https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:33:32 +0000 https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work en https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/Index Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:33:28 +0000 Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/Index https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/Plant-Nation-1 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:33:29 +0000 Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/Plant-Nation-1 Plant Nation Biodegradable plastic, plant seeds, felt, timber dowel, galvanised fitttings. Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, commissioned by Ineke Dane at UAP.Flags mark territory. The border, the nation state, land, real estate.Plants consider territory in a fundamentally different way. Plants claim land with their bodies, their occupations are not reliant on fences, on guards, on checkpoints. The borders of the plant nation are in constant motion. The plant nation is a commonwealth, a federation, an empire made of many nations, yet unlike our human nations its various nationalities, its species-beings, do not require exclusive control of land and territory. Rather the nations overlap, and are interwoven. <img width="2448" height="3264" width_o="2448" height_o="3264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c46d90c876f7531f4b9994ad5fae1285bc504460414a7e528d3cb3ce98ad4a6d/IMG_7352.jpg" data-mid="189149552" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c46d90c876f7531f4b9994ad5fae1285bc504460414a7e528d3cb3ce98ad4a6d/IMG_7352.jpg" /> The plant nation is a self governing collective. Its laws too are inseparable from the bodies of its citizens. The plant body then becomes the only marker of territory. The citizen is the border. The nation is composed not of territory but of inhabitation. The plant nation has alway existed. We have built our nations upon its territory. It continues to exist. It outlasts and outlive human nations, human empires. The plant nation will outlive us as well.Like a rhizome, a sleeping tuber, the plant nation continues underground. It is a quiet nation, it makes no threats. Its diplomacy is gentle but ruthless. Slowly but steadily creeping up through the cracks.The flag is a human marker of territory, of nationhood, of the authority of a particular state and its specific set of laws. What would the flag of the plant nation signify, how would it operate?The work Plant Nation plays with ideas and artefacts of nationhood. It builds a future-ruin on which to hoist the flags of the Plant Nation. Unlike human flags the flag of the plant nation is fragile and impermanent, made of biodegradable plastic. Yet it contains within its fabric the seeds of its expansion. The flag is the nation is the citizens. All will rot and grow together.Curiously the flags can only have been made by human hands, but who are these people who work for the glory of a non-human empire? Who serve a nation of others? It is a strange notion, yet considering our utter dependence on the plant world for our survival, perhaps not so strange after all.Through taking seriously the playful idea of a plant nation state, the work invites us to reconsider our relationship not only between humans and plants, but also between humans and the forms in which we organise and regulate our collective identities. Botanica 2019, BAD festival <img width="2448" height="3264" width_o="2448" height_o="3264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c46d90c876f7531f4b9994ad5fae1285bc504460414a7e528d3cb3ce98ad4a6d/IMG_7352.jpg" data-mid="189149552" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c46d90c876f7531f4b9994ad5fae1285bc504460414a7e528d3cb3ce98ad4a6d/IMG_7352.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1069" width_o="1080" height_o="1069" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/899d0a33a704ed2d7692bb66e198f26eb1fb3a7cd2a82fbecacc26be0c1d1ad9/IMG_1317.JPG" data-mid="189149551" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/899d0a33a704ed2d7692bb66e198f26eb1fb3a7cd2a82fbecacc26be0c1d1ad9/IMG_1317.JPG" /> <img width="1080" height="1069" width_o="1080" height_o="1069" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6875e0e9c1bd3d62ea61a4298fb5d23ad660713b09592da1e11b2cde7beb1e98/IMG_1313.JPG" data-mid="189149561" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6875e0e9c1bd3d62ea61a4298fb5d23ad660713b09592da1e11b2cde7beb1e98/IMG_1313.JPG" /><img width="1024" height="1820" width_o="1024" height_o="1820" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15e86c32727e0c66035bd03df6de86ebefeac5d1bc4720dc79f8497030d765bd/IMG_3478.JPG" data-mid="189149563" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15e86c32727e0c66035bd03df6de86ebefeac5d1bc4720dc79f8497030d765bd/IMG_3478.JPG" /> <img