MULCH: Performance Picnic in the System Garden

08 Nov 2019

Bring a picnic blanket and refreshments and join us for a splendid afternoon of live art and sonic performance in the University of Melbourne System Garden – an oasis in the heart of the Parkville campus. Performance chemist and curator Lichen Kelp brings together an eclectic range of artists to present a series of site-specific works in conversation with the plants and local ecologies of the Garden. Chemical reactions, improvised movement, experimental electronics, beekeeping, poetry and perfumery all combine in a dynamic program of esoteric and scientific investigation.

Free, all welcome. Map to the System Garden here.

PROGRAM TIMES

2pm: Welcome by curator Lichen Kelp

David Haines, photographic installation and perfume station accessible throughout the afternoon

2.15 – 3pm: Lisa Lerkenfeldt

from 2.45pm: Nic Dowse (Honey Fingers), participatory poetry and tea ceremony

from 3pm: Loren Kronemyer, durational digging performance

3 – 3.45pm: Tim Uebergang, Horticultural Curator, System Garden tour

4 – 4.45pm: Prof Jean-Pierre Scheerlinck, beekeeping talk

from 5pm: Kelp D and Benjamin Hancock

6pm: Event concludes

Supporters

MULCH: Performance Picnic in the System Garden is presented by Forum of Sensory Motion as part of The Potter’s 2019 Inside Out program, generously supported by Peter Jopling AM QC, Andy Zhang and Calvin Huang.

Supporters

The Potter acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we work and create. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.