Artist as Family: Mapping our first leg

Monday, 16 September 2013

Mapping our first leg

This is a rough map of our first leg. If you live somewhere along this route and would like to host us, barter with us, organise a meet and greet, put us up in your backyard or any other form of exchange we'd love to hear from you. We can garden, cook, fix things, teach foraging and a do range of other things in exchange for a camping spot, an occasional hot shower or recharging our bike batteries. Please contact us by email, Facebook, Twitter or leave a comment on our blog.

12 comments:

ronnie17 September 2013 at 06:46
ahhh I was getting ready to leave the gate open.... but you're taking the inland route I see.... if you end up on the princes hwy (you never know....) our place is down there (nearish) the vic border....

(ps having cycled the roads around here I don't blame you for taking the less hilly route!!!!!)

good luck and have fun
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Artist as Family17 September 2013 at 08:29
thanks ronnie, we aim to come home via the south coast of nsw and along the victorian coast. it'll be our last leg, although we have no idea when that will be, poss mid to late 2014. we'd love to meet you...
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The Weed One17 September 2013 at 15:45
Guys, I had no idea.
This is great, i'm pledging.
Looking forward to your pdates.
AND, I know is not working yet ( but will) if you use #wildfoodmap hashtag in your geolocated images we'll be able to follow your trail, one picture at the time, one specie at the time>>
excellent stuff guys!!
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Permapoesis19 September 2013 at 14:11
thanks diego, we will definitely do this. thanks for pledging too. we're almost there...
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shine little light*30 September 2013 at 15:08
Hi Guys, Me and my husband live in Wagga Wagga, you can most certainly camp with us, charge your batterys and go nuts with the hot showers! In exchange we will pick your brains about our veggie garden! What dates do you think you'll be in Wagga? Feel free to email me sophiekurylowicz@gmail.com
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Permapoesis30 September 2013 at 18:04
that's wonderful news sophie, sounds like a great barter. at a guess we'll probably be in wagga around the first or second week of december. we'll contact you closer to the time if that's ok?
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db1 October 2013 at 19:57
hey guys!
Dave is my name. My wife and our three young kids are based on the nsw central coast (erina heights) and would love to host you if you're heading this way.
i'm early on in my permy journey so would love to spend some time chatting and showing you our little 1/2 acre urban(ish) farm in the making!
i've dropped you an email.
Dave
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Permapoesis6 October 2013 at 20:53
that's wonderful dave, look forward to meeting you all and sharing skills and knowledges.
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Zara7 October 2013 at 07:16
If you were headed through Goulburn you would've been welcome to stop by.
Best of luck with the journey.
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Meg7 October 2013 at 13:17
Thanks so much Zara! We may indeed come through Goulburn and if we do, we would love to come visit and do some work in that vegie patch of yours as an exchange for a patch of grass to lay our tents and a spark to charge our bikes. xx
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Jill Cockram16 December 2013 at 18:36
Hi Patrick, Meg and Family,

Imagine you are on the road as I type this and look forward to your arrival in the Southern Highalnds. Just give me a call and we'll make a time that suits for you to come and check out our cool climate community garden in Moss Vale. I love your 'food forest as art' project. We are currently starting to spill outside the gates of our community garden with nut groves and community food. Still building but enjoying the process of growing food and community spirit. Look forward to meeting you.

Cheers.

Jill
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Meg18 December 2013 at 22:30
hi jill, we are in bundanoon and have visited the community garden here, which is abuzz with life. we should be in moss vale in the next few days, possibly arriving some time between the 20th-22nd. we'll give you a call when we're in town. we look forward to meeting you and the garden.
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About Us

Hello! We are Artist as Family – Zero, Meg, Patrick, Blackwood (Woody), and back in the day, Zephyr. We live in Daylesford, Australia on a quarter-acre permaculture plot, home to our School of Applied Neopeasantry at Tree Elbow University on Djaara peoples' country.

We base our creative practice on our concept of permapoesis, which simply means permanent making or regenerative living – an antidote to disposable culture. We practice an art that participates in what it represents; an art of social warming in an era of global warming. Food ethics and politics are central to our practice. Generating food that brings human and ecological health and global justice is our creative call to arms, within the sphere of the local. We teach a unique skill set of radical neopeasant homemaking, community economy making and other accountable living skills to volunteers called SWAPs (Social Warming Artists and Permaculturists) and teach Permaculture Living Courses (PLCs). We are bloggers, fermentors, writers, public speakers, poets, artists, video makers who also make music, but mostly we're a family who belong to a bloody great community and therefore we're much more than the sum of our parts.

Past and current projects

Artist as Family have conducted a number of fruitful projects in the past including '17 Days' (2009), commissioned by the Lock-up Cultural Centre in Newcastle and 'Food Forest' (2010–), commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, our work was featured in the international anthology of ecological art, 'Art & Ecology Now' (2014), and we wrote the Art of Free Travel (2015) about our 400 day cycle adventure to Cape York and home again in Central Victoria, which was shortlisted for an ABIA in 2016. We continue to give talks to sustainability groups, art schools, university students and community organisations. We teach Permaculture Living Courses (PLCs) from our home, at Tree Elbow University, which is the site for The School of Applied Neopeasantry in Daylesford, Victoria.

17 Days (2009)

'17 Days' involved foraging for anthropogenic waste along the coastline and throughout the city of Newcastle. Day after day we carried out the same simple task of walking or bike riding to collect countless bags of rubbish. We swam, played in the sand, picnicked, rested, communed with locals, gazed (as inlanders) in awe at the sea and picked up other people’s discarded refuse. After 17 days we had amassed a monumental pile of industrial food and drink packaging, which we exhibited at the Lock-up Cultural Centre as simply: the everyday detritus of hypertechnocivility as collected by a family on holiday.

Food Forest (2010–)

'Food Forest' is a public artwork that doubles as a community garden, a work that aims to foreground biodiversity and demonstrate that materially art can be generative, can be a resource unto itself, rather than just an extractor or exploiter of resources to make market desirable products. In other words art can be generative contiguous with ecological functioning. Food Forest is therefore a work that attempts to blur the traditional western line between art and that estranging term ‘nature’.