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Latai Taumoepeau is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice fuses ancient and everyday temporal practice using mediums like performance, dance, installation and social engagement.
Her faivā (body-centred practice) is grounded in the traditions of her homelands, the Island Kingdom of Tonga and her birthplace Sydney, land of the Gadigal people.
Latai joins us to discuss her work over the past decade exploring the impact of climate change in the Pacific and the threat of dispossession that many island communities face.
Latai was a leading artist on Arts House Melbourne’s five-year project, Refuge, an exploration of community preparedness in emergency management. She shares her insights on that process and how her collaboration with the SES on that project has continued to evolve.
Latai was recently awarded Creative Australia’s 2023 Award for Emerging and Experimental Arts and reflects on the meaning of that acknowledgement and some of the questions contemporary artists face surrounding the relevance and sustainability of their work.
Links
ABC Arts Week - Latai Taumoepeau: Creative Australia Award for Emerging and Experimental Arts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKfKmtcergA
Artist Profile / Repatriate at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13K2Gr-Od8w&t=9s
Mass Movement, Refuge, Arts House Melbourne
https://www.artshouse.com.au/events/mass-movement/
Mass Movement, Documentary Short Film, Refuge 2021, Arts House
https://www.artshouse.com.au/events/mass-movement-documentary-short-film/
The Last Resort: Biennale of Sydney
https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/latai-taumoepeau/
Follow Latai on instagram
https://www.instagram.com/latai101/?hl=en
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Kerry Jones is the Director of Systems Initiatives for the Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI). We spoke with Kerry in Meanjin / Brisbane, during the Australian Disaster Resilience Conference where she presented a program of work that is enabling communities to lead their own disaster response systems through a model of engagement called “Now-Future-How”.
This work, led by TACSI through the Fire to Flourish initiative, is built around the philosophy that when it comes to building resilient communities, the answers lie within the communities themselves. Kerry shares how the model is designed to deepen resilience capability to set communities up for success in approaching collective decision making and leading their own change.
Links:
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When Cyclone Yasi hit the coast of North Queensland in 2011, the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation and its active community of rangers and artists took a position of leadership in the recovery process and galvanised a devastated community.
In this episode, Girringun’s Founder and Executive Officer Phil Rist shares the story of their Traditional-Owner led organisation; we take a tour around the renowned Girringun Arts Centre with manager Joann Russo; and we also hear from Girringun Ranger Michael George and Communications Officer Seraeah Wyles about the interconnectedness of arts, culture and country.
This episode is a re-release, originally aired in October 2019. We decided to share this episode this month in response to the outcome of the recent referendum as a way to continue using this platform to amplify Indigenous perspectives in disaster management.
The Creative Recovery Network expresses our solidarity with First Nations people and our ongoing staunch commitment to walk hand in hand to find new pathways for change.
If you would like to support the work of the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation, you can donate here:
Some perspectives on the outcome of the referendum we have been reading / listening to:
Bhiamie Williamson in The Conversation
Claire G Coleman in The Saturday Paper
The Full Story: How to continue the fight for Indigenous rights
The movement that follows the Voice, Thomas Mayo
Other resources related to this episode:
Girringun Aboriginal Corporation
Girringun Resilience: Portraits of Yasi
Girringun Resilience (video), Creative Recovery Pilot Project
National Indigenous Arts & Cultural Authority
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Girringun: the trailblazing Indigenous corporation caring for 1.2m hectares of north Queensland
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Bhiamie Williamson is a Euahlayi man from North West NSW and one of Australia’s leading researchers into Indigenous peoples’ experience of disasters.
Bhiamie’s work in this field has led to his current leadership of the National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Project which sits within Monash University’s Fire to Flourish program. We spoke with Bhiamie following the inaugural National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Summit in Meanjin, Brisbane - a first-of-its-kind event that marks a significant step forward in disaster planning in Australia.
Instigated by Bhiamie’s work within Fire to Flourish and driven by his motivation to build a community of practice around Indigenous approaches to disaster management, the summit brought together hundreds of Indigenous and non-Indigenous disaster planning representatives to share perspectives and discuss how to collaborate effectively into the future.
Bhiamie also discusses his recent work with Phoebe Quinn and Professor Lisa Gibbs around Indigenous healing methods, highlights the importance of working within decolonial research frameworks, and shares the potential that privileging Indigenous voices in disaster planning can offer into developing new modes of thinking around the climate crisis.
