Saturday March 1, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
University of Queensland St LuciaDirections
Free
UQ Arts is excited to announce its inaugural BLOCK PARTY, a free community day filled with art, workshops, talks, tours and more across some of UQ St Lucia’s most fascinating museums. Join the UQ Art Museum, UQ Anthropology Museum, RD Milns Antiquities Museum and the Fryer Library as they open their doors for the public on Saturday March 1.
This all-day event will feature workshops, tours and talks across the museums, food trucks and drawing on the Art Museum Lawn, and exclusive performances by artists Alicia Frankovich and Nunukul Yuggera.
The BLOCK PARTY also celebrates the public opening of new exhibition These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature at the UQ Art Museum. This fascinating exhibition explores the relationship between humanity and nature on the molecular, the geological, the biological and social levels. Bringing together Australian and international artists it traverses choreography, sculptural installation, filmmaking, field research, tarot reading, photography, painting and virtual simulation.
Get out and about and discover something new at this all-ages day out. Check out the full schedule and register for activities that excite your curiosity here.
1: Photo by Joe Ruckli
2: Caitlin Franzmann recompose 2021, conversation, divination cards, interactive website. A part of Final Call exhibition, Mossy Log Garden, Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Gardens, Horizon Festival 2021. Photo by Timothy Birch
3: Alicia Frankovich Rich in World, Poor in World 2023. National Gallery of Victoria. Performers: LJ Connolly-Hiatt, Mara Galagher, Shelley Lasica, Shian Law, Enzo Nazario, Erin O’Rourke, Lana Šprajcer, Angelita Biscotti, Jesse Gall, Erin Hallyburton, Alexis Kanatsios, Daniel R Marks, Rajdeep Puri. Music: Igor Kłaczyński. Photo: Keelan O’Hehir. Courtesy of the artist, Starkwhite, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland and 1301SW, Naarm/Melbourne and Gadigal Country/Sydney.
4: Angelica Mesiti Over the Air and Underground 2020. Five-channel HD video, 10-channel mono audio, 9 minutes. Installation view, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh 2021. Photo by Sally Georgiou. Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Allen, Paris, France and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne.