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April 27, 2024: "Re-enactment and Users Manuals for Expanded Cinema preservation", discussion between Lucas Ihlein, Louise Curham, Cinzia Nistico, for European Media Arts Festival, Germany.
Jan 27, 2024: Learning from Ecology, Art and Food, Panel discussion with Lucas Ihlein and Kim Williams (Australia), Colectivo Amasjio (Mexico), Xu Tan (China), and Michael Leung (Hong Kong), as part of Singapore Art Week.
October 31, 2023: "Re-enactment, Users Manuals and DNA Storage: work forever in progress by TLC", Centre for Creative Critical Practice (C3P), UOW.
October 14-15, 2023: Pootopia presents "V.I.Poo", at the Yours and Owls Festival. In collaboration with the Pootopia Global Challenges Team.
August 2023: Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation has won the Interdisciplinary Collaboration Award in the Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize. The winning work was Land Studio. Listen to an interview with KSCA's Laura Fisher here.
August 3, 2023: "Cone of Shame Drawings" - a workshop presented at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, in collaboration with Dr Kim Williams, Karen Zouain, and Cameron Barnes. In association with the exhibition A Line A Web A World curated by Katie Dyer.
18 March 2023: Discussion panel at Sydenham International about Ian Milliss' 1970 installation "Walk Along This Line" with Milliss himself, Liz Pulie, James Gatt. Hosted by Consuelo Cavaniglia.
Dec 2022: Creative Carbon Scotland has featured Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation as a case study in their Library of Creative Sustainability. The library features inspiring examples of sustainability outcomes achieved through artistic collaboration.
October 2022: Re-enacted performances of Horror Film 1 (1971, Malcolm Le Grice) presented at the Contour556 Canberra Biennial, in collaboration with Nicci Haynes and Louise Curham.
October 27, 2022: SICS Radio – Celebrating World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, podcast discussion with Louise Curham, (CSU), Lucas Ihlein (UOW), Asti Sherring (National Museum of Australia + University of Canberra), and Melanie Swalwell (Swinburne University of Technology). Listen to the 30 min podcast here.
September 19, 2022: Crazy Big Ideas: The Value of Science Fiction for Conceiving Antarctic Futures with Dr Lucas Ihlein (UOW), Dr Hilary Strang (University of Chicago) and David Spratt (Research Coordinator for the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration). Details and a recording here.
September 12, 2022: Guest lecture: Body knowledge and instructions – making manuals for 1970s art with Dr Louise Curham, at University of Canberra. Details here.
28 March - 8 May, 2022: A chapter about Baking Earth: Soil and the Carbon Economy with texts, images and videos has been included in an interactive book by Philip Ely entitled The Climate Domesday Book. The book is part of the exhibition Energaia at John Curtin Gallery, Perth.
November 2021: Glimpses of Poo-topia (the magazine) by Don Poo-leone - now available via this link.
November 2021: Plastic-free Biennale (the book) by Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein, with design by Mickie Quick - now available via this link.
October 2021: New book chapter "Social Objects, Art and Agriculture", in Muller and Langill, Curating Lively Objects, published by Routledge.
Sept-Oct 2021:Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein: Plastic-free Biennale at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery.
March 2021: with KSCA, launching newspaper "An artist, a farmer and a scientist walk into a bar..." at Fermenta Festival, Kandos. Details here. Online version of the newspaper is here.
Jan-March 2021: Space YZ exhibition of University of Western Sydney Alumni at Campbelltown Arts Centre, curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham.
Dec 2020: New article published: Lucas Ihlein and Kim Williams, "Manifesti for a Plastic-free Biennale", in Axon: Creative Explorations, Volume 10, Number 2, December 2020, special edition on the theme of "MANIFESTOS, DIATRIBES AND CREATIVE INTERVENTIONS".
Sept 2020: Working with Laura Fisher and KSCA with UOW students on Land Studio. More info here.
March 14 - June 8, 2020: Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein, Plastic-free Biennale, as part of NIRIN Biennale of Sydney (Artistic Director Brook Andrew)
Feb 12, 2020: "Lessons from the Kaldor Studio: Nadia Odlum and Lucas Ihlein in conversation with Antonia Fredman", Art Gallery of NSW
Nov 9 - Dec 15: EXTRA!EXTRA! at Art Gallery of NSW, as part of Making Art Public (Kaldor Public Art Projects).
October 4, 2019: Old Ways New Ways, Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens, as part of Watershed Land Art Project. Video documentary about the event here.
September 7-8, 2019: Groundswell, Where Art, Farming and Science Meet, at The Living Classroom, Bingara
July 2019: 'The Soil' with Lucas Ihlein, Kim Williams and Simon Mattsson. Podcast with Bec Dean, from The Constellations series, produced by DLux Media Arts.
