Water Sundays
Kicking off the second half of GOMA’s exhibition Water is Water Sundays, which will take over GOMA to explore the different ways we can care about our water futures, through interactive tours, talks and workshops for little ones and grown ups alike.
The day’s highlights include an interactive kids tour hosted by performer, improviser and Artistic Director of D:Create, Deanna Borland-Sentinella, a Ghost Net Workshop where you can create a piece of coral out of ghost net that will be added to the Below the Tide Line exhibition, or join in on thought-provoking discussion of all things visually-appealing in the form of Curator Talks: Art in Action. If you’re experiencing eco-anxiety (yes, it’s a real thing), then delve into Talk Series: Keep Calm and Conserve the Planet and learn how Brisbane’s best and brightest are making positive environmental change through their professional projects.
On Sunday February 16, get an educational insight from individuals working with CSIRO and SEED Indigenous Youth Climate Network on how traditional Indigenous knowledge of the land and oceans is being used alongside science and activism at Indigenous knowledge: Science + Activism or learn about how brands are eliminating waste and using recycled resources at Redesigning our Future. Of course, you can still walk across the vast, rocky Riverbed created by Olafur Eliasson, see animals from around the world gather together to drink from Cai Guo-Qiang’s brilliant blue waterhole Heritage and take a peek of Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s truly frosty Snowman – be quick, and get there before it melts away!
Image 1: Peter Fischli / Switzerland b.1952 / David Weiss Switzerland, 1946-2012 Snowman 1987/2016 (installation view, SFMOMA) / © Peter Fischli and David Weiss / Zürich 2019 /Courtesy: Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London/Los Angeles; Matthew Marks, New York/Los Angeles; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich / Photograph: Mary Ellen Hawkins
Image 2: Cai Guo-Qiang / China b. 1957 / Heritage (installation view) 2013 Animals: polystyrene, gauze, resin and hide. Installed with artificial watering hole: water, sand, drip mechanism / Purchased 2013 with funds from the Josephine Ulrickand Win Schubert Diversity Foundation through and with the assistance of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © The artist / Pictured: Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia / Photograph: Chloë Callistemon, QAGOMA.
Image 3: Olafur Eliasson / Denmark b.1967 / Riverbed 2014 (detail) / Site specific installation / Pictured: Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia / Courtesy: The artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles. Photograph:Natasha Harth, QAGOMA.
Image 4: William Forsythe / America, b.1949 / The Fact of Matter 2009 / Site-specific installation comprising gym rings, fabric straps, gym mat and truss system / Dimensions variable. / Pictured: Installation view, William Forsythe: The Fact of Matter, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2019 / Courtesy: The artist / Photograph: Chloë Callistemon © William Forsythe
Image 5: Megan Cope / Australia, b.1982 / RE FORMATION (Noogoon/St Helena Island) 2016-2019 / Cast-concrete oyster shells, copper slag / Dimensions variable / Purchased 2019 with funds from the Contemporary Patrons through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art FoundationCollection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / Photograph: Installation view, GOMA, Brisbane, 2019. / Photographer: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA / Images courtesy: The artist and THIS IS NO FANTASY, Dianne Tanzer & Nicola Stein © Megan Cope