tregloan, investigates, imagines and invents the missing twin to The Single Man’s Hut on the Bundanon property. Apparently a mirror image of the remaining structure, The Missing Twin is now the ghost of what was and an evocative setting for the newest instalment in her series of site-specific, locally derived ghost stories titled The Ghost Project.

Anna Tregloan is a multi-award winning designer, artist and creative producer who collaborates on and creates work for major performing arts companies, major Australian festivals and an array of smaller and independent companies, galleries and artists. She has an extensive history in contemporary theatre and dance, physical theatre, opera, live-art and immersive installations.

Associate artists: David Franzke, Paul Jackson and Jackie Dent.

Christian Thompson is an Australian born, London-based contemporary artist whose work explores notions of identity, cultural hybridity & history. Formally trained as a sculptor, Thompson’s multidisciplinary practice engages mediums such as photography, video, sculpture, performance & sound. His work focuses on the exploration of identity, sexuality, gender, race and memory. Polari is the subcultural nineteenth century language of actors, sex workers and criminals. Thompson’s performative photographs play with the notion of disguise and suggest a shifting personal and sexual identity. The acclaimed work flows from his research into an archive of historical photographs of Aboriginal people held at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.

Thompson’s Trinity series from Polari is accompanied by the video Refuge where the artist sings in the Bidjara language.

NIGHT VISIONTHE BUNDANON MEDIEVAL THE MISSING TWINPOLARI

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A tragic drowning retold through 19th century magic lantern slides. Experience the gods and ancestral

ghosts of Java.

Step into a Niche for an encounter with involuntary art created by fauna. Encounter multi-sensorial, preternatural

connections to the environment. Performances at 6:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm (20mins) MAP: J6, Meet at the Story Tent

Performance at 7:45pm (20mins) MAP: N4, Meet near Henry’s Bridge

Open: 12pm - 8pm, Artist Talk: 6PM MAP: N11, Go to Eearie Park Eats for directions

Open 12pm - 10pm MAP: R9, Beside the Dam This magic lantern show tells the story of an

actual double drowning in the Shoalhaven River at Bundanon. Local actors will read newspaper reports and give the testimony of eyewitnesses that were published in the Shoalhaven Telegraph on Wednesday 1 February 1922.

The original magic lantern slides Martyn Jolly will project through two nineteenth century ‘dissolving-view’ magic lanterns which date from the 1870s were made between the 1880s and the 1920s.

Lanternist: Martyn JollyMusical Director: Alexander HunterMusicians: Ben Harb, Chloë Hobbs, Jack Livingston, Andrew RyanPerformers: Kez Thompson, Clare Jolly, Liberty Thompson, Peter Lavelle, Tom JohnstoneTechnical and documentation: Alex Hobba, Bronwyn Coupe, Lucy Coupe

This work responds to the west Javanese legend of Sangkuriang as told through the book that resulted from the 1993 collaboration between Arthur Boyd and Indonesian printmaker Indra Deigan.

The artists re-locate and re-imagine aspects of this creation story about Tangkuban Perahu, the volcanic lake on the edge of Bandung. They activate gods and ancestral ghosts from the roots of Java’s animistic history, weaving illusory connections to the spirits that inspired the sculptures in the garden site of Bundanon

Concept: WeiZen Performers: WeiZen and Yoka JonesLighting & installation design: Fausto Brusamolino

WARNING: performance contains nudity

Niche is a primal experience.

In stepping into each niche, we enter a remembered space of species. Each niche invites an encounter with involuntary art created by fauna.

Niche #1 offers a social sanctuary. From within it we find ourselves amid an exhibition of locally created structures. It shifts the language of habitat so that we live its mystery and vitality as contemporary art.

Niche #2 tenders a place of refuge and intimacy .It is a hideaway island in a field of subterranean havens. It shifts the art of habitat so that we live its repose and calm as intimate refinement.

Concept, direction, construction: Jude AndersonPhoto documentation: Gilles LapalusNiche construction: Nici Wright

Twilight States creates a contemplative space for encountering multi-sensorial, and preternatural connections to the environment through the use of engendered flora in NSW. Images of these plants are expressed through embroidered textiles, sculptural forms, and micro-electronics. The audience is encouraged to explore the shifting quality of the work from day to night.

Twilight States is a gentle intervention in the landscape that reminds us of our connections to the ecosystems to which we belong.

Artists: Dr Agnieszka Golda, Dr Jo Law, Martin Johnson.

Funded by Faculty Challenge Grant, The Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong.

SANGKURIANG: A PERFORMANCE RESPONSE

NICHETRAGIC DROWNING FATALITYTWILIGHT STATES AND THE EDGES OF DARKNESS

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TELL US WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF SITEWORKS

Travel deeper and deeper into a limitless world.

1. We have a quick survey we’d love you to complete 2. Look out for volunteers carrying paper copies 3. An online copy will also be emailed to campers + shared on social media 4. THANK YOU!

