Mapping #WildSydney>>

We’re mapping it all!!

As part of the exhibition Baadlands: an Atlas of Experimental Cartography

We have also been revisiting the database and populate it with 40+ new plants profiles.
The lot will be live at www.wildedibles.info on August 1, 6pm AEST

If you’re in Sydney come for the launch!

Wild Stories is moving!!

hi all,

to facilitate the reading and congregate all of the efforts in one place we decided to close this blog.

From now on you can come to read about Wild Stories on an older blog of ours>> weedyconnection.com/blog

thanks, see you there 🙂

Wild Stories, the exhibition

Wild Stories, a set by adamporter on Flickr.

WILD STORIES
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
1/12/12 – 31/1/13

“Imagine a world where we are all connected with nature – all species cohabitating in harmony, giving space to each other and allowing for the survival and thriving of each and one another.”

– Diego Bonetto

Artist, naturalist and forager, Diego Bonetto presents Wild Stories, an exhibition and public program about community and cultural connections with the Australian environment. Wild Stories is the result of an 18 month artist in residence program at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. This residency built on Bonetto’s longstanding commitment towards challenging and undermining our preconceived understanding of rightfully belonging species. Bonetto subverts our reading of everyday nature using age-old stories; stories from all over the world related to the species living amongst us, particularly weeds.
Wild Stories aims to provide an entry point into environmental belonging and cultural identity. As exotic as weeds may seem, Bonetto successfully harvests the knowledge, experience and traditions that people of South West Sydney inherently possess or underuse, often embedded in the traditional practices of pickled foods, medicinal herb remedies, crafts, wine, folklore and mythology. Moreover, Bonetto engages with disciplines as far apart as biology, ethno-botany, anthropology, sociology and theology in order to substantiate the need for a new understanding of environmental care, respect and stewardship.
Many people were involved in the production of Wild Stories. Diego Bonetto and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre would like to thank all of those who have made a contribution.

Mushroom Harvesting

 

Helping to crown with weeds>>

BICYCLE USER

A long time ago I promised to think more about the crown of weeds in King Lear. On October 12, 2012, more than two years since I made that promise, I was given that opportunity in public. I participated in the creation of a tradition at UNSW that involved the actual construction of a weedy crown. On this day Professor Deborah Bird Rose crowned me with weeds to celebrate the submission of my PhD*. Hopefully future students in the Environmental Humanities** will also be similarly crowned! The tradition was the collaborative brainchild of Drs Eben Kirksey, Thom van Dooren and Ms-not-quite-Dr myself and made with the assistance of Diego Bonetto, Sydney’s own King of Weeds. Eben suggested I make a costume to celebrate my submission, Thom was amicable to this idea, I came up with the idea of crowning myself with weeds and Diego helped me select the…

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My Crown of Weeds

My Crown of Weeds.