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23.01.2022 Page 2 Take-Away Pamphlet: John Reid 'Solar System Walk-Out', 'Gaia Hypothesis' exhibition, Belconnen Arts Centre 2019
22.01.2022 You are invited to a Solar System Walk-Out this Sunday 15 February, 3.00 pm, Belconnen Arts Centre. Come along to protest the acceleration of coal minuing in Australia and, in particular, the mining of coal at Maules Creek, NSW. Please email [email protected] (email heading; 'walkout') if you can attend. The communal Walk-Out will be photographically documented for media release and international presentation at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, in April. See Invitation below and Media Release with more information at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3zoe1tu/MediaReleaseWALK-OUT.pdf
15.01.2022 Page 4 Take-Away Pamphlet: John Reid 'Solar System Walk-Out', 'Gaia Hypothesis' exhibition, Belconnen Arts Centre 2019
11.01.2022 Page 1 Take-Away Pamphlet: John Reid 'Solar System Walk-Out', 'Gaia Hypothesis' exhibition, Belconnen Arts Centre 2019
11.01.2022 Poster/Invitation: John Reid 'Solar System Walk-Out', 'Gaia Hypothesis' exhibition, Belconnen Arts Centre 2019
09.01.2022 ‘Walking the Solar System’ is the title of a visual artwork conceived by Australian artist John Reid. Initiated in 2000, the artwork has been intensively developed since 2011 and consists of an open-ended series of artist performances for photographic documentation and related creative texts. The artist performance consists of a Solar walk assuming a walking posture aesthetically composed in an inspirational location but at odds with gravity giving the impression of stridin...g into space. The Solar walk provides an opportunity to contemplate the reality of traversing the Solar System at approximately 1,800 km per minute relative to the Sun. The Solar walk concludes when the force of the Earth’s gravity collapses the walking pose. The walk is documented with video and still cameras for subsequent gallery exhibition and web posting. Creative text relating to the exhibited imagery is published electronically and as a take-away document from the gallery. The document also outlines how to safely undertake a Solar System walk; its purpose; contextual scientific references; and, on specific occasions, invites participation in a community ‘Walk-Out’ as a form of political protest. The primary intention of the artwork is to create scientifically informed aesthetic statements as catalysts for deep and recurring reflection about Earth as the only known planet capable of sustaining our humanity and the implications this has for how we influence the planet’s life sustaining ecosystems. A secondary intention is to encourage people to take a Solar walk as a means of appreciating the vast expanse of the Universe through a personal, aesthetic and introspective experience. By maintaining the Solar System walking pose for one minute, the casual Solar walker must first overcome a level of physical difficulty in order to consciously concentrate on travelling at approximately 1,800 km per minute relative to the Sun. Although the Solar walk is a confirming gesture of Solurban citizenship, it is principally a cultural reaffirmation that planet Earth is an isolated, life-sustaining enclave and ultimately precious for that reason. The Solar walker always comes home. The series draws on the findings of Earth climate science to advocate social and political change through the delivery of aesthetic experience (in this case, the perception by the viewer of quality relationships between visual forms composed by the artist to excite the intellect through an emotive pitch to the eye). The most recent Solar System walks have involved community participation in the form of a ‘Walk-Out’ to condemn Australian State and Federal Governments for the accelerated mining of coal and the withdrawal of funding from alternative energy research both of which have adverse implications for the Earth’s climate, its bio-diverse ecosystems and for the survival of the human species. See more
07.01.2022 Page 3 Take-Away Pamphlet: John Reid 'Solar System Walk-Out', 'Gaia Hypothesis' exhibition, Belconnen Arts Centre 2019
05.01.2022 Walking the Solar System for COP21, Oceanside CA USA October 2015
05.01.2022 The 'Solar System Walk-Out' (3.00 pm Sunday 15 February Belconnen Arts Centre) will enable the cosmosolitan community to gather and walk the Solar System in protest at the insanity and immorality of accelerated coal mining in Australia, especially the development of the Whitehaven Coal mine at Maules Creek, NSW, and the associated reduction in government support for alternate energy research. Join artist John Reid and exhibition curator Amanda Stuart for this protest Solar Wa...lk - a concerted, communal imagining of the Earth as a precious enclave within the vast expanse of the Universe. Assume a walking pose at odds with gravity and walk 1,800 km relative to the Sun in just one minute. Return as a confirmed Solurban citizen with a heightened appreciation of home. The Solar System Walk-Out is part of the 'Imaginarium' exhibition, curated by Amanda Stuart, currently showing at the Belconnen Arts Centre. The Solar System Walk-Out will be photographically documented for media distribution and international release at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, in April 2015.
04.01.2022 Walking the Solar System for COP21, Santa Ana Mountains, CA USA October 2015
02.01.2022 The Solar System Walk-Out as it happened. 34 solurban citizens walked-out into the Solar System (See below. Photograph: Marzena Wasikowska) from the grassy precincts of the Belconnen Arts Centre (BAC) on Sunday 15 February in protest at the acceleration of coal mining in Australia. The Solar System Walk-Out was the final stage of an artwork by John Reid titled, 'Imagine. Solar System Walk, Belconnen Ats Centre', which was included in the 'Imaginarium' exhibition curated by Amanda Stuart at the BAC (23 January - 15 February). The solar walkers comfortably completed a one-minute, 1,800 km trip relative to the Sun contemplating the vast expanse of the Universe.
01.01.2022 Three draft simulations for Solar Walk-Out this Sunday (See post below) in anticipation of flotillas of 60, 35 and 20 Solar Walkers. Everyone is invited to participate in the Solar System Walk-Out*. * Come to the Belconnen Arts Centre 3.00 pm Sunday. Dress in clothing suitable for lying on grass. Wear a hat.... The flotilla of Solar Walkers will be lying on the ground, each Solar Walker in a walking pose, arranged in formation. As Solar Walkers contemplate travelling at 1,800 km per minute relative to the Sun, enjoying the vast expanse of the Universe, documentation photographs will be taken. The event will be recorded on video. A documentary photograph will be presented at the 2015 European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, in April. See more