Opens at 7pm, repeats until 10pm (12mins) Artist Talk: 7:15pm, MAP: S16

Double Landscape is two-screen video installation exploring notions of solitude, reverie and space. Slipping into natural environments that point to a different kind of temporal reality. Perhaps, in times of extensive solitude, inside and outside become immense. Perceived borders disintegrate – travelling deeper and deeper into a limitless world.

Co-creator and performer: Linda LukeCo-creator and video: Martin FoxSound design: Michael Toisuta

DOUBLE LANDSCAPE WORKSHOPS

1PM – 2PM MEET AT THE STORY TENT, MAP: J6 Want to learn how to perform your writing or write for performance? With 18 years of professional experience, the award-winning founder of Australian Poetry Slam, Miles Merrill, will look at ways stories and poetry can get your message across: from holding a microphone, to expressing vulnerability, to editing your text for a live presentation.

This ‘wordshop’ uses one of the primary characteristics of poetry—say more with less—to assist participants to perform their writing with power.

Born in Chicago, now living in Sydney. Miles Merrill has been the driving force behind spoken-word and performance poetry in Australia. He has toured with Saul Williams, jammed with Shane Koyczan, hosted an ABC TV Special - Australian Poetry Slam. Internationally, Merrill has performed in such places as Krakow’s Audio Art Festival, at writer’s festivals in Ubud, Vancouver, Calgary, Beijing and regional China and at Australian festivals in: Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Darwin and Adelaide. Miles is currently the Creative Director of Word Travels - The International Performing Writers’ Association.

WRITE TO SPEAK

It’s fun to watch, but why not get involved? Siteworks offers workshops for all ages.

(Above) Miles Merrill

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AFTER DARK

12PM – 5PM MEET AT THE KIDS TENT - MAP: K12 Every year our educators pull together a great program of engaging kid friendly activities, and this year is no different. • Make some magic lantern slides using paint markers and inks and then project them onto a screen.

• Draw and paint a cloth puppet using fabric paints and markers then narrate your own mysterious ghost story.

• Collage and construct ghostly string puppets from images of body parts, bones and skeletons, then create an animation with them on your smart phone.

FROM 7:30PM, AROUND THE FIRESIDE CAMPFIRE - MAP: M15

Join Miles Merrill from Word Travels as he hosts an evening of storytellers including Miles himself, Aden Rolfe, our FBi Radio competition winner Andre Shannon for best ghost story, and more!

FROM 6:00PM, IN THE TALK TENT - MAP: P16

At twilight the Talk Tent transforms into the Haunted Point Dance Hall where Gramophone Man resurrects the great sounds your grandparents used to love on 78rpm records using genuine His Master’s Voice wind-up gramophone players. Later in the evening, DJ Shivers Regal will appear playing a mix of vintage music on the decks from the 40s to 70s - including old ska, some classic 50s r’n’b, rock’n’roll, southern soul, a smattering of latin and a bit of funk.

KIDS ACTIVITIES

FIRESIDE

HAUNTED POINT DANCE HALL

WORKSHOPS

(Above) Gramophone Man(Above) Magic lantern slides workshop

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BUNDANON BIG DRAW

Visit the Bundanon Homestead and Arthur Boyd’s Studio; take a guided tour; bring a picnic lunch; see the Polari, and Intimate Journals exhibitions.

EVERY SUNDAY 10.30 to 4pm Show your camping wrist band to gain free entry after Siteworks.

BLUE KING BROWN SUPPORTED BY SAHARA BECK

ASH GRUNWALD

Explore and Draw. Experience the cool of the rainforest in the heat of summer. Take your pencils, pens and watercolours on an outing to Bundanon. Guided by our artist-educators, you will soak up the beauty of South Coast rainforest. All welcome!

Hailed by Santana as “The voice of the street and the band of the future!” Blue King Brown, ARIA nominated artists, are Australia’s premier live urban roots & reggae powerhouse. Their cross generational groove and socially conscious sound are led by the multi talented, relentless energy of Nattali Rize.

Ash Grunwald is known for his blistering live sets on the international festival circuit and has critics and fans raving about his unique blend of roots, blues, beats and whole lotta groove. Ash has been nominated six times for Australia’s ARIA Awards, and has a swag of awards under his belt.

SUNDAY 8 JANUARY 2017Bundanon Grounds and Homestead

SATURDAY 14 JANUARY 2017Riversdale, Boyd Education Centre

SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER 2016Riversdale, Boyd Education Centre

BUNDANON OPEN DAY

SUNDAY

Taste the best food & drink at Eearie Park Eats

FOOD & DRINK

Duck Duck Goose Bumps Café, with delectable Vietnamese Street food stall Day of the Dead Rabbit & Co, going south of the border (Mexico, not Victoria)

Shaky Hands Coffee and hot chocolate

Our bar includes the Shoalhaven Wine Region’s most awarded vineyard Coolangatta Estate

FOOD

COFFEE

BAR

22Bundanon Road. Photo: David Varga - Sum of Infinity

Bundanon is Arthur and Yvonne Boyd’s gift to the Australian people. Bundanon Trust supports arts practice and engagement with the arts through its residency, education, exhibition and performance programs. In preserving the natural and cultural heritage of its site, Bundanon promotes the value of the landscape in all our lives.