La Trobe Art Institute Bendigo would like to acknowledge that we stand on Jaara Country of which the members and elders of the Dja Dja Wurrung community and their forebears have been custodians for many centuries. We acknowledge their living culture and their unique role in the life of this region.
What's on at LAI:
Science Week Special Event
12.30-2.30pm Wednesday 14 August | FREE
Celebrate National Science Week 2019 at La Trobe Art Institute.
This special program of talks will explore complex scientific phenomena through the lens of visual art.
Participants will be guided through our current exhibition Autoluminescent with the exhibition curator Travis Curtinand then introduced to the physics behind the phenomena byLa Trobe University Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Dr Katherine Seaton.
Incidentally, Dr Seaton also creates mathematical fibre art, sometimes producing plastic yarn (plarn) from shopping bags to knit and crochet with. Her cross-disciplinary approach provides audiences with a practical example of the benefits of bringing Art and Science together.
La Trobe University Artist in Residence Sarah Goffman will then give an insight into her innovative use of recycled plastics. Sydney based Goffman, has an imaginative practice, delighting in the everyday details of our material existence. Plastic, over-abundant and infinitely variable, has formed the foundation of her artistic output over the last 20 years.
Science Week is Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology and thousands of individuals – from students, to scientists to chef, artists and musicians – get involved, taking part in more than 1000 science events across the nation.
Science Week is designed for everyone – it’s definitely not restricted to schools and universities – with events and activities and talks and shows for every age group.
Image: Bridge to Asia (detail) by Sarah Goffman at Murray Art Museum Albury 2019
Autoluminescent Curator's Talk
1pm Thurday 8 August
Meet LAI Curator Travis Curtin and hear about his latest show, Autoluminescent. This short informal floor talk will give you an insight into the work of Rebecca Baumann, Ross Manning and Brendan Van Hek. Autoluminescent explores the nature of visual perception, light-induced sensory experience, temporality, transformation and interplay between minimalism and monumentalism.
FREE | No booking required
Image: Ross Manning, Ambient Painting #7 (detail), 2018, acrylic, silver and dichroic glass on canvas, 200 x 200 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
SENSELAB SEMINAR #2 @ LAI:
2-5pm Wednesday 28 August
Sensing Animal Sociality We invite you to join us for a conversation around animal sociality, including the politics of play; expansive definitions of language; and more-than-human perception and creativity. Encouraging attunement to, rather than “capture” of, more-than-human lifeways, we celebrate animals as teachers and co-conspirators. Their radically different sensoria and capabilities are daily reminders that other worlds are possible. In this seminar we will co-compost ideas of play, sociality, and humanimality.
This is the second of three public seminar events in the lead up to a larger project at LAI in November and December called “minor movements: a rethinking of the exhibition.” Join a group of artists, designers, activists and academics in a conversation that seeks to create a space for gathering, reading, discussing and exchanging ideas.