Links >>
Fire to Flourish, Monash University
https://www.monash.edu/msdi/initiatives/fire-to-flourish
National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Summit Program
https://www.aidr.org.au/events/37022?locationId=37027
National Indigenous Radio Service, First Nations Knowledge Needed in Disaster Planning
https://nirs.org.au/news/indigenous-knowledge-needed-in-disaster-planning/
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Annette Carmichael is an award-winning choreographer and dance artist based in Western Australia with community engagement at the core of her work. She joins Scotia to discuss The Stars Descend, an ambitious and inspiring performance work that consists of five chapters, crafted with and for five different communities in the south-west of Western Australia in partnership with renowned eco-restoration project, Gondwana Link.
Driven by the desire to inspire climate hope and action, the performances were staged in outdoor settings across Gondwana Link’s 1000 kilometre ecological pathway, with each of the five communities presenting a chapter responding to the extraordinary biodiversity of the region.
The Stars Descend music appears in this episode courtesy of Annette Carmichael Projects: Sound design by Simon Walsh, Dave Mann, Andy O’Neil, Azariah Felton and Jean Michel Maujean, The Stars Descend, Annette Carmichael Projects, 2023. Track compiled and mastered by Azariah Felton.
LINKS
The Stars Descend at Heartland Journeys
The Stars Descend Highlights Video
‘Strong Like a Karri’. Behind the scenes video of The Stars Descend: Chapter Three, Porongurup.
The Stars Descend: Chapter 1 (Wooditjup Margaret River), Full Performance
The Stars Descend: Chapter 2 (Northcliffe), Full Performance
The Stars Descend: Chapter 3 (Porongurup), Full Performance
Film: Breathing Life Into Boodja
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Dr Margaret Moreton is Executive Director of the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) and leads the work of AIDR to develop and share knowledge and learning to support a disaster resilient Australia.
Margaret joins Scotia to talk about the work of AIDR and the importance of building a collaborative approach to how we plan for and respond to disasters. She shares the story of her first understanding of the importance of community and collaboration from her childhood growing up in rural Australia and how this has informed her life and work.
This, along with her experiences during the 2003 Canberra fires and the 2009 Victorian bushfires, motivated Margaret’s journey into community-based research into disaster recovery and resilience and what has now become an ongoing commitment to building capacity and improving resilience outcomes for Australian communities.
We also hear about the upcoming AIDR conference (August 23 - 24), the first to be delivered under Margaret’s leadership, and how this year’s program is enhancing the inclusion of diverse voices and new platforms including a dedicated focus on creative recovery for the first time.
Notes:
Australian Disaster Resilience Conference, 2023
Climate Change and Social Capital: Professor Daniel Aldrich
Natural Hazards Research Australia
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Hard Place / Good Place is a project developed by the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum following a devastating storm that swept through the region in June 2021. It was thoughtfully designed in collaboration with the fEEL lab at the University of New South Wales as a way to work with young people in the region aged 15 to 25 to give voice to their experience as part of the recovery process.
The work focusses on lived experiences of being in a ‘hard place’ or a ‘good place’ through a collection of personal and community stories, told through Augmented Reality. It was exhibited in the museum in Lilydale from September - November as part of The Big Anxiety - a mental health and arts festival.
On this episode, Scotia is joined by two of the key people behind the project: Megan Sheehy, Director of the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum; and Volker Kuchelmeister, lead immersive designer and Senior Research fellow at the University of New South Wales’ Felt Experience and Empathy Lab.
We hear about the process of developing the work and the importance of centering the participants’ experience. We also discuss the broader opportunities for the future of digital storytelling as well as the crucial role that local government and local cultural institutions play in supporting communities through disaster recovery in regional areas.
LINKS
Hard Place / Good Place
https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/enjoylocal/The-Big-Anxiety/Hard-PlaceGood-Place-Yarra-Ranges
The Age, October 5 2022: ‘The tree got every room in the house’: At the centre of a terrifying Dandenong Ranges storm
Yarra Ranges Regional Museum
https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/Yarra-Ranges-Regional-Museum
Parragirls Past, Present
http://kuchelmeister.net/portfolio/parragirls-past-present/
UNSW fEEL Lab
http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au/research/organisations/arc-laureate-felt-experience-empathy-lab-feel-lab
The Big Anxiety Festival
https://www.thebiganxiety.org/
Creative Recovery Network Case Study Library
https://creativerecovery.net.au/resources/
Creative Responders S1 E1, A Sense of safety: What young people are capable of in the face of disaster
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Vic McEwan is the Artistic Director and co-founder of The Cad Factory, an artist-led organisation whose work and practice aims to enrich broader conversations about the role the arts can play within our communities.
Vic is a leading practitioner in the field of socially engaged practice and joins us to discuss how this guides his work and The Cad Factory’s professional development and mentorship programs dedicated to exploring the ethics and expanding the community of practice around socially engaged work.
