CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

 

CALLING FOR (f)route PHOTOS.

We are working on a (f)route publication. something beautiful. full of images. and good words. (and a big projection to launch it).

We want to capture all the amazing fruit and faces, stories and places that we have discovered along this fruit-filled journey. From Bairnsdale to Tubbut, Goongerah, Mallacoota, Cassilis, Buchan, WTree and Bruthen. With high quality digital art/photos.

So we are calling on photographers/digital artists to ener their work for inclusion in that publication. (The work needs to be based on East Gippsland fruit).

The publication will be produced by a team of local graphic artists to promote East Gippsland as an arts & fruit destination of substance.

Chaco Kato's residency in Cassilis will be the next big chance for photographers to respond to the (f)route project, (April 3-6). see http://www.chacokato.com/

We'll be providing information on how to submit work for consideration at the installation site (at the Cassilis Cemetery on 5 April at the (f)route breakfast), and online at froute.com.au. (soon).

or email andrealane@bigpond.com

PASSIONfruit Portable Community Museum

 

(f)route artist in residence Samara McIlroy will be in the valley for the second part of her project, which kicked off with a Pop-Up Museum at the Taste of Tubbut in February. Travelling from Bonang to McKillop's Bridge over three days (Tuesday 10^th – Thursday 12^th April) she is undertaking a mapping exercise to gather content for her speculative PASSIONfruit Portable Community Museum.

The PASSIONfruit Portable Community Museum is a celebration of community, local history and sharing the fruit harvest. Samara is seeking people who are interested in having conversations,  sharing personal stories, or passing on their knowledge and practical skills. It's all about growing, cooking, preserving, eating and harvesting fruit.

Project outcomes will include:

·   Collated fruit histories, artist maps and audiovisual documents

·   Newsletter; online and printed

·   Prototype for portable museum

·   Design for a (f)route Cart

Interested in being involved?

Please contact the Tubbut Neighbourhood House and Resource Centre, Ph: 02 64580295, Email: tubbutnh@bigpond.com

or the artist direct on samara.mcilroy@gmail.com

Chaco begins her Net Work

(f)route @ swifts creek

Chaco Kato was born in Sendai city, Japan and has been based in Melbourne, since 2006. Kato’s art practice involves many genres from process-based installation to improvisational drawing and picture book making. She is probably best known for her ephemeral, open-ended, installations,such as large scale string constructions, or dried veggie sculpture series.

Chaco's plan for Swifts Creek is to create a Net Work

I would like to create 'a net work' . I will connect the landscape with white strings, and by doing so, create a pathway. (The shapes, the form will be according to the site).

I m hoping to create some sort of almost mazelike pathway with white strings among orchard. People can come to create their own path or even little cubby house or spider webs.
froute-cartography.blogspot.com.au

Just checking out the (f)route sites in Swifts Creek & Cassillis.

A taste of the Taste.

(f)route @ Buchan

Yes - everyone loved our  (f)route intervention  at Buchan's Women on Farms Gathering.

They loved Josephine's (f)route CART - and they especially loved the 200 bottles of jams, chutneys, marmalade, fruit, relish, quetta and pickled plums that we gave away. Yes. GAVE AWAY. They couldn't believe their good fortune.

Josie was pleased to meet the worm farmer who particularly  loved the worm farm installed in her CART.

All a symbol of (f)route's generosity. Very gratefully accepted. Gawd we talked ourselves silly for hours.

And yes, it was a beautiful 6am drive into the Buchan Valley. :-)

Want to see who helped bottle this stuff?
Go here.

(f)route - such is life.

Did we mention that (f)route shared Goongerah with the Such is Life punk festival. At least a couple came along to (f)route :-)

Core (f)route member Fiona provided the venue for SIL festivities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXB6Jdz9XvM&feature=related

(f)route coiuld be more diverse than you think. :-)

(f)route labels

Off to Buchan to give the Women on Farms Gathering delegates their jars of jam, chutney, kasundi etc - all handmade by us (ie. from people all over East Gippsland). 

