Naarm / Melbourne based Artist Ana Tiquia is returning to Esperance to present her new work Seeder Futures created over Stage 1, October to November 2022, and Stage 2, March to April 2023. Read about Ana’s reflections of her time in Esperance here.
Ana Tiquia is an artist and futurist. Integrating participatory art, design and futures practice, Ana creates public interventions: works that invite audiences into dialogue with ‘the future’. She is interested in how practices and infrastructures make worlds. Ana’s work aims to seed diverse futures of data and technology, work and labour, and energy, material, and multispecies relations by intervening in everyday, workplace, and institutional practices.
Her new work Seeder Futures will be exhibited at the Esperance Museum, 16-19 November 2023, and at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) 25 November-18 February 2024. Seeder Futures is an artwork comprised of a digital collection of images and videos, collectively held by members of the community of Esperance and on a PC at AGWA. The work is inspired by the generosity of Esperance locals, and the practices of giving, sharing and volunteering of time, knowledge, skills and resources Ana witnessed during her stay in the Esperance community.
Ana held a Seeding Afternoon for community members to become a 'seeder' or community curator and custodian of the artwork. The artwork is a shared, synchronised folder, collectively hosted by Esperance community members and a PC at AGWA. This shared folder includes images of the collection alongside interviews with community members. Over tea and cake the files were seeded and distribution of this collection within the community has begun. Over the next months, our curators will co-host this work on their devices and PCs. Thank you so much to amazing community curators: Ally Tas, Brittany Norton, Brooke Elson, Jamie Coyle, Jen Ford, Katie Witt, Katie White, Krystal Obschonka, Marcia Leonard, Tammy Andrews, Sarsby Martin.
Seeder Futures Exhibition, Esperance Museum-Opening Night Wednesday 15 November 2023
Open to the public-Thursday 16 November - Sunday 19 November 1.30pm-4.30pm Museum admittance fee required
Rural Utopias Exhibition, Art Gallery of WA-Opening Night Friday 24 November 2023
Open to the public-Saturday 25 November - 18 February 2024.
Rural Utopias is a multi-year program of residencies and socially engaged art projects in regional and remote Western Australian communities. The program focuses on the idea of “Rural Utopias” and includes 11 artists from across Australia.
This project has been made possible through the generous support of the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the RISE: Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund - an Australian Government initiative, and the Cannery Art Centre. Spaced (International Art Space International Art Space Pty. Ltd.) is a leading arts organisation specialising in socially engaged art. Spaced was established in 1998 by a team of farmers and art professionals interested in bringing leading national and international artists into rural and remote communities.
Photo: Ana Tiquia outside the flat at the Cannery Arts Centre Photo taken by Sarsby Martin