In conversation with artist Hannah Foley and exhibition tour

Articulate Matter

In conversation with artist Hannah Foley and exhibition tour

Please join us for an in-person conversation with artist Hannah Foley and Curator, Caine Chennatt.

Learn more from Hannah about their creative arts practice and the newly commissioned artwork, in the air, a 4-channel sound installation drawn from datasets published by the Centre for Safe Air researchers.

Saturday 29 March 2025
3pm - 4pm

Presenting Partner: Ten Days on the Island Festival

Learning and Research Partner: Centre for Safe Air | NMHRC Centre for Research Excellence

HANNAH FOLEY

Hannah Foley’s inquiry-led practice explores the material and affective exchanges that occur between bodies and their ecologies. Through her work, she facilitates place-based encounters with the more-than-human; revealing and responding to the tensions, reciprocities, and negotiations embedded in these relationships. Hannah works across performance, installation, text and sound; each work beginning with the body through processes of gestural and lived investigation.

Hannah has shown extensively within Lutruwita / Tasmania, and has presented work in national and international exhibitions. As a current PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania, her research seeks to define a performance practice sustained by hydrofeminist thought, focusing on the ‘hydropoetics’ of affective encounters through translation and collaboration with more-than-human bodies of water.

CAINE CHENNATT 

Caine Chennatt is a curator, arts administrator, and facilitator bridging exhibitions, collections, galleries, museums, and art projects with all audiences through the lenses of cultural humility and cultural leadership.

Caine is currently Director, Curatorial and Cultural Collections and Interim University Librarian at the University of Tasmania. His curatorial projects explore themes of expanded ways of knowing, plural identities, bridging perspectives, and hope.

Caine is an alumnus of Creative Australia’s International Curators Program, NIDA’s Master of Fine Arts in Cultural Leadership, and the Churchill Fellowship program (researching arts inclusion projects). Outside the arts, he is an accredited (NMAS) mediator and conflict-resolution practitioner.

Articulate Matter explores our relationship with air. Despite our perception of good air quality, events like bushfires have caused significant short-term impacts. As these events become more frequent, we face rising temperatures and increased dust pollutants.

This exhibition will leave you with a profound connection to the air we breathe, evoking gratitude, concern, hope, and recognition that the air around us reflects ourselves over time. What we derive from the air depends on what we put into it, creating an infinite loop of air changing life and our lives changing air.

This exhibition was developed by the University of Tasmania in partnership with the Centre for Safe Air, and will launch to coincide with the Ten Days on the Island festival 2025.

Artists: Jacobus Capone, Hannah Foley, Loren Kronemyer, Emily Parsons-Lord, David Sequeira, Philip Wolfhagen, Jemima Wyman

Curated by Caine Chennatt

_{Image Credits: (top) Hannah Foley, Aeriform Archive, 2023-. Web-based community project with interactive interface (detail). Image credit: Neon Jungle,  Hannah Foley headshot. Image by Gabrielle Eve, and  Caine Chennatt headshot, courtesy of the curator.}

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