width="2448" height="3264" width_o="2448" height_o="3264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e8771dccfe0ceb98a4df00f9a696285fa9881c46aba667f51c1a9d7826683a2/-.JPG" data-mid="189149560" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e8771dccfe0ceb98a4df00f9a696285fa9881c46aba667f51c1a9d7826683a2/-.JPG" /><img width="3023" height="3023" width_o="3023" height_o="3023" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f3f7d0c44185255ae61dc67bc859698a826ac9e571d993623b58a92e0e1582b/IMG_1434.JPG" data-mid="189149564" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f3f7d0c44185255ae61dc67bc859698a826ac9e571d993623b58a92e0e1582b/IMG_1434.JPG" /><img width="868" height="868" width_o="868" height_o="868" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c66e996f75f712901f581ec8979ab9d4ee2add22e02f5281ad5c613aec67788/IMG-3999.jpg" data-mid="189149488" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/868/i/5c66e996f75f712901f581ec8979ab9d4ee2add22e02f5281ad5c613aec67788/IMG-3999.jpg" /> 24–09–2024 https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/Memory-Vessel-2 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:33:29 +0000 Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/Memory-Vessel-2 Memory Vessel Heidi Axelsen, Hugo Moline, Jamie Eastwood and Dean Kelly Concrete, stone, shell, glassEach form 3.5 L x &nbsp;1 W x 1.4 H (m) approxClient: Westmead Hospital RedevelopmentArts consultant: HARCProject management: Multiplex. <img width="1539" height="1701" width_o="1539" height_o="1701" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e0ba7271d86819231e04ccfdf7e1f1cc24d3a9cae49d988425804300d973640/gallery_image-163.jpg" data-mid="248571293" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e0ba7271d86819231e04ccfdf7e1f1cc24d3a9cae49d988425804300d973640/gallery_image-163.jpg" />The starting point for Memory Vessel is the Nawi, the predominant form of watercraft transport throughout the harbour, rivers and creeks used by the people of Greater Sydney. For this project a set of Nawi were made again in the same way they always have been, using bark of the gum tree, the same tree whose leaves are used in the ceremonial smoking pit nearby.The bark nawi became the form-work for to cast with a strata of tinted concrete with embedded stones, pebbles, shells and glass, reminiscent of the local geological digs in Westmead. This project was commissioned by HARC and Westmead Hospital Redevelopment Project. <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/193149ab2bc86a4efd1d236507b547a273a45cbc8249c76d43195a469fcfcea2/70165274_1138422509686423_8382860384570179584_o.jpg" data-mid="248571294" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/193149ab2bc86a4efd1d236507b547a273a45cbc8249c76d43195a469fcfcea2/70165274_1138422509686423_8382860384570179584_o.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0824d3843964952d037e63a95472046d5efad0fef437b73c336c7dc3234f06fc/F376348D-BA5A-4D94-A259-C0F4E155D152-977-00000056464B2C64-1.jpg" data-mid="248571298" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0824d3843964952d037e63a95472046d5efad0fef437b73c336c7dc3234f06fc/F376348D-BA5A-4D94-A259-C0F4E155D152-977-00000056464B2C64-1.jpg" /><img width="1845" height="1230" width_o="1845" height_o="1230" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a52f1239a2cbaeff39fbe403c46b4fd45b815a074f22424b026b04ff0509ec14/IMG_1663.JPG" data-mid="248571296" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a52f1239a2cbaeff39fbe403c46b4fd45b815a074f22424b026b04ff0509ec14/IMG_1663.JPG" /> <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b175728c4aadec2b189c195d7c82a2cfaebb34dc1daf0f58af4092d3e3000086/66A2D3AD-0E41-4590-9520-EA8E69812F37.jpg" data-mid="248571297" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b175728c4aadec2b189c195d7c82a2cfaebb34dc1daf0f58af4092d3e3000086/66A2D3AD-0E41-4590-9520-EA8E69812F37.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/694ccdbe32bc023ae35b8517993e08098f8a9ad2ae1d71a25a070c1ac7170465/69A24D16-0D9B-42BE-91D8-F2EE178848BE-977-00000056D3102BAB.jpg" data-mid="248571295" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/694ccdbe32bc023ae35b8517993e08098f8a9ad2ae1d71a25a070c1ac7170465/69A24D16-0D9B-42BE-91D8-F2EE178848BE-977-00000056D3102BAB.jpg" /> 24–09–2024 https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/Dance-of-the-Remediators Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:33:30 +0000 Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/Dance-of-the-Remediators The Dance of the Remediators Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline Coal, flannelette bed sheets, reclaimed timber, cotton cord, prints on cotton rag, collage, audio narrative. The Lock Up Gallery, Newcastle <img