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sand with stick and barricades within it

Program Sydney Design Week 2023 Material Cultures

Pavilion of Sand

Name: Pavilion of Sand
Start: 2023-09-16T04:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-09-16T05:30:00.000Z
Location: UTS Gallery Building 6

Panel

Ended 16 Sept 2023

UTS Gallery Building 6

This panel discussion features the collaborators of Pavilion of Sand, a design project created in 2022 in Wheeler Place, Newcastle, led by Awabakal architect Shellie Smith alongside Wiradjuri artist Joel Sherwood Spring, Barkindji Malyangapa artist Jasmine Craciun and Future Method founder Genevieve Murray.

The panellists will discuss how they reimagined Wheeler Place as it was before it became a paved colonial grid – a landscape of sand once moved by wind, tides and floods. During New Annual Festival 2022, sand was returned to the heart of the city as structure, ballast, shelter and seating for a pavilion that celebrated stories and cultural practices of Awabakal and Worrimi people. This included a program of dance, performance, native food workshops and language workshops.

‘The pavilion and its shade cloth roof create an almost ghostly, transient version of what was once here and who was using this land before us, bringing the past and present together in one place’

Jasmine Craciun

Speakers

‘Sand, which characterises this coastline up into Worimi Country on the opposite shore heading north, has long been a material with its liquid and subtle and constant movement that acts as a mediating force’

Shellie Smith and Genevieve Murray