PROJECT DOCUMENTS
Documents of our achievements
and/or ideas informing our process (2020-23)
Project Documents
The education kit that accompanied the 2024-5 exhibition tour
Part 1/2 Folio document used to secure venues, and propose a 2024-25 exhibition tour
Part 2/2 Folio document used to secure venues, and propose a 2024-25 exhibition tour
This slideshow tracks the history of project and also the development of the Interweaver designed by Donna davis - a core element of the project's grassland community of care process.
This document tracks the project's achievements with selected websites and milestone’s over the project's 2022-23 period
A map devised to show the interwoven structure of the project - using plant root imagery
Historic planning diagrams to show the interwoven structures and layers of the project
A general press release that was used to promote the project in 2022, updated to speak about the future stages of the project (2023-6)
Overview information for anyone interested in establishing their own Carbon Dating grass garden
Detailed information for establishing a Carbon Dating grass garden. Please contact us to get started
Instructional video for anyone setting up a Carbon Dating project-supplied grass garden mound kit. See proposal details in the link above
Proposal for grass garden at HOTA Gallery (Home of the Arts Gallery) Gold Coast - which ran between Nov 2002 and September 2023
Grass cards + written reflections. Provocations created by Daniele Constance for the grassland 'community of care’ process she led during
stage 1 growing phase. Card images donna davis
An explanatory document produced for the project's carers - between Oct 2022 and early 2023 as 'part of the project's 'grassland community of care process. The Interweaver is a sculptural device, for an exhibition space that plugs into the power, and can be placed on a secure bench or table. This version of the Interweaver was first exhibited at the Condensery Gallery, Somerset, Qld
An explanatory document produced for the project's carers - between Oct 2022 and early 2023, as part of the project's 'grassland community of care' process. The Interweaver is a sculptural device, for a home or workplace that plugs into the power, and can be placed on a secure bench or table. This smaller version of the Interweaver was used in most project's sites.
Assembly instructions for the Personal Interweaver shown in Jan 2024 for the 6th Art/Science Biennial, Beijing, China
Transit packing instructions for the Personal Interweaver shown in Jan 2024 for the 6th Art/Science Biennial, Beijing, China
Carbon_Dating is an experimental artwork designed to seed ‘consensual’ partnerships between Australian native grasses and humans, based upon their shared need to breathe each other’s ‘exhaled’ air.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the many lands on which we live, work and create, including our collaborators on Yirrganydji, Barunggam, Jagera/Yuggera, Turbal, Ugarapul, Jinibara, Kabi Kabi and Kombumerri Country. We acknowledge their ongoing connection and custodianship for Country. We pay our deep respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We recognise First Nations people as the first artists and scientists. Always was, always will be.
The 2024-5 Carbon_Dating exhibition tour is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts QueenslandAssisted by QUT School of Creative Arts, International Art Services (IAS), Native Seeds Pty Ltd, Artfully, and Embodied Media.
Between 2019-23 this project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. It was also supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF). The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government: Cairns Regional Council; Western Downs Regional Council; City of Gold Coast Council; Somerset Regional Council; and ArtsCoast as part of Sunshine Coast Council’s RADF program to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
Thanks also to QUT (School of Creative Arts, QUT Office of eResearch and Samford Ecological Research Facility). NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns; Dogwood Crossing Gallery, Miles; HOTA, Gold Coast; The Condensery, Toogooloowah; Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra; Native Seeds Pty Ltd and ReBul Packaging.