width="1740" height="921" width_o="1740" height_o="921" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23886fb0c813aa0ec3c9fe52036131ced8a2cf91861ad6a7c4cffe2275243dc5/Film_still_Dance_of_Remediators_HeidiAxelsen_HugoMoline.jpg" data-mid="248571339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23886fb0c813aa0ec3c9fe52036131ced8a2cf91861ad6a7c4cffe2275243dc5/Film_still_Dance_of_Remediators_HeidiAxelsen_HugoMoline.jpg" />One day, the children disappeared. An entire city of empty beds. Each child had left a note: ‘gone underground – stay safe’. Their bedsheets were gone too…The Dance of the Remediators is an archive of a possible future; a materialised dream sequence of people being called into action by coal’s humble living relatives. A base-camp is constructed for a revolution of intimacy, patience and vunerability. An expedition is planned to uncover dark-hard-coal’s ancestral softness. By recalling coal’s long photosynthetic memory, can we salvage the future?Here, at the edge of climate calamity, the domestic-left-over, the soft-and-slow, the fragile and care-full are made mighty. This work prototypes earnest and absurd devices, gentle megastructures and everyday actions, for remaking the world through care, play, wonder and hope.Download exhibition essay by Jess Scully <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d96de5c6a78c209c726ab9b5f4f5b0107a9797b6ba9da677b9ab9456edd791dd/HeidiAxelsen_HugoMoline_2023.jpg" data-mid="248571301" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d96de5c6a78c209c726ab9b5f4f5b0107a9797b6ba9da677b9ab9456edd791dd/HeidiAxelsen_HugoMoline_2023.jpg" /><img width="1350" height="900" width_o="1350" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7dd0e3dc1571a831e00629120ed924b691ac0347e843c5b5f74ea68f0990f2f/IMG_3264.jpg" data-mid="248571341" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7dd0e3dc1571a831e00629120ed924b691ac0347e843c5b5f74ea68f0990f2f/IMG_3264.jpg" /> <img width="1350" height="900" width_o="1350" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/267612dcb1a31d70d1d0a0022a9b2bd7e1c40deaa8ad7069a371d1e6b5b5f43f/IMG_3277.jpg" data-mid="248571362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/267612dcb1a31d70d1d0a0022a9b2bd7e1c40deaa8ad7069a371d1e6b5b5f43f/IMG_3277.jpg" /> <img width="1350" height="900" width_o="1350" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53e4c404dc9e882fb908363a977101e0e6c3ca99a8583e4bb0781f9d995fb4f0/IMG_3241.jpg" data-mid="248571340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53e4c404dc9e882fb908363a977101e0e6c3ca99a8583e4bb0781f9d995fb4f0/IMG_3241.jpg" /> 24–09–2024 https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/The-Observatory-1 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:33:31 +0000 Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/The-Observatory-1 The Observatory Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline Marine plywood, galvanised plate steel, laminated glass, storm glass solution. Cabarita, Parramatta River, Sydney <img width="1000" height="750" width_o="1000" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6214a0d688dab2b5754a94e518441e2b24ae72410f8c0da4a80488a9eba7ffd5/StormGlass.jpg" data-mid="248571614" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6214a0d688dab2b5754a94e518441e2b24ae72410f8c0da4a80488a9eba7ffd5/StormGlass.jpg" />Sited on the shores of the Parramatta River at Cabarita, The Observatory comprises three sculptural devices for observing and interacting with changes in the weather. Inspired by the former use of the site as a 19th century ‘pleasure garden’ and research into pre-industrial meteorological devices, each of the three devices allows you to ‘read’ a particular aspect of the weather and find links between time, wind, solar position and atmospheric variation.The Storm-Glass Hut frames a 18th century glass-enclosed solution which forms crystals of varying forms and densities depending on the atmospheric pressure. The Wind-Flute-Sundial tracks the progress of the sun while producing different frequencies depending on the direction of the wind. The Anemometer-Chaise provides a simple gauge of wind speed from repurposed teacups as well as a comfortable place to rest and observe. <img width="2999" height="2249" width_o="2999" height_o="2249" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b056dc14c2f8c50f21f202f2e2e52e16f92dee4beb861b66fefaa6053a7086b1/The-Observatory-1.jpg" data-mid="248571611" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b056dc14c2f8c50f21f202f2e2e52e16f92dee4beb861b66fefaa6053a7086b1/The-Observatory-1.jpg" /><img width="627" height="476" width_o="627" height_o="476" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6db5f8a0061e3ed1e251544f2d6b9650975a3ba9a8e7dac8f9cc0b50189bfd03/storm-glass_16_o.jpg" data-mid="248571609" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/627/i/6db5f8a0061e3ed1e251544f2d6b9650975a3ba9a8e7dac8f9cc0b50189bfd03/storm-glass_16_o.jpg" /><img width="1000" height="1339" width_o="1000" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/742f05596c52bd915862765d5ea3717d9f12e371fde99c988c4502e9883d578c/StormGlassHutInstallation.jpg" data-mid="248571612" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/742f05596c52bd915862765d5ea3717d9f12e371fde99c988c4502e9883d578c/StormGlassHutInstallation.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1333" width_o="1000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cb5cf0c47077f899c02ddde66edb65ea6ac6e2c3b3ac706e978e5032d7932f8/StormGlassHut.jpg" data-mid="248571608" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2cb5cf0c47077f899c02ddde66edb65ea6ac6e2c3b3ac706e978e5032d7932f8/StormGlassHut.jpg" /><img width="900" height="650" width_o="900" height_o="650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ebd3ba2156ce8cc933b5abaf56ab419b179a948f0e4346a597afc83007ba2dc/The-Observatory3.jpg" data-mid="248571610" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/9ebd3ba2156ce8cc933b5abaf56ab419b179a948f0e4346a597afc83007ba2dc/The-Observatory3.jpg" /> 24–09–2024 https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/DRAWNONWARD Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:33:31 +0000 Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/DRAWNONWARD DRAWNONWARD Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline Plant seeds, earth, bags, rope, felt, biodegradable plastic. Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. Commissioned as part of Critical Mass: The Art of Planetary Health at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre curated by Sabrina Roesner. <img width="3543" height="2410" width_o="3543" height_o="2410" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7c12b16098715a1c8628a0702b87eeffff2daa1028b701847fd1f8e658ad435/201014_critical-mass_106.JPG" data-mid="248571376" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7c12b16098715a1c8628a0702b87eeffff2daa1028b701847fd1f8e658ad435/201014_critical-mass_106.JPG" />DRAWNONWARD. Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline. Felt, muslin, fennel seeds, rope and dirt. Image by Silversalt photography. Speaking as a species, we are certainly having some problems relating to the Earth. Perhaps this might be a good time to consider some other ways to relate with her? For a while now we have felt the need to mark out bits of the Earth as belonging to me or you or us or them. Flags become symbols of this humanised territory, from real-estate to the nation-state, they stake a claim of permanent possession. Plants consider territory in a very different way. Plants claim land with their bodies alone. They do not own, they just reside. Unlike ours these claims do not require exclusivity. Rather their nations overlap, are interwoven and concurrent. Learning from the plants we would like to propose more soluble forms ownership. If you are here, its yours for the moment you are here (together with whoever else is here of course).In DRAWNONWARD ten flags mark out a small territory, a little United Nations of dirtbags. Unlike the flags of human nations these flags are designed to decompose. Their substance aiding the growth of the seeds which they contain. The seeds have been gathered from roadside weeds, species which claim leftover terrain, species which will be the first to take over after our departure.Like the palendrome, drawn onward: in order to move forward we need to constantly return. ------------ Fairley, G. (2020, October 5). Artists provide reflections on eco-anxiety. ArtsHub. Collective conversations for change ‘Whether social activists or traditional owners, these artists provide reflections on eco-anxiety, yet remain hopeful for the future state of the world,’ Roesner said. Through creative responses, these artists examine the roles that traditional knowledge, technology, science and human ingenuity can, and must, play in stabilising our environment and developing a more equitable society, she continued. Take, for example, the work of locally-based Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline, who’s installation DRAWNONWARD (2020) demarcates a small territory of white flags in the gallery, what Axelsen describes as, ‘a little United Nations of dirtbags.’ It is a ‘comment on our constant need to claim and own the land we live on,’ she continued. ‘[But] unlike the flags of human nations these flags are designed to decompose.’ The seeds they hold within ‘have been gathered from roadside weeds, species which claim leftover terrain, species which will be the first to take over after our departure.’ She told ArtsHub: ‘On the surface, these white flags could be perceived as gestures of surrender, resigned to the failure of humanity and giving way to life beyond our own… If we are going to start anywhere, first of all we need to listen to the experts; the scientists and the Indigenous people who study and deeply understand natures systems.’ Nature has been quietly knocking at our door for some time and is now getting impatient. Heidi Axelsen, artist. Hugo Moline, who collaborates with Axelsen, added: ‘The only way we can get out of the mess we are in, towards something better, is to realise how connected we all already are, how dependent we are on each other.That is what we like to do in our practice. To consider other ways we could arrange the world, that serve to highlight contradictions in the way we organise it now. These scenarios, such as people devoting their lives to serve plants, seem on the surface a bit ridiculous, but considering how important plants are for our survival, maybe not so ridiculous after all?’ Moline said. <img width="3543" height="2362" width_o="3543" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7dbac8e04b6c0ecb87a6183d0e545ef4e854f1227bd0f534cc709fe0e4e81b30/201014_critical-mass_110.JPG" data-mid="248571379" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7dbac8e04b6c0ecb87a6183d0e545ef4e854f1227bd0f534cc709fe0e4e81b30/201014_critical-mass_110.JPG" /><img width="3543" height="2374" width_o="3543" height_o="2374" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b34271330d737cb37f88280be153a2aaf7fe7b04c02821bf3e7d04a68070477/201014_critical-mass_115.JPG" data-mid="251756828" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b34271330d737cb37f88280be153a2aaf7fe7b04c02821bf3e7d04a68070477/201014_critical-mass_115.JPG" /> <img width="3543" height="2362" width_o="3543" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d971dac68df509348efae3e21fde1fe53c32c02aaf2655285bf556ceb98ce17c/201014_critical-mass_103.JPG" data-mid="248571381" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d971dac68df509348efae3e21fde1fe53c32c02aaf2655285bf556ceb98ce17c/201014_critical-mass_103.JPG" /><img width="3125" height="1975" width_o="3125" height_o="1975" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d33aef5b9c068d38be3729a53c7b31f03e73fa70235db0bd85cd1d546d277462/201014_critical-mass_114.jpg" data-mid="248571380" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d33aef5b9c068d38be3729a53c7b31f03e73fa70235db0bd85cd1d546d277462/201014_critical-mass_114.jpg" /> 24–09–2024 https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/Cubbyopolis-1 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:33:30 +0000 Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/Cubbyopolis-1 Cubbyopolis Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline Timber dowel and blocks, bed sheets, cotton rope, pegsWoW Festival, Casula Powerhouse <img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/071c06db249296b7243cbc00787e4eb5ca4dfdeb8d4dac8f907f2b091d2ffd4f/IMG_2564.JPG" data-mid="248571394" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/071c06db249296b7243cbc00787e4eb5ca4dfdeb8d4dac8f907f2b091d2ffd4f/IMG_2564.JPG" />A soft world of floating houses, soaring towers, drifting passageways and hidden spaces for kids to explore, construct and make their own. From a sea of household linen, a new city will rise within the Turbine Hall over the four days of the 2017 WoW Festival: a city called Cubbyopolis.At a time when finding a home in the city is getting beyond the reach of many, Cubbyopolis finds inspiration in children’s natural ability to build shared places from whatever is at hand. In Cubbyopolis kids are invited to become bed-sheet architects, transforming the domestic into the fantastic and create an entire city just from free-play.Cubbyopolis is an ever-evolving environment for kid’s play, imagination, optimism and natural creativity to take flight - a place where we really can build castles in the sky. <img width="2404" height="1920" width_o="2404" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4095317d9b69cef14d7f945efd5243721377adf5eaf538b178500d6a4b33cf19/IMG_9756.JPG" data-mid="248571401" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4095317d9b69cef14d7f945efd5243721377adf5eaf538b178500d6a4b33cf19/IMG_9756.JPG" /><img width="1500" height="1298" width_o="1500" height_o="1298" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96833f417abb195d877badd0f41d6ab7de0f6f6bc523c91e47b274cb7ec05359/Cubbyopolis2.jpg" data-mid="248571399" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96833f417abb195d877badd0f41d6ab7de0f6f6bc523c91e47b274cb7ec05359/Cubbyopolis2.jpg" /><img width="1000" height="1333" width_o="1000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5212e1f655b84886cd2b149ea6a7b945d034ad6f733803cb959eafd30d91abe7/IMG_2663.jpg" data-mid="248571397" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5212e1f655b84886cd2b149ea6a7b945d034ad6f733803cb959eafd30d91abe7/IMG_2663.