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Coconut Studios

Locality: Darwin, Northern Territory

Phone: +61 475 381 170

Address: 8/18 Caryota Ct, Coconut Grove NT 0810, Australia 0810 Darwin, NT, Australia

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25.01.2022 Witches & Wizards Yoga ~ Welcome to the Yogic school of witchcraft and wizardry! Is your spark feeling a little dull, has your creative juice evaporated with the dry season winds? Let’s get those juices flowing again. Playfulness and curiosity are the perfect monsoon to the covid creative drought. Step out of your everyday and into a world of your imagination. 2 x dates Saturday 4 & 11 | 5.30-7.30PM Free + Spaces limited + bookings mandatory... BOOK NOW @darwinfringefestival #darwinfringe

25.01.2022 GROUPXHUGXSHOW // OPENS FRIDAY 20th NOV 2020 6-9pm

22.01.2022 Featured is Coconut Studios’ project/ exhibition space for short-term hire ~ 6x13m, this empty room’s full of potential. Has access to a kitchen and bathroom, parking, the lot. ~~~ Proposals welcome. Get in touch: [email protected]

21.01.2022 I had not gone more than five or ten minutes down the channel when, rounding a bend, I saw in midstream what looked like a floating stick, one I did not recall passing on my way up. As the current moved me toward it, the stick developed eyes. - Val Plumwood, Being Prey For its inaugural event, Coconut Studios will host A stick developing eyes by Lauren Burrow. The exhibition will present an installation of sculptures responding to aspects of the life of Val Plumwood, a ph...ilosopher, writer, and activist who survived a saltwater crocodile attack in Kakadu in 1984. This work was developed during an artist residency at the Territory Wildlife Park, and is supported by the Northern Territory Government Department of Tourism, Sport and Culture. Lauren Burrow (b.1992) currently lives and works in Darwin, on Larrakia land. Solo exhibitions include Universal Building Supplies [MFA Thesis Exhibition], Bard College, New York (2019); Nuisance Flows, TCB, Melbourne (2019); Exiguous Plains, Milani Gallery Carpark, Brisbane (2019); Exhaustion Builds, West Space, Melbourne (2016); Lose the Language, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2015). Burrow is a 2020 Artist in Residence at the Northern Territory Wildlife Park. @territorywildlifepark #territorywildlifepark

20.01.2022 Looking forward to seeing everyone’s beautiful faces this Friday for the opening of GROUPXHUGXSHOW @coconutstudiosdarwin (6-9pm), a whopping 27 artworks to feed your hungry eyes. Big thanks to @pedro_pepsito & @love________actually for helping with the install. X

20.01.2022 Only two spots left ~ The Heart of Presence workshop facilitated by Kundalini Living - Yoga & Meditation and tma- Soul Alchemy this Sat at Coconut Studios

18.01.2022 November is almost December is almost the end of the year 2020. It’s hot. Don’t get hostile, get together. Celebrate the local arts community with its head still far enough above water enough to see a canvas and do something about it. GROUPXHUGXSHOW at Coconut Studios presents works by over 20 established and emerging artists (whose work we love) with live music by June Mills + band (who we also love). Artists to be announced soon. X

15.01.2022 Collective Self Mastery and the Mastery of Nature ~ a talk by Jeremy Kane presented by @darwinfreeuniversity at @coconutstudiosdarwin Monday 26th Oct, 6-7:30pm It has become commonplace to explain environmental degradation in terms of contemporary society’s ruthless desire to master and dominate nature. In this talk, I’ll argue that such explanations are not only false, but ideological, insofar as they obfuscate the real causes of environmental catastrophe. First, I’ll argue... that a society’s mastery over nature necessarily presupposes collective self-mastery, and that capitalist societies lack collective self-mastery. Second, I’ll explain this lack of self-mastery in terms of class division, and suggest that this division must be overcome to gain control over runaway processes such as climate change and future pandemics. Third, I conclude that the problem is not our society’s mastery over nature, but instead our society’s being mastered by nature; that is, the domination of society by chaotic, irrational and brutal forces radically indifferent to human life. Jeremy is a PhD student in philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He reads the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Marx with an eye to understanding the world and how it might be changed for the better. Image credit: Konstantin Yuon, New Planet (1921)

14.01.2022 Lauren Burrow’s ‘A stick developing eyes...’ (2020), work in progress ~~ 7 NOTES/STARS /// * Val Plumwood. 1939-2008. Eminent Environmental Philosopher, activist, writer. Survived a saltwater crocodile attack and three death rolls in Kakadu in 1984. She re-named herself after the trees in a forest in NSW which she inhabited until her death: the Plumwood tree. A linguistic transformation not dissimilar to the metamorphosis of Daphne into a Laurel in Bernini’s baroque sculpture... Apollo and Daphne. Plumwood learned a lot from Gagadju Elder Bill Neidjie, whose knowledge informed her sustained critique of Western philosophical traditions of human supremacy over the non-human world. * The centrifugal logic of traditional baroque sculpture echoes in the spinning motion of the crocodile’s death roll. * Plumwood/Yulbah/Eucryphia Moorei grows characteristic sucker shoots from its base. Some grow on to produce a ring of trunks while the original dies and rots making it hard to know how old the tree is, as the ‘youngest’ trunk is paradoxically also the ‘oldest’. * Plaster, an architectural material used in walls and cladding. Substrate, surrogate, gypsum: a mined site ripe for projection. * The minimum exposure posture of a floating crocodile allows its eyes, nostrils, tip of the head, and ears to pierce the water’s surface, while the bulk of its body remains hidden underwater. * A friend remembers being struck by the thought that, no matter how far you keep digging, there is always a surface. The surface is relentless. They ask, If I can only know what I can see and what I can measure, and therefore prove, do I thereby trap myself in a world of surfaces? At night, a torchlight can illuminate dozens of pairs of croc eyes sparkling across the still surface of a body of water. * Through their distance from the reality of actual animal eyes, glistening toy eyes create a closeness that could never exist between crocodile and child. The theory that humans like shiny things because of an innate need for fresh, flowing water re-surfaces here in these glitzy half-globes. @territorywildlifepark

