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25.01.2022 Introducing @posts4hope, a digital space of TERRAIN since April 2019. This project is dedicated to heartwarming humanity and hope, delivering real-time environmental good news stories as they happen to your feeds. http://instagram.com/posts4hope

24.01.2022 TERRAIN is participating in the NGV Art Book Fair 2020 Through thoughtful design, we can produce cultural frameworks that improve the way humans embrace their urban precinct as a habitat encompassing a positive and mutualistic relationship with non-human actors. Recognising too, how technology has encroached upon our understanding of life helps us come to terms not only with the technologies we have produced, but what it means to be human. ... TERRAINs concept table illuminates the transformative power of art and design publishing to engage critical dialogues across fields of ecology, futurism, technology and culture. Design Week Opening Thursday 12 March 69pm Friday 13 March 10am5pm & NGV Friday Nights 6-10pm Saturday 14 March 10am5pm Sunday 15 March 10am5pm + Catch the 'Non-Fiction Art Writing' panel {10-11am, 14/03/20 @ Clemenger Auditorium} Playful, thoughtful and dynamic intersections of art and nonfiction: panelists showcase and discuss the theory and practice of writing in the expanded field, performative collaborative texts in artist-led publishing, and convergences between human-nature relations, technology and art. Featuring Lucinda Strahan (RMIT non/fictionLab & ACCA) Kiara Lindsay (Inhabit Journal), Cristina Napoleone (TERRAIN Projects), and Fayen dEvie and Lizzie Boon (3-Ply), moderated by David Carlin (RMIT non/fictionLab).

24.01.2022 Subtitled still from Sanctuaries of Silence directed and produced by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Adam Loften. Follow acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton on an immersive listening journey in this #VR experience available daily 11-9pm at TREES with Emergence Magazine.

24.01.2022 . Julietta Singh (2018) in 'Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements' from Duke University Press. Photo by Sean Carroll at TREES with Spiritual Ecology: Emergence Magazine.

24.01.2022 Over the past century, farming and the needs of a growing population have replaced nearly all of Ethiopias old-growth forests with agricultural fields. This film tells the story of the countrys Church Forestspockets of lush biodiversity that are protected by hundreds of churches scattered like emerald pearls across the brown sea of farm fields. Like all stories, this one is complex, writes Jeremy. Its not a simple feel-good story about church forests and how wonderfu...l they are. But its also not hopelessanother story of how bad things are and the corruption and greed of humanity desecrating what should be held sacred. These little blips of green rising out of vast swaths of deforested brown offer hope and a vision of life abundant. See The Church Forests of Ethiopia directed by Jeremy Seifert on Friday 14th February as one of the films screening at the TREES A Multisensory Exhibition outdoor cinema from 7-9pm.

23.01.2022 When I hear people chanting that we ought to go on to Mars, Im thinking, well, why dont we get our act together here on Earth first and go to Mars as human beings, not as jingoistic Americans or Chinese or Russians or Indians. Lets just do it as human beings. Bill Anders It was a very, very sobering look to see this beautiful little blue marble in the middle of all that darkness, and you realise how lonely we really are on this wonderful Earth. And I think it gave a l...ot of people hope and transcended national boundaries. Of course, things got back to normal rapidly, but at least for an instant in history, I believe that people looked upon themselves as citizens of the Earth. Frank Borman We were in a spacecraft having to work closely together to accomplish the mission. Down here we seem to not be able to do that. Jim Lovell Watch Emmy nominated film Earthrise for Outstanding Short Documentary as one of the films screening next Friday 7-9pm at our TREES outdoor cinema with Spiritual Ecology: Emergence Magazine - followed by a Q&A with Earthrise Director Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee. TREES A Multisensory Exhibition

22.01.2022 What memories are held within the rings of a tree? This VR experience is a journey into the memories of one of the most revered trees in the world - a 400-year-old Japanese White Pine bonsai that witnessed - and survived - the atomic blast in Hiroshima. The Atomic Tree, directed and produced by Emmy nominated filmmakers Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Adam Loften and written by Pulitzer-prize finalist David Haskell - is the second VR experience on display at our first event all a...bout TREES with Spiritual Ecology: Emergence Magazine in just over a week. https://www.facebook.com/events/525833718032975/ https://www.atomictree.org/

22.01.2022 ’ . , , , , , . Last week for National Science Week, we added the GPlates Portal to the Digital Directory, and sat down (remotely) to interview the EarthByte group. We discussed the new additio...n, interconnected simulations, the fifth dimension, improving community science literacy through art-science collaboration, and the evolution of mapping technologies - to name just a few topics. Have a read of the full interview in the links below. Excerpt of words by geoscientist, Dr Maria Seton. https://www.auscope.org.au/news-f/gplates-digital-directory https://www.scienceweek.net.au//gplates-x-digital-directo/