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1321" width_o="1500" height_o="1321" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56cdf355ab1447a5246337398f5d97d777b48f23a97e4d0fa3f33ea167659879/IMG_2587.jpg" data-mid="248571402" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56cdf355ab1447a5246337398f5d97d777b48f23a97e4d0fa3f33ea167659879/IMG_2587.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="1165" width_o="1500" height_o="1165" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16d55d9be635d14a90a3bce11ed16247f39dadbdbb8d53ccf1fb16b95b3725b3/IMG_2608.jpg" data-mid="248571398" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16d55d9be635d14a90a3bce11ed16247f39dadbdbb8d53ccf1fb16b95b3725b3/IMG_2608.jpg" /> 24–09–2024 https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/The-Visitors-1 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:33:30 +0000 Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/The-Visitors-1 The Visitors: An exercise in plant agency. Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline Cypress &amp; gum trees, biodegradable plastic, soil, plant seeds, steel, leather, construction scrim, video. MAMA Albury and Blue Mountains City Art Gallery. <img width="5612" height="3675" width_o="5612" height_o="3675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e946f32a2fd0a03d6d13cf8877de1e746f9d0804ab77c4880f87565fe7c9ac8/TheVisitors_HeidiAxelsenHugoMoline.jpg" data-mid="248571414" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e946f32a2fd0a03d6d13cf8877de1e746f9d0804ab77c4880f87565fe7c9ac8/TheVisitors_HeidiAxelsenHugoMoline.jpg" />What if we acted altruistically for the benefits of the plant world? What would our world look like? This exhibition explores what can of devices humans would need and how humans may behave differently if they were to become plant agents. Plants mostly seem to recede into the background, the base and stage for the lives of faster moving creatures like us. Yet we depend entirely and absolutely on the lives and labours of the plant world. We are here because they are here. If we are their guests, we are rather inconsiderate ones. We farm them, we garden them, we prune and transplant them. We harvest them and process them. We eat them and wear them. We use their bodies to house ourselves. Like unwanted visitors we depend much on our hosts to support our endeavours and we take much more than we return.Read review of The Visitors by Running Dog by Carolyn Burns:“There’s a charming absurdity to many of the individual pieces that make up Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline’s The Visitors, a deceptively simple installation on eco futurist themes. There’s footage of a sapling being carried along a country road in a backpack like an infant in a baby carrier, a porous net veil that enables exhaled carbon dioxide to be shared between one person and a specific plant, and an elaborately engineered copper funnel for collecting urine to water the roots of trees.”We must learn not just how to collaborate but how to conspire with plants…we need to tap onto their desire for forms of life that are not for us. We must reconstitute what Anna Tsing (2015) might call a planet fit for “collaborative survival”. If not, their undoing will truly be our undoing. Natasha Meyers (2017) ‘Photosynthetic Mattering: Rooting into the Planthroposcene‘ in Moving Plants, edited by Line Marie Thorsen, Rønnebæksholm Press: 123-129.Link.https://www.mamalbury.com.au/the-visitors <img width="2000" height="1377" width_o="2000" height_o="1377" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/722b976b14dfbe07795a12ac5dbf4dffc17becfefa48b0097b5a25f7773f5f7c/171209_Visitors_039.jpg" data-mid="248571411" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/722b976b14dfbe07795a12ac5dbf4dffc17becfefa48b0097b5a25f7773f5f7c/171209_Visitors_039.jpg" /><img width="6874" height="9921" width_o="6874" height_o="9921" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/198b597152fcbfb13076e0be64b74685c812229b0ce05b8c3dc86f393c2951bf/visitors-manual_front.jpg" data-mid="248571413" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/198b597152fcbfb13076e0be64b74685c812229b0ce05b8c3dc86f393c2951bf/visitors-manual_front.jpg" /><img width="1561" height="2208" width_o="1561" height_o="2208" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d53e387eb6af7b27bdc22b91a926be41771accb813de82739446a8913e4d4eec/IMG-1436.JPG" data-mid="248571408" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d53e387eb6af7b27bdc22b91a926be41771accb813de82739446a8913e4d4eec/IMG-1436.