13.01.2022 Friends and community ~ It’s no surprise that the opening of Coconut Studios will be postponed until further notice. Looking forward to a time when we can come together and re-group. What will feel relevant and meaningful on the other side? Stay safe and think of others. Who knows tomorrow.

13.01.2022 Bodies in space ~ surely we've missed... Easing into things at a pace that feels right, Coconut Studios is now taking short-term bookings for projects & activities that meet the necessary Covid-19 safety measures. Need a studio space to develop a project? Want to hold a meeting, workshop, yoga class, theatre rehearsal? Upstairs (6x13m) & downstairs (6x9m) ~ both for hire. Get in touch. x

13.01.2022 Art in Times of Survival: The Role of Art In Uncharted Territory 2020 has brought fire, drought, pandemic and riots ... and it's only halfway done with us! With mass life-altering events occuring in break-neck succession, all layers of government are struggling to retain hold of the social reigns. Treated as a fair-weather pursuit, a pleasant but ultimately inconsequential embellishment to the public budget, the arts has found itself the loser within recovery plans time and ...time over. This is despite the fact that it is the arts keeping us sane as we are quarantined at home for months, that it is the healing power of art and culture which builds us up and keeps us strong, that it is the arts which has made comprehensible the overwhelming issues of our time in a way no other medium can to connect with audiences on the most personal and intimate of levels. Join @darwinfreeuniversity as we hear from five key Northern Territorian artists and arts workers as they answer the question - how is the arts essential to our survival, now and into the future? What role does it play and what role should it play? And how do we fight for its recognition and resourcing going into these uncertain times? Hear from five local artists and arts workers as they lend us their unique suggestions and vital ideas, followed by a Q & A session where we need to hear from you, the NT community, on how we make creative recovery our central project. Bookings: @darwinfringefestival #darwinfringe #darwinfreeuniversity

12.01.2022 Last chance to see GROUPXHUGXSHOW this Sunday 10am~5pm. Open Sat by appointment only. Contact 0475 381 170. Xx Image: Anna McDermott, ‘Body Measurements (of Coconut Studios)’, 2020. @ahna_mcdermott

11.01.2022 Big thanks to the exhibiting artists, June Mills + the band and everyone who came and made the opening of GROUPXHUGXSHOW such a terrific night. Works featured: Tarzan Jungle Queen ‘COVID took the hug away from humans. HUMANS took the hug away from earth.’ (2020), Franck Gohier ‘Kiss’ (2006), Annie Moors ‘The Bus Ride to Annie’s Birthday’ (2020), Amelia Luscome & Jocelyn Tribe ‘Resistance - Surrender’ (2020), Tristen Harwood ‘Sun moon starts as the women drank tea and are Family Biscuits’ (2020), Liss Fenwick ‘Untitled’ (2020) from the series Humpty Doom, Rob Brown ‘Daddy Goes to Centrelink’ (2020). This exhibition runs until the 20th of December. X

11.01.2022 Gallery open from 1-5pm today. Pop in xGallery open from 1-5pm today. Pop in x

08.01.2022 Thank you to all who came to the opening of Lauren Burrow’s exhibition ‘A Stick Developing Eyes...’ on Friday night. The evening couldn’t have been more beautiful thanks to Lauren’s delicate and thoughtfully executed body of work, Larrakia Elder June Mills’ heartfelt Welcome to Country, the incredible food made by Tej, Peps, Jess & Pabs and Sylvie’s warm and welcoming service behind the bar. A very memorable first show. This exhibition is open to the public by appointment until Oct 10th. Contact 0401 045 998 Photo credits: Lauren Burrow, Tristen Harwood & Petrit Abazi

07.01.2022 Ok beautiful ppl, we’re on Tonight 6-8 pm. Come on down xx

07.01.2022 Install of Lauren Burrow’s exciting new exhibition ‘A Stick Developing Eyes...’ is almost complete. Looking forward to the opening, this Friday 6~8pm. Larrakia Elder, local activist, artist and inspiration June Mills will carry out a Welcome to Country at 6:30pm. Hope to see you all there.

02.01.2022 Thank you to Off The Leash for this little write-up on Coconut Studios in its latest March edition. X

02.01.2022 For gallery appointments, contact 0401 045 998.

01.01.2022 Coming soon to Coconut Grove. xxx Text design and edit by Tom Lynch