I am not a noun. I am an ecology.
FUTURE NOSTALGIA looks at emergent narratives of the future through our relationships to song, dance, craft, food, ecologies, ourselves and each other.
Drawn from evolutionary ecological research + restoration, speculative fiction, surrealism, ecophilosophy and biomimicry. Haywood works to congeal collaborating participants, including; multi-instrumentalist/artist Sue Simpson, evolutionary biologist Dr. Katharina Nargar from the Australian Tropical Herbarium, JCU, krump dancers The Flood (Max Douglas), resonance artist/harpist Natalia Mann, Kuku Yalanji Song Woman/Weaver Merindi Schrieber, harpist Loni Fitzpatrick, the Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Forum of Sensory Motion, environmental scientist and rainforest seed specialist Michelle Chapman, and wild food researcher/chef Peter Hardwick amongst emerging others.
Charlotte Haywood lives on Bundjalung Country in Northern NSW. She is an experimental interdisciplinary artist working across the senses. She has cultivated a highly collaborative and process-driven practice that is dedicated to eco aesthetics and the nurturing of biodiversity; as the variety of life and ideas. Her performative practices and embodied materials can vary from hybrid architectural forms to the ancient technology of tapestry weaving in a symbolic un-weaving and reweaving of interrogated histories and land management practices, cultural botany, ecological restoration, gesture as language, synaesthesia, national community interdisciplinary-craft-geometry-science-environment networks, data as flavour, community cookbooks, creative disaster recovery, sonic weaving and evolving multi-narrational video works. Haywood is a master weaver. She experimentally trades between the tactile and the digital, form and phenomena- working across textiles, sculpture, installation, experimental architecture, public art, film, theatre, sound, music, flavour, linguistics, community and ecologies.
OPENING: 6-8pm, Friday 14 July 2023
Image: Charlotte Haywood, FUTURE NOSTALGIA (2023), digital collage, courtesy of the artist © Charlotte Haywood