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94c8b9ce742628fb53880f5f808af7e40c3303f3b1ffd6abd3fb5f0b790f0679/The-Visitors_shoes2.jpg" data-mid="248571410" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94c8b9ce742628fb53880f5f808af7e40c3303f3b1ffd6abd3fb5f0b790f0679/The-Visitors_shoes2.jpg" /><img width="1518" height="1184" width_o="1518" height_o="1184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cbccc28b35302278cdd6da2d5c9ed4925725e37846495bcb84635b7ccc11c50/IMG_8996.JPG" data-mid="248571412" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8cbccc28b35302278cdd6da2d5c9ed4925725e37846495bcb84635b7ccc11c50/IMG_8996.JPG" /><img width="2208" height="1472" width_o="2208" height_o="1472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28d7cd1c60db4d76d38b08564b610061467aa9833e43c75ebb247299ba1095ff/Plant-Nation-flag.jpg" data-mid="248571409" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28d7cd1c60db4d76d38b08564b610061467aa9833e43c75ebb247299ba1095ff/Plant-Nation-flag.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/472e7726c0c1da96b73f95c505e94a329903b6e60e7a9271f551326ca8679c07/The-Visitors_hood.jpg" data-mid="248571415" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/472e7726c0c1da96b73f95c505e94a329903b6e60e7a9271f551326ca8679c07/The-Visitors_hood.jpg" /> 24–09–2024 https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/Owner-Occupy-1 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:33:31 +0000 Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/Owner-Occupy-1 Owner Occupy Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline Tasmanian oak dowel, galvanised pipe fittings, copper saddles, cotton duck fabric.Minimum dimensions of a dwelling machine: 1.2 L x 1.2 W x 3.2 H (m)Dimensions of map: 5.7 L x 3.3 W (m) Sherman Contemporay Art Foundation <img width="3543" height="2362" width_o="3543" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0363f09d5369de1e199e9726a0052e6bc1daa3f29b9398e9c45ac28d5ae8251/SCAF_OwnerOccupy_7704.jpg" data-mid="248571441" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0363f09d5369de1e199e9726a0052e6bc1daa3f29b9398e9c45ac28d5ae8251/SCAF_OwnerOccupy_7704.jpg" />Owner Occupy questions the basic relationship between dwelling and ownership in contemporary Sydney. The project looks at the legal fiction of empty land on which all of contemporary Sydney’s property ownership is based.The dwelling-machine is the architecture for this possible alternative Sydney. The basic premise of the dwelling-machines is that who ever occupies them, owns them. The vulnerability of the structures resists ownership of space by anyone other than those who inhabit it at that given time. Behind the structures a map of Greater Sydney looms. Seen from the perspective of this new colonial movement it is a map of land open for occupation. As with the early colonial maps all reference to prior occupation has been erased. Here only the real estate tag lines remain.The dwelling-machines, a kind of operable vehicle for personal space and self expression, are a direct representation of current modes of extreme individualism. Within this system however, the limited size and extreme operability of the units open new opportunities for collaboration, sharing and conviviality. Here the lightness and optimism of real estate language and interior design aesthetics are repurposed to sell a very different idea: the end of real estate itself.Link.http://sherman-scaf.org.au/exhibition/hugo-moline-and-heidi-axelsen-owner-occupy/Catalogue. 2015 Fugitive Structures Catalogue <img width="1000" height="717" width_o="1000" height_o="717" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d695c515595ec168cb841a26c5c63d3a59188e28a16cc90ab9baedc92e69c1d4/OO_2-cropped.jpg" data-mid="248571434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d695c515595ec168cb841a26c5c63d3a59188e28a16cc90ab9baedc92e69c1d4/OO_2-cropped.jpg" />&nbsp;<img width="1000" height="1333" width_o="1000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/349114e83e0e43ace3bbc9c072cd892e206cffad1fbbc8b6d7f83914c5f86eb5/knoll.jpg" data-mid="248571431" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/349114e83e0e43ace3bbc9c072cd892e206cffad1fbbc8b6d7f83914c5f86eb5/knoll.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74d41708f28b8c798c2e4e8e00389f4fcf4bf8773ed8537f837f65549c12c679/SCAF_OwnerOccupy_7756.jpg" data-mid="248571430" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74d41708f28b8c798c2e4e8e00389f4fcf4bf8773ed8537f837f65549c12c679/SCAF_OwnerOccupy_7756.jpg" /><img width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b80fe87c18c6330c989b4cbc400924482721e98b976938a764ce5f251f90064/SCAF_OwnerOccupy_7741.jpg" data-mid="248571429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b80fe87c18c6330c989b4cbc400924482721e98b976938a764ce5f251f90064/SCAF_OwnerOccupy_7741.jpg" /><img width="1000" height="1333" width_o="1000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a94155ea422c8c1e9e61e0f7d1193b97edd4e23d5ef67a0e027a40f82fc089e7/IMG_6970.jpg" data-mid="248571426" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a94155ea422c8c1e9e61e0f7d1193b97edd4e23d5ef67a0e027a40f82fc089e7/IMG_6970.