And to show off Josephine Jakobi's prototype jam-making (f)route CART. 

After tomorrow, we're all sleeping in.

ABC Open comes to visit (f)route

Picnic Point Farm, Bairnsdale

Quince WITH socks (in Swifts Creek)

The Orbost Show

Feeling fruity in Goongerah

 

Heading off to Goongerah this weekend.

Well, after being part of a FABULOUS Taste of Tubbut event - (f)route is  off to Goongerah.

Georgia Snowball is this month's artist in residence - in Goongerah. - [see her fabulous CV below!]

It's an outdoor 'movement' workshop - suitable for  visual artists, theatre makers and anyone who is interested in being outdoors and exploring what nature has to offer. (especially fruit)

And it's this weekend.

The workshops will be held in fruity locations - [while the local pickers and pressers are busy nearby.]

It's a busy weekend in Goongerah, and we're expecting a great vibe around the place.
Georgia's workshop is great reason for an arty adventure in a remote, fruit-filled location.

REGISTER NOW! [andrealane@bigpond.com]

It's free. And yes, it's an adventure.

And there's a (f)route breakfast on Sunday morning.

More about Georgia:

2011: Completed Master of Arts degree in Performance Studies, under Australian Post Graduate Award scholarship.

2002-2006: Completed Bachelor of Performance Studies with First Class Honours.

 2001: Certificate 3 Performance Studies, EORA TAFE, Sydney.


Training, Performance Projects and Papers

2010-present:

Performer/stilt walker at the Katherine Fringe Festival N.T.
Performed 'Maree's Room' as part of MA exhibition at the Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, Melbourne.

 Exhibited video, still images and interactive installation of  'Memos: the Imagination of Memory' at the Trocadero ArtSpace, Footscray, Melbourne.
Wrote, devised and performed 'Memos: the Imagination of Memory' as part of MA, at the Body Voice Studio, Footscray, Melbourne.

Ongoing participant: In The Company of Others 'Performance Practicum' with Helen Sharp, Margaret Cameron and John Howard, Melbourne.
Academic paper presentation 'The Body Imbued', ADSA conference ANU, Canberra.
Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Training, Melbourne.

2008:
Presented performance paper for 'Remembering Lives' conference at UNSW.
Participant in 'Memory' conference Swinburne University.

Participant in Gretel Taylor’s ‘body_place: forest’, Bodyweather project, Dandenong.
Ensemble dancer with Yumi Umiumare, Beyond Butoh 08 #2, Melbourne.
Participant at Tess De Quincey's Bodyweather workshop.
Butoh training with Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare.

2007:

Participant in residential Butoh workshop with Yumi Umiumare, Horsham.
Participant at Zen Zen Zo workshop ‘Darwin Stomp’, Darwin.

Traditional Butoh dance workshop with Yumi Umiumare and Mutsuko Tanaka from Japan.

2006:

Movement workshop, Body_Place Project with Gretel Taylor and Emma Strapps, Eltham.

2005:

Attended workshop in traditional Javanese dance with Indonesian choreographer Agung Gunawan as part of the Beyond Butoh 05 program.
Participant of the Solo Performance Commissioning Project 2005 with Deborah Hay at Findhorn, Scotland.
Participant at CPR Wales ‘Summer Shift’ workshop, ‘Sweetening the Abstract’ with Deborah Hay and Margaret Cameron and attendee at   Magdalena Project Women’s Performance Conference ‘The Articulate Practitioner, Articulating Practice’ Aberystwyth, Wales, UK.

Feeling Fruity?

So the plan is:  Saturday 10am at Legless Arms/  Lunch there / Then to Egg Rock for Sat arvo session /
Sunday brekky & morning session at Butterfly's /  ARvo at  Egg Rock

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SLOW ART

Our Goongerah Artist in Residence, Georgia Snowball, has provided a link that captures another slice of (f)route. SLOW ART. it's a core concept.

(I'm browsing their projects now - and will be posting (f)route for consideration)

http://www.slowlab.net/projects.html 

[A few shots of our Goongerah destination]