July 2019: Chapter co-authored with Kim WIlliams, "Two places: working and walking with waterways" in book, 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder by the MECO Network, Open Humanities Press.
June 15, 2019: ¢ompo$t aeration lecture performances as part of Dark Mofo, Hobart. Curated by Lucy Bleach and Nadège Philippe-Janon.
May 2019: two articles about The Beacon at Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens by Kirili Lamb at the Weekly Times. "Minerals Mulch and Microbes", and "Group a beacon shining bright with ideas".
May 2019: "DIRT → SOIL → EARTH: THE ART OF BUILDING LIFE", essay included in the Kaldor Public Art Projects Education Kit to accompany project by artist Asad Raza. You can read the essay here.
May 15, 2019: "AUSTRALIAN FARMERS CAN REVERSE THE GLOBAL EFFECTS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: CARBON NATION", article by Colin Taylor, The Weekly Times
March 23, 2019: Soil and the Carbon Economy Roundtable Discussion at Monash University Museum of Art, 2-4pm. With Allan Yeomans (inventor of the Yeomans Carbon Still), Louisa Kiely (Carbon Farmers of Australia), Dru Marsh (EPA Victoria), Lucas Ihlein (artist), Niels and Maja Olsen (regenerative farmers).
March 20, 2019: 1pm. MADA Forum - talk by Lucas Ihlein at Monash Art Design Architecture, open to students, staff and public.
March 12, 2019: Greening the Apocalypse, discussion about Baking Earth project, RRR radio Melbourne.
March 9, 2019: Soil Sampling Field Trip - public event as part of Baking Earth: Soil and the Carbon Economy project with Allan Yeomans at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) Melbourne.
Feb 9, 2019: Shapes of Knowledge, curated by Hannah Mathews, exhibition launch at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)
Nov 23, 2019: Sunflower and Song - harvest celebration at Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens.
November 2, 2018: Sugar vs the Reef? exhibition launch at Artspace Mackay, Queensland.
August 26, 2018: Watershed Land Art Project presents SEED AND SONG at Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens, Queensland.
July 2018: Lucas Ihlein, 2018, "Blogging as Art: Life Writing Online", chapter in new book Offshoot: Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice, edited by Quinn Eades and Donna Lee Brien, UWA Press. Read a pre-press version of the text here.
May-June 2018: Field research (California, Nevada, New York) with collaborator Kim Williams to exchange tactics with artists and organisations working with environmental management (Newton Harrison of Harrison Studio, Yerba Buena Arts Center, Fritz Haeg of Salmon Creek Farm, Bill Fox of Nevada Museum of Art, University of California Santa Barbara Environmental Humanities, Lou Pesce of Metabolic Studio).
June 2018: Barb Bolt and Lucas Ihlein, 2018, "Socially Engaged Art as a Boundary-Rider", in Associations: Creative Practice and Research, edited by James Oliver, Melbourne University Press. Read a sample of the chapter here.
May 18, 2018: Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein, Farmer-artist Collaborations: An Australian perspective, at Climate Justice for Climate Change Mini-Conference, University of California Santa Barbara.
April 11 - May 18, 2018: Diagrammatic: Works by Lucas Ihlein and collaborators, exhibition curated by Jasmin Stephens, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne.
March 19, 2018: What do we Teach, How do we Learn? public forum moderated by Mel Ratliff, moderated by Mami Kataoka and Lucas Ihlein, Artspace, Sydney, as part of Sydney Biennale.
March 16, 2018: Creative Ecologies: One day workshop on art, science and community collaboration in the Anthropocene, keynote presentation by Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein, James Cook University, Cairns.
February 2018: Watershed Land Art Project, new project as part of Sugar vs the Reef? begins at Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens, Queensland.
Nov 30 - Dec 1 2017: Transforming Vulnerability Conference, University of Wollongong Global Challenges Program, Lucas Ihlein presentation "Sugar vs the Reef? How artists and farmers can work together on complex eco-social problems".
October 2017 - February 2018: Walking Upstream: Waterways of the Illawarra, exhibition in collaboration with Kim Williams and Brogan Bunt, Wollongong Art Gallery.
An integral part of this exhibition is a program of public walks - details here, bookings essential.
November 2017: Stir: Social Art Lab in Bejing, featuring some of the graphic works produced by Lucas Ihlein for Sea Pearl White Cloud.
July 30, 2017: Sunset Symphony in the Sunflowers, a public presentation component of Sugar vs the Reef? in collaboration with farmer Simon Mattsson, artist Kim Williams, and media-maker Kim Kleidon, Mackay, Qld.