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ff9fd6b5fc8704648f94aac275a07e3f10fcd7be1a8f59d42f218b2330724a5/SCAF_OwnerOccupy_7749.jpg" data-mid="248571428" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ff9fd6b5fc8704648f94aac275a07e3f10fcd7be1a8f59d42f218b2330724a5/SCAF_OwnerOccupy_7749.jpg" /><img width="1000" height="915" width_o="1000" height_o="915" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f08b25f5ab4c98139e4daa0d69befb1c4a9b9147bf093290dae453c50e79eef1/SCAF_OwnerOccupy_7761.jpg" data-mid="248571427" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f08b25f5ab4c98139e4daa0d69befb1c4a9b9147bf093290dae453c50e79eef1/SCAF_OwnerOccupy_7761.jpg" /> 24–09–2024 https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/2000-Waraji-200-Feet-1 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:33:32 +0000 Heidi Axelsen + Hugo Moline https://heidiaxelsen-hugomoline.work/2000-Waraji-200-Feet-1 2000 Waraji 200 Feet Heidi Axelsen, Nathan Hawkes, Hugo MolineEtched copper plates, steel, cotton rope, single edition book printed on snow bleached mulberry paper. 2.9 L x 2.3 W x 3.4 H (m)Echigo Tsumari Art Feild, &nbsp;Niigata, Japan <img width="3436" height="2290" width_o="3436" height_o="2290" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3802a57c5d32fbf6f914d3dec56ecf716375c688d066871aa27e0072b18549a4/2000Waraji200Feet_1.jpg" data-mid="248571485" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3802a57c5d32fbf6f914d3dec56ecf716375c688d066871aa27e0072b18549a4/2000Waraji200Feet_1.jpg" />2000 Waraji 200 Feet is a gathering of impressions which find form in both a hand-crafted book and a hut in the landscape. Each copper shingle that forms the roof and the walls of the hut is cut into the shape of a Waraji sandal and hand-tied into the structure. Local people were invited to make an etching of their own everyday footwear on 200 of the 2000 copper shingles. The etched shingle were printed on snow-bleached mulberry paper and bound as a book which was displayed within the hut for the hot summer season. The impression of the shoes of the contemporary community upon the form of the ancient Waraji explores the tensions between the products and influence of a global culture and the preservation of a unique, local cultural heritage. This work was commissioned by 2015 Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial and the outcome of artist in residency at Australia House from 2013-2105. Link. http://www.echigo-tsumari.jp/eng/artwork/2000_waraji_200_feetBlog: http://www.2013-2015airaustraliahouse.netCatalogue.Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2015 Catalogue <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7dd13acf51429ff22304e718c29e8fff8700243b750f79341b54d12fde9b6b92/2000Waraji200Feet_4.jpg" data-mid="248571484" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7dd13acf51429ff22304e718c29e8fff8700243b750f79341b54d12fde9b6b92/2000Waraji200Feet_4.jpg" /><img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ab7fdf308ec6ecc116e22836a4a04113b32ab9383ae641ebbef79a017c3b98f/P1200235.jpg" data-mid="248571488" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ab7fdf308ec6ecc116e22836a4a04113b32ab9383ae641ebbef79a017c3b98f/P1200235.jpg" /><img width="3504" height="2336" width_o="3504" height_o="2336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b5bbb4eabcd2d29c9b83fca79bd93deef12b4708aa1b75d6a26b68c9076d1b9/IMG_5165.jpg" data-mid="248571483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b5bbb4eabcd2d29c9b83fca79bd93deef12b4708aa1b75d6a26b68c9076d1b9/IMG_5165.jpg" /> <img width="2448" height="3264" width_o="2448" height_o="3264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0685591c0e2424c705db685c1a0417dfdf79b162544ddc28f59510d6917d9f75/IMG_6287.jpg" data-mid="248571489" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0685591c0e2424c705db685c1a0417dfdf79b162544ddc28f59510d6917d9f75/IMG_6287.jpg" /><img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3425bda66fae2c7eebb35804d229b2888383c2e5b098f69dfe5212b5d1e1090b/P1200007.jpg" data-mid="248571486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3425bda66fae2c7eebb35804d229b2888383c2e5b098f69dfe5212b5d1e1090b/P1200007.jpg" /><img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/759458ab4e22511034b3432ea29eb9aae89c6bd4da53919fab382689d3848fa9/IMG_5317.jpg" data-mid="248571487" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/759458ab4e22511034b3432ea29eb9aae89c6bd4da53919fab382689d3848fa9/IMG_5317.jpg" /> 24–09–2024