He shares some of The Cad Factory’s impactful projects around community preparedness in the regional communities of Falls Creek and Menindee, and discusses the leadership opportunities for arts organisations to navigate a changing world and facilitate nuanced explorations of complex community issues.
Links and resources:
The Cad Factory
From Menindee: Project description and short documentary
https://www.cadfactory.com.au/from-menindee
CASE Incubator
https://www.cadfactory.com.au/case-incubator
Socially Engaged Art Practice: A Responsibility Towards Care, Vic McEwan for Arts Hub
https://www.cadfactory.com.au/_files/ugd/a2d021_4548711a50084d29a60957f72f37ace9.pdf
The Clontarf Academy
https://clontarf.org.au/
Produced by Scotia Monkivitch and Jill Robson, edited and mixed by Tiffany Dimmack.
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Zena Armstrong joins us to share the story of community recovery following the Black Summer bushfires that devastated the village of Cobargo and the surrounding regions.
Zena is a former Australian diplomat and director of the Cobargo Folk Festival where she works with a close-knit team of volunteers using music, art and the spoken word to grow community connectedness and imagine new ways of being.
In the wake of the 2019-20 bushfires, Zena and the folk festival team joined forces with other key local organisations to harness the outpouring of support for their community forming the Cobargo Community Bushfire Recovery Fund, of which she is now President.
The fund has supported more than 40 projects and the story of its formation embodies the collective process and potential for community-led approaches to support recovery and ongoing preparedness in regional communities.
Further Reading:
Cobargo Community Bushfire Recovery Fund
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Dr Naomi Sunderland is a lead researcher on The Remedy Project - an Australian Research Council supported project exploring music as a primary cultural determinant of health for First Nations communities.
She joins us to discuss the healing power of music and her investigation into its role within First Nations communities as an enduring link to ancestors, Country, language and community.
Naomi is a descendant of the Wiradjuri First Nations People and is based out of Griffith University in Meanjin, Brisbane. Her extensive research and publishing record in arts-health and First Nations social justice has a particular focus on creative, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed approaches.
Further reading:
The Remedy Project
Children’s Ground
https://childrensground.org.au
We Al-li Resources for trauma-informed care
https://www.wealli.com.au/resources/
Inner Deep Listening and Quiet Awareness, a Reflection by Miriam Rose Ungunmerr via the Miriam Rose Foundation
https://www.miriamrosefoundation.org.au/dadirri/
Listen to Kabi Kabi based Torres Strait Islander musician, Al Bartholomew’s, powerful acoustic tribute to Yothu Yindi’s Treaty. Al was one of the pilot study interviews for The Remedy Project and recorded this track on Kabi Kabi Country (Sunshine Coast, Queensland) with Chief Investigator, Phil Graham.
https://remedyproject.org/stories
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Anna Kennedy-Borissow joins us to discuss her PhD research into creative recovery projects in Australia. Anna is an arts manager, academic and theatre maker and currently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne where she is researching the interplay of arts practice, community wellbeing and emergency management.
Anna’s work addresses a gap in what is historically a lack of academic research in this field. By examining the extent to which arts participation builds resilience in disaster-affected communities and identifying the underlying factors that contribute to the success of creative recovery initiatives, she is working to establish an evidence-base to inform future developments in policy and practice.
In this conversation, Scotia and Anna discuss:
Further reading:
Performing Creativity, Culture and Wellbeing
https://www.cawri.com.au/pccw2023
Creative Recovery Network Case Study Library
https://creativerecovery.net.au/resources/
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Writer, policy adviser, audio producer and accessibility consultant, Jonathan Craig, joins Scotia for a discussion about how disaster planning can be improved by connecting with people as individuals and bringing the lived experience of community members to the table.
Jonathan is a policy advisor for Vision 2020 and has worked with Arts House Melbourne on several projects including Refuge, and the Warehouse Residency program for deaf and disabled artists.
Recently, Jonathan was part of the creative team behind Exercise Torrent - the City of Melbourne’s annual disaster preparedness exercise. He reflects on the project and discusses the windows of opportunity that arts-based approaches can offer into aspects of preparedness sometimes overlooked by traditional processes, like accessibility.
Links
Jonathan Craig, Twitter
https://twitter.com/j_d_x?lang=en
Putting the Pieces Together: How the City of Melbourne is strengthening disaster management through creativity
https://creativerecovery.net.au/creative-responders-podcast/documentary-series/s3-episode-10/
Defying Doomsday, Twelfth Planet Press
http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/products/ebooks/defying-doomsday
Rebuilding Tomorrow, Twelfth Planet Press
http://defyingdoomsday.twelfthplanetpress.com/rebuilding-tomorrow/
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/left-hand-darkness
The Refuge Project, Arts House
https://www.artshouse.com.au/artist-opportunities/refuge/
Convergence, Arts House
https://www.artshouse.com.au/events/convergence/
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As cities and communities all over the world look to new models of disaster preparedness and response, how do we successfully activate a whole of community approach where everyone has a role to play and disaster management services are working with not for the community?
In this episode of Creative Responders, we’ll hear what happened when the City of Melbourne tackled this question and engaged artists in the co-design and facilitation of a preparedness exercise, working with the North Melbourne community to imagine better models of response and recovery.
The 2022 disaster preparedness simulation, Exercise Torrent, was a collaboration between City of Melbourne’s Emergency Management Department and Arts House that utilised an arts-based approach to develop a scenario for emergency management professionals, service providers and community organisations to interact with.
City of Melbourne’s Emergency Management Coordinator, Christine Drummond, takes us inside the process of developing the exercise, how it played out on the day, and how bringing the arts into the process provided a different lens for people to participate more readily.
We hear from artist facilitators Jonathan Craig and Dr Jen Rae and Arts House Creative Producer, Sarah Rowbottam, about how creative methodologies provide a layer of depth to the relational aspects of exercises like this, offering a window of opportunity into areas of preparedness sometimes overlooked by traditional processes, like accessibility.
The project provides a model for how creativity and the arts can support community engagement strategies and provide entry points for practicing the skills of collaboration that will help us to better respond when a disaster occurs.
Links / Further Reading:
Arts House
The Refuge Project
https://www.artshouse.com.au/artist-opportunities/refuge/
Together by Richard Sennett
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/together-9780141022109
Community Engagement for Disaster Resilience Handbook
https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/handbook-community-engagement/
Creative Responders in Conversation with Jen Rae
https://creativerecovery.net.au/creative-responders-podcast/in-conversation-series/s2-episode-10/
Creative Responders in Conversation with Kate Sulan
https://creativerecovery.net.au/creative-responders-podcast/in-conversation-series/s1-episode-8/
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Nathan Harrison is part of the creative team at Boho Interactive, a collective of Australian artists and game designers who create interactive performances and games exploring concepts from systems science, complexity theory, resilience thinking, game theory and network theory.
Nathan and Scotia discuss the wide-ranging applications of this work and how the participatory process of engaging in games has the power to ignite creativity, create shared languages, foster collaboration and provide entry points for exploring complex systems and ideas.
Links and Further Reading
Boho Interactive
https://www.bestfestivalever.com.au
Best Festival Ever Project
https://www.bestfestivalever.com.au/#/best-festival-ever/
Canberra 2060, Futures with a Capital F
https://www.bestfestivalever.com.au/#/canberra-2060/
Eden Marine High School Disaster Preparedness Program
https://www.eden.nsw.au/boho-interactive-kicks-off-disaster-preparedness-youth-group-at-eden-marine-high-school/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boho-interactive-kicks-off-disaster-preparedness-youth-group-at-eden-marine-high-school
Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World by Brian Walker and David Salt
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d7901f41e62ba340a30eb04/t/5d83f5e286a5bd19c4f55ff7/1568929253568/Walker+and+Salt+-+Sustaining+Ecosystems+and+People+in+a+Changing+Wor.pdf
Blood on the Clocktower
https://bloodontheclocktower.com
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From the epicentre of the Northern Rivers flood recovery, we are joined by Elly Bird and Katie Cooper-Wares. Both have been instrumental in the founding and development of the Resilient Lismore community recovery organisation, alongside other roles –Elly as a Councillor for Lismore City Council and Chair of Northern Rivers Arts and Katie as a dancer, artist, environmental educator and founder of the Creative First Aid Alliance group.
They discuss the need to reframe community preparedness; how the arts can support in reimagining the future after such an immense loss of safety and identity; and share on-ground learnings from living with the reality of compounding disasters in their community.
Links:
Resilient Lismore Facebook Group
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Melinda Rankin is the Director of Fabrik Arts & Heritage, located in Lobethal, a small regional town nestled in a picturesque valley on Peramangk and Kaurna Country in the Adelaide Hills.
Fabrik is an arts and heritage hub, run by Adelaide Hills Council. Its public program started in early 2019 and at the end of that year, the Cudlee Creek bushfire devastated the area.
As a newly established arts organisation with a remit covering both community and economic development goals, the team at Fabrik immediately looked to ways the premises and public program could play a role in supporting the community in its recovery.
Arts organisations play a vital role in communities they operate within. Fabrik’s considered approach to this work is a strong example of the meaningful impact arts organisations can have as a connector within their communities, in times of crisis and beyond.
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