July 15, 2017: Art and Agriculture Roundtable, public discussion facilitated by Lucas Ihlein as part of The Long Paddock Exhibition curated by Joni Taylor, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW.
June 29, 2017 - January 7, 2018: 4.543 billion. The matter of matter exhibition at CAPC musée d’art contemporain Bordeaux, including lithographic print works by Lucas Ihlein with Louise Kate Anderson from the Environmental Audit series. Exhibition curated by Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna (Latittudes).
June 6, 2017 Bringing public art to life in Green Square- Diego Bonetto and Lucas Ihlein are presenting the work of SquatSpace (Redfern Waterloo Tour of Beauty) as part of this public discussion hosted by City of Sydney. Event details here.
April 2017: Launch of the Futurelands2 Newspaper publication, at the CEMENTA17 Festival in Kandos.
November 12-13, 2016: Futurelands2, a public forum on diverse human relationships to land. This event brings together farmers, artists, Indigenous historians and land custodians, soil scientists, economists, geographers converging in Kandos. Presented by KSCA - Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation.
September 2016: Unlikely Journal: Fieldwork published, co-edited by Brogan Bunt and Lucas Ihlein.
September 2016: Lucas Ihlein: 1:1 scale art and the Yeomans Project in North Queensland, interview with Latitudes, in Artlink Magazine.
April - June, 2016: Sydney-Guangzhou, collaborative project between 4A Centre for Contemporary Art (Sydney) and Observation Society (Guangzhou) including artists Lucas Ihlein and Trevor Yeung. Residencies during April and May, exhibition in June in Guangzhou, then in July-August in Sydney.
April-May 2016: SquatSpace's Redfern Waterloo Tour of Beauty, presented in association with Keg de Souza's School of Displacement in the Biennale of Sydney.
May 4, 2016: "Terms of Engagement: Ethics and Participatory Art" at VCA, Melbourne. Video documenting this event has been posted here.
April 4, 2016: "LIVE ART, SOCIAL & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: METHODOLOGIES OF PRACTICE" Public Forum, at UNSW, organised by Stephanie Springgay and Lenine Burke. Lucas Ihlein invited to participate as "live writer". See report on event here.
November 2015: "Re-enactment / Repetition / Reiteration / Re-performance as embodied research", panel at AAANZ Conference, Brisbane, chaired by Louise Curham and Lucas Ihlein. Call for papers is here.
September 2015: Bundanon Siteworks "The Feral Amongst Us", commissioned print as graphic for public event.
August 2015: "Tending the Archive – Re-enacting 1970s Live Art" presentation by Louise Curham on behalf of Teaching and Learning Cinema at Australian Society of Archivists Conference, Hobart.
August 2015: Curating Lively Objects: Post-disciplinary perspectives on media art exhibition, ISEA Conference, Vancouver, chaired by Caroline Langill and Lizzie Muller.
August 2015: Workplace Relations: The Allan Kaprow Papers, posted at Bilateral Blog.
July 2015: Big Fag Press Newsletter: upcoming Share a PL8 workshop with artist Mirra Whale.
June 2015: Unlikely Journal, special themed edtiion on "Field Work", Guest Editors Brogan Bunt and Lucas Ihlein, call for proposals closes June 30, 2015.
May 2015: Performance Matters Journal: Re-enactment of Malcolm Le Grice's Horror Film 1, journal article by Lucas Ihlein and Louise Curham
May 2015: Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone in 2015, posted at Teaching and Learning Cinema.
May 2015: Teaching and Learning Cinema presents Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone at Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra.
May 2015: Invited presentation at UNSW Art and Design Guest Lecture Series.
April 2015: The Questions We Ask Together, book edited by Gemma Rose Turnbull, published by Open Engagement in Print.
April 2015: CEMENTA festival 2015, Teaching and Learning Cinema presents outdoor screening of Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone, program here.
March 2015: "The Yeomans Project: Peri Urban Field Work", published in Axon Journal, Vol 8, Edited by Shane Strange.
February 2015: Sugar vs the Reef: The Story so Far, posted at Yeomans Project.
November 2014: Invited Presentation at "Future Forward: NAVA National Visual Arts Summit", Carriageworks.
October 2014: Does postgraduate study make for better art?, posted at Bilateral Blog
June 2014: Teaching and Learning Cinema's work in progress on the re-enactment of Malcolm Le Grice's Horror Film 1 at CCAS, Canberra.
March 2014: Reconciling Values: How do you reconcile values that are different between you, your collaborators and the work’s public or audience?, contribution to Open Engagement blog project edited by Gemma Rose Turnbull.