Open studio: Scents of Beverley; live distillations with Sue and Tarsh
Susan Hauri-Downing and Tarsh Bates, our Circular Economies resident artist in Beverley with Beverley Station Arts, will be hosting an open studio with live scent distillations!
You’re invited to help the artists collect scents of Beverley. Enliven your senses by bringing fragment material to distill in their special copper pot still!
Date: Saturday 22 November, 11am-12:30pm and 1:30pm-3pm
Location: Beverley Station Arts, 120 Vincent St Beverley WA
About the Artists
Based on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja / Southwestern Australia, Susan Hauri-Downing works at the intersections of social work and artistic methodologies. Her art practice focuses on bio-cultural diversity, ecological grief and loss and interspecies relationships. Based in Ubmeje Sápmi / Northern Sweden, Tarsh Bates is a transdisciplinary artist/researcher/educator interested in the aesthetics of interspecies relationships and queer ecologies. We collaborate on the Scents of Solastalgia project, which considers smell not only as a sensory experience but as a form of ecological memory. We explore how the smells around us change and how creating new smellscapes can foster a sense of agency and connection
Scents are produced by and cycle through land, bodies, water, atmosphere and time. We ask how smells connect us to place and how changes in smellscapes change connections to place. In consultation with community members and groups, we forage and scavenge stories and materials and using steam distillation, we collect scents of Beverley.
Image courtesy of the artists.
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Circular Economies is produced as a joint partnership by PICA - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and SPACED. PICA and SPACED thank our community host partners.
Explore our past programs
Know Thy Neighbour #3 (2021-23). Know Thy Neighbour #3 investigates notions of place, sites of interest, networks, and social relationships with partner communities.
Rural Utopias (2019-23). Rural Utopias is a program of residencies, exhibitions and professional development activities organised in partnership with 12 Western Australian rural and remote towns.
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