22.01.2022 All the raspy-voice myna birds have come here, to this old swamp, where the ghost swans now dance the yellow dust song cycles of drought. Around and around the dry swamp they go with their webbed feet stomping up the earth in a cloud of dust, and all the bits and pieces of the past unravelled from parched soil. - The Swan Book, by Alexis Wright. Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. She is an esteemed author of ...award-winning novels Plains of Promise (1997), Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013), in addition to having worked extensively in government departments and Aboriginal agencies across four Australian states and territories as a land rights activist. Alexis is a distinguished fellow in Western Sydney Universitys Writing and Society Research Centre and the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne. Engage in conversation and listen to a reading from Alexis Wright this Saturday at 7pm of TREES A Multisensory Exhibition with Spiritual Ecology: Emergence Magazine.

21.01.2022 But I wonder, can we at some point turn our attention away to say the vulnerability we are experiencing right now is the vulnerability that songbirds feel every single day of their lives? Could this extend our sense of ecological compassion, to the rest of our more-than-human relatives? https://www.theguardian.com//robin-wall-kimmerer-people-ca

19.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who made it out to the first TERRAIN event, a physical space on TREES in partnership with Spiritual Ecology: Emergence Magazine. Here is a still from the Saturday afternoon panel on The Social Lives of Trees with Tree Projects Stephen Watson, more-than-human geographer Dr. Catherine Phillips and socio-ecological anthropologist Monica Minnegal and hosted by TERRAIN Projects director Cristina Napoleone. Featuring a bucket in the front of the room capturing ceiling drips of the rains that extinguished the fires.

18.01.2022 Getting excited for TERRAINs first book fair this weekend. Heres a sneak peak of some of the titles youll see on our concept table. Come say hi #melbourneartbookfair NGV Art Book Fair: TERRAIN Projects National Gallery of Victoria

18.01.2022 Hattie Molloy is the artist behind the grass mounds at TREES. You can listen to David Haskells Eleven Ways of Smelling a Tree essays that correspond to each aroma installation, whilst lounging in the first section of grass and be surrounded by wild fennel; or immerse in the VR experiences up the back! TREES will only be open two more days, Saturday and Sunday 11am-9pm - if youre hoping to get in on the VR, we suggest you dont leave it to the final hours!

16.01.2022 Speaking tonight on the VR For Change- VR Talks (Panel & Q&A) Real World VR, TFF panel at Loop Bar alongside Dr. Christian Thomson AO, Lester Francois and Nicola Petrides - as storytellers using the VR medium to explore earth, culture, nature, song, language, memory, future and transition. On this panel, TERRAIN director Cristina Napoleone will be discussing the two VR experiences Sanctuaries of Silence and The Atomic Tree that were featured in the TREES exhibition with Spiritual Ecology: Emergence Magazine.

16.01.2022 For the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we would like to introduce the Digital Directory (www.terrain.earth/digital-directory), the only TERRAIN approved internet directory out there for all your browsing needs! The Digital Directory contains a selection of playful websites from across the internet. Socially distance from humans and instead spend quality time reconnecting with non-humans (plant, animal, machine) - and have some fun along the way. Drawing upon ideas of ec...o tourism, you can follow the trade winds across the globe, watch hummingbirds nest in La Verne, CA, and listen to the radio in Croatia. The directory will be updated as we find more destinations, and there will be temporary links to various live-streamed events as they arise. First up on the live streams are Earth Day Live, followed by Bunker presents isoStream (Non-stop for 32 hrs) this weekend, and Club Quarantaene next weekend (keep your eyes peeled for the floating icon). Made in isolation by TERRAIN Projects and Girl On Road/MTLDA.

16.01.2022 Smell is the most ancient of senses. Before life evolved eyes and ears, cells were conversing in the language of molecules. Cell membranes bristled with receptors, waiting for arriving signals from other cells both near and far. This is communication by physical messenger, a molecule from one being traveling to another, blurring the edges of individuality. Installation adapted from David G. Haskells Eleven Ways Of Smelling A Tree. Listen or read the full essay online at https://emergencemagazine.org/story/eleven-ways/. Photo by Sean Carroll.

