Publication Details Hardcover with dust jacket, 160 x 240 mm, 500gm, 224 pages, 69 image plates. ISBN 9781922464422
Author and/or Editor name/s Texts: Brook Garru Andrew, Sissy Eileen Austin, Vanessa I. Cavanagh, Madeleine Collie, Sophie Cunningham, Charlotte Day, Brian Martin, Nick Modrzewski, Suzanne Simard. Editors: Charlotte Day, Melissa Ratliff
Author and/or Editor bio/s Charlotte Day is the director of Monash University Museum of Art. She has extensive curatorial and arts management experience having worked in contemporary art organisations including the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) and Gertrude Contemporary.
Melissa Ratliff is Curator Research at Monash University Museum of Art. She has worked independently and institutionally on exhibition, public programming, publication and editorial projects, including at the Biennale of Sydney (2015–18), Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg (2013–14), dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel (2010–12) and the 16th and 17th Biennale of Sydney (2007–10).
Year of Publication 2021
Publisher Co-published by Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne and Monash University Publishing, Melbourne
Abstract Produced to accompany the 2021 exhibition curated by Charlotte Day with Dr Brian Martin, Tree Story includes essays, artists’ writings and special projects that expand richly on the eponymous project’s ‘forest of ideas’. Tree Story connects to critical environmental issues, Indigenous ways of knowing and a recognition of trees as our Ancestors. A fully illustrated colour section features contributions from the thirty-three Australian and international participating artists, introducing projects ranging from 1970s environmental actions to experimental plant communication. Tree Story also includes newly commissioned and republished texts by Brook Garru Andrew, Sissy Eileen Austin, N’Arweet Professor Carolyn Briggs AM, Vanessa I. Cavanagh, Madeleine Collie, Sophie Cunningham, Brian Martin, Nick Modrzewski and Suzanne Simard, representing leading and emerging voices across visual arts, culture, activism, forest ecology and Indigenous land management. Together, the artists and writers reflect on the agency of trees, our entangled existence and times of climate emergency, asking: what can we learn from trees and the importance of Country?
Designed by Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen and featuring artists: Brook Garru Andrew, Yto Barrada, Berdaguer & Péjus, Joseph Beuys, Tania Bruguera, Hayley Panangka Coulthard, Nici Cumpston, Agnes Denes, Yanni Florence, Ceal Floyer, Nicole Foreshew, Henrik Håkansson, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, Beth Mbitjana Inkamala, Judith Pungarta Inkamala, Tim Johnson, Reena Saini Kallat, Peter Kennedy, Olga Kisseleva, Janet Laurence, MAIX Reserved Forest, Brian Martin, Kent Morris, Peter Mungkuri OAM, Optronic Kinetics, Uriel Orlow, Jill Orr, Katie Paterson, Ed Ruscha, Yasmin Smith, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Stelarc and Linda Tegg.
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