Artist as Family: Mapping our new route

Monday, 28 October 2013

Mapping our new route

If you live anywhere along this new route and would like to hook up, barter, organise a foraging class, host us or just have a cup of tea, please let us know.

7 comments:

Hen29 October 2013 at 14:04
Sydney please!
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Zara29 October 2013 at 18:44
Ohh you're heading through Goulburn now. You're welcome to stop by. x
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Permapoesis30 October 2013 at 22:40
yes and yes. thanks hen and zara. we're going to taralga after goulburn and before moss vale and sydney.
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lucazoid8 November 2013 at 21:37
and what about wollongong - austinmer? your map falls tantalisingly short!
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Permapoesis9 November 2013 at 22:35
i think we'll come to austinmer on the return route li. for the second leg (after moss vale) we're heading north to the blue mountains and then on newcastle and then up the coast towards qld. when we return we will prob come through austinmer and then down the south coast of nsw later in 2014, that is if we don't decide to go right around the country. we aim to see the agnsw show however (leaving our bikes in mossy and train hopping), a brief sydney excurs in late dec, prob the 27th.
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Carmen10 November 2013 at 09:23
Hi, I love this project and will follow with interest. My partner and I are on the central coast (Woy Woy peninsula) and would be happy to host you for a cuppa, lunch or dinner and a shower. Drop me a line if you're intending to head our way. We also have a great community garden at Woy Woy that you might like to visit.
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Zoe24 November 2013 at 09:31
It looks like you pass Canberra by - if you come on either leg I'd love to make you feel at home. crazybrave at gmail.com
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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’.