15.01.2022 Emmy nominated for Outstanding Short Documentary last year, EARTHRISE tells the story of the first image captured of Earth from space in 1968. Told solely by the Apollo 8 astronauts (#JimLovell, #BillAnders and #FrankBorman), the film recounts their experiences and memories and explores the beauty, awe and grandeur of the Earth against the blackness of space. The Earthrise image shifted the vision of space from one that leaves the Earth behind to one that marvels in the rare ...magnificence and beauty of our home planet. It ushered a collective awareness of the Earth as a whole, transcending borders and boundaries, and became a symbol used by many to instill this sense of wonder and stewardship for planet Earth. Told fifty years later, the story of Earthrise compels us to remember this shift and to reflect on the Earth as a shared home. Take your valentine to our outdoor cinema on Friday 14th February of our TREES event to watch Earthrise, The Church Forests of Ethiopia, Lost World and Counter Mapping followed by a Q&A with Earthrise director Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee. Did we mention there will be tree flavoured ice-cream supplied by Gelato Papa by donation for Wildlife Victoria, with the projection set-up from Little Projector Company - Projector Bike.

15.01.2022 Silence is the poetics of space, what it means to be in a place. The whole topography of the surrounding landscape is revealed to me in many layers of the echo that come toward me, and I think to myself, I know exactly where I am. - Gordon Hempton Experience this award-winning #VR film Sanctuaries of Silence directed and produced by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Adam Loften at our TREES event with Spiritual Ecology: Emergence Magazine from the 13th-16th February. The experience follows acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton on an immersive listening journey into Olympic National Park, one of the quietest places left in North America.

14.01.2022 If you’re in Melbourne, join us on Parliament Steps at 2pm this Saturday in solidarity. @ Parliament of Victoria

14.01.2022 Here we are all setup for the #melbourneartbookfair at the National Gallery of Victoria! Special events include a short presentation followed by a panel discussion with TERRAINs director Cristina Napoleone from 10-11am tomorrow morning in the Clemenger Auditorium; followed by a chat in the Grollo Equiset Garden with urban beekeeper Nic Dowse of Honey Fingers from 1-2pm to launch Beehives published by innen books.

12.01.2022 Produced in partnership with Emergence Magazine, this exhibition comprised a four-day program for visitors to engage with the power and wonder of trees through ...virtual reality, botanical installations, film, aroma, talks, performances and more. TREES was designed as a space for contemplation, for gaining new perspectives on trees, and to reimagine our relationship to the living world. 13 16 February 2020 Exhibition review: http://unprojects.org.au/un-extended/reviews/trees/ Photography: Sean Carroll, Sarah Lay, Matias Reyes, Emergence Magazine and Kody Anh Nguyen.

12.01.2022 Distance from humans, spend quality time with non-humans. hello may I have some worms by @daysanimals

12.01.2022 . , , , , , . Last week for National Science Week, we added the GPlates Portal to the Digital Directory, and sat down (remotely) to interview the EarthByte group. We discussed the new additio...n, interconnected simulations, the fifth dimension, improving community science literacy through art-science collaboration, and the evolution of mapping technologies - to name just a few topics. Have a read of the full interview in the links below. Excerpt of words by geoscientist, Dr Maria Seton. https://www.auscope.org.au/news-f/gplates-digital-directory https://www.scienceweek.net.au//gplates-x-digital-directo/

11.01.2022 Because, very slowly, we remove our layers by decentering the human from centre stage. To empathetically connect and emerge as the post-human (#species, #atom, #machine).

10.01.2022 Brent Watkins is a dancer (traditional/hip hop), didgeridoo player and visual artist, who has established himself in the Melbourne cultural arts scene over the past decade. Brent is a Gunai/Kurni man from southwestern Victoria, with Noongar Yamatji ancestry from WA, and currently residing on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land in Naarm, Melbourne. Brent gets his inspiration from his Nan, Rita Watkins. In his own words: Growing up seeing her fight for country and our people was ...inspirational. She is a strong Kurni woman who fights for fairness and equality. Now it is my responsibility to fight for country, for my son and generations to come. Drawing from his ancestral epistemology, combining it with contemporary narratives, Brent conveys the struggles that First Nations people are experiencing in Australia today, and globally. See Brent perform on the didgeridoo at the TREES exhibition opening 6-9pm next Thursday.

09.01.2022 If youre in Melbourne, join us on Parliament Steps at 2pm this Saturday in solidarity. @ Parliament of Victoria

09.01.2022 The saturated worldview of human-nature separation is the underlying cause of our ecological crisis.

08.01.2022 On Monday night well be talking on a panel as part of the Transitions Film Festival x Real World VR event VR For Change about the two VR films that were featured in the four-day TREES exhibition with Spiritual Ecology: Emergence Magazine. If you missed them last weekend, theyll be available to experience again in the VR Pack #2 !

07.01.2022 Scaffold install for Alisha Anderson's film Meristem. In the weeks and months following devastating wildfires, Alisha bears witness to a stand of scorched evergreen trees in the forests of Oregon. The film follows her process of sitting with the trees through the changes of three seasons. In the presence of these fallen giants, she enquires of the trees how to mourn, how to face loss, and how to be present in the act of witnessing.

