sydney biennale

We meet the Maori artist who’s single-handedly reviving the lost cultural tradition of barkcloth making. As a right-wing conservative government winds back the prevalence of Maori culture and the teaching of Te Reo Maori, Nikau Hindin is collaborating with artists from across the Great Ocean for the Biennale of Sydney. She explains the complexities and risks in trying to breathe new life into a cultural practice after more than a century.

My Art Crush …is Lavinia Fontana. National Gallery of Victoria curator Laurie Benson has long been fascinated by Europe's first professional female artist, 16th C. Baroque master Lavinia Fontana. First broadcast February 2022.

Nik Pantazopoulos has been revisiting all the significant doors in his life. The artist started the exercise alongside  therapy, digging through his memories to capture the flyscreen door of his childhood home, to the intriguing stall door of a train station toilet and the blue door of a cottage on Mykonos. They all represent thresholds in his life. The body of work, Elevation, is on at the 2024 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. 

So, you're given the keys to Australia's largest visual art festival, what next? Romanian-born curator Cosmin Costinas and Colombian Inti Guerrero are the co-directors of the Sydney Biennale. The art power couple tell us how they got to know Australian art and how they selected 116 artists from dozens of countries to showcase a world of contemporary art in this year's Biennale Ten Thousand Suns.

My Thing is... the 'olla'. Ceramic artist Richilde Flavell has been inspired by the ancient plant watering jug, the olla, to make artworks about motherhood and the body. Her exhibition Ok! Motherhood is on at Yarilla Arts and Museum in Coffs Harbour.

This year marks 100 years of Surrealism! Much more than just Salvador Dalí's melting clocks, Surrealism was a revolutionary set of ideas and aesthetics that formed in the aftermath of the trauma of WWI. Robert Zeller is a contemporary Surrealist painter and author of New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting.

How do you build with bamboo in a context that is highly regulated? Jed Long began his journey of building with bamboo by constructing temporary structures at festivals and art installations for The Biennale of Sydney in Australia. Today, he has relocated to Bali to work on the manufacturing of cross-laminated bamboo with Indobamboo. He is passionate about increasing the uptake of bamboo for different contexts and purposes.

Jed is the Co-Founder of Cave Urban situated in Australia.

In This Episode We Discuss:

• 01:49 The Origins Of Cave Urban And Working With Bamboo In Australia
• 03:32 A Bamboo Exhibition: First Bamboo Project
• 05:39 Harvesting, Treating, Processing, And Building With Our Own Building
• 08:10 Harvesting Bamboo: Running vs Clumping Bamboo
• 09:20 Learning From Bamboo Masters
• 13:56 From Working in Unregulated To Regulated Spaces
• 14:44 Bamboo At The Sydney Biennale
• 17:53 What It's Like To Build With Bamboo Within Regulations
• 21:17 Building In Community
• 23:30 Education In Exchange For Labor
• 25:36 Agritecture: From Plant to Building
• 26:45 Creating A Culture Of Bamboo In Non-Bamboo Areas
• 29:45 Bamboo In Context
• 31:11 Indobamboo and Laminated Bamboo
• 34:24 The Challenges With Laminated Bamboo
• 38:58 Opportunities With Laminated Bamboo
• 40:40 ISO Standard For Engineered Bamboo Products
• 44:25 A Positive Future For The Built Environment
• 44:42 The Price Gap Between Bamboo and Conventional Materials
• 47:52 Durability

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Learn more about Jed’s work at:

https://www.caveurban.com/

@caveurban

https://indobamboo.com/

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