07.01.2022 If the land is destroyed so is our dreaming. Our dreaming is our story. Listen to Arrernte woman Amanda Mahoments storytelling on the Djab Wurrung sacred birthing trees at the TREES exhibition opening 6-9pm next Thursday. Vic Roads wish to continue a colonial legacy in the name of safety and development. Their project, a four lane highway, shaving a mere three minutes of travel time, plunders 3000 trees, including significant birthing trees. One tree is 800 hundred years o...ld and has birthed over 50 generations inside her. Djab Wurrung birthing trees' protector Amanda and her family have been protesting on the side of a highway, two hours from Melbourne, for almost 2 years. "To our People, the land is our means of survival. It is our food, spirit, identity and culture. Our lands have a spiritual value and not an economic one. If the land is destroyed so is our dreaming. Our dreaming is our story. It is what connects us to the beginning of time, back to our spirit ancestors, our creators."

06.01.2022 TREES is open! Come by tonight for the official opening 6-9pm

06.01.2022 For the wildlife and people of Koh Sralau, the mangrove forests and the sand that root and ground these forests are jewels in and of themselves. They are valued for what they are and not for what they could be. The sand is a jewel because it adorns and gives life and sustenance to the mangroves and the creatures and the people who have made their home here. Once it is mined and stripped from its home, it loses its luster. It becomes just sand, sterile and lifelesswithout a h...ome, without roots, without memory. What kind of world can be built from sterile and lifeless sand and land that has no roots, no history, and no memory, except for the violent extraction from its homeland? Never before have I witnessed the mass movement of land from one country to another, not for farming, not for housing or economic development, but for pure unadulterated entertainment. Since 2007, Singapore imported over 80 million tons of sand, worth more than $740 million, from Cambodia. Marina Bay Sandsa 55-story hotel, resort, and casino valued at $6.6 billion, which includes the land costis considered the most expensive stand-alone casino property in the world. Gardens by the Bay, a billion-dollar garden theme park, is built on top of 250 acres of sand or reclaimed land. The theme park purports to introduce its visitors to a mysterious world veiled in mist, where they can learn about rare plants and their fast-disappearing environment; a world grounded on the principles of environmental sustainability. It is ironic that a place that aims to teach concepts of environmental sustainability is literally built on a foundation that is not environmentally sustainable at all. If you didnt see Lost World by Kalyanee Mam at the TREES cinema night, its free to watch on Spiritual Ecology: Emergence Magazines website: http://emergencemagazine.org/lost-world. #environment #sand #dredging #singapore #kohsralau #casino #entertainment #sustainability #ecosystems #mangroves #economicdevelopment #development #health #wellbeing #nonhuman #morethanhuman

06.01.2022 Congratulations to our friends over at Emergence Magazine

04.01.2022 We live in a world with many ways of knowing, with many different systems of knowledge. Knowledge that Zuni people have about the landscape has been underestimated, hasnt been clearly understood. Its time to assert that we have the knowledge of place and challenge the idea of what maps are about. Jim Enote Jim Enote is a Zuni Farmer and Director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center. For the past several years, Jim has been working with Zuni artists to create m...aps that bring an indigenous voice and perspective back to the land, countering Western notions of place and geography and challenging the arbitrary borders imposed on the Zuni world. In this short film with companion multimedia essay, Jim and the Zuni artists offer a perspective on maps, one not based on ownership and imposed names, but rather on memory, ceremony, song, and a deep relationship to the land. Looking for plans this Valentines Day? Counter Mapping will screen during our outdoor cinema Friday night with a selection of other original Emergence Magazine short documentaries. Get down early if dont want to miss out on Gelato Papas tree-flavoured ice-cream by donation for Wildlife Victoria and hang around afterward for a Q&A with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee. Make it a date.

04.01.2022 Uncle Colin Hunter Junior is a proud Wurundjeri man, whose traditional lands extend from inner city Melbourne; south to the Mordialloc Creek; west to the Werribee River and east to Mount Baw Baw. Uncle Colin Hunter is the first Traditional Owner in Victoria to be employed on country in local government, and has worked at Yarra City Council managing their Aboriginal Partnership Policy for the past 7 years. Uncle Colin is a Wurundjeri Elder, and has been so for almost 9 years.... He has sat on Wurundjeri Councils Committee of Management for about the same length of time. Be Welcomed to Country by Uncle Colin at the TREES multi-sensory exhibition opening 6-9pm next Thursday.

04.01.2022 Be like these indoor plants, living in quarantine and in social distance from other plants and forests.

03.01.2022 The Social Lives of Trees panel on Saturday at 2pm with Tree Projects Stephen Watson, more-than-human geographer Dr. Catherine Phillips and socio-ecological anthropologist Monica Minnegal is being hosted by TERRAIN director @cristinapoleone. Lets talk about trees..