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TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters, curated by Nina Miall, is an exhibition of new works by 25 artists from across the country whose practices explore ideas of slowness, deceleration, drift and the elasticity of time.

The Biennial’s title Slow Moving Waters comes from the translation of the local Woiwurrung word ‘tarrawarra’, after which the Museum, and its surrounding area of Wurundjeri Country in the Yarra Valley are named. The exhibition responds to two related themes: the idea of slowness, and the winding course of the Birrarung (Yarra River), which flows south of the Museum grounds.

The media preview will feature an opening presentation of a large-scale sonic artwork The Rivers Singwhich has been commissioned for the inaugural RISING festival. Conceived by artists Byron J Scullin and Thomas Supple and composed by YortaYorta/Yuin composer and soprano, Deborah Cheetham AO, The Rivers Sing’s celebration of the Birrarung (Yarra River) and the Maribyrnong River finds a natural home at TarraWarra.

KEY PICTORIAL OPPORTUNITIES: 

·       First showing of eleven newly commissioned artworks that reflect the unique context and sense of place particular to TarraWarra;

·       Interview and photograph some of the 25 exhibiting artists with their artwork, including dynamic installations involving melting ice and liquefying toffee;

·       A five-minute preview presentation of The Rivers Sing at 10am and 11am ahead of the full ten-minute presentation of The Rivers Sing at 12:15pm.

KEY EDITORIAL OPPORTUNITIES:

·       This 7th TarraWarra Biennial surveys new forms and ideas in Australian contemporary art practice, addressing timely and urgent issues: environmental fragility and an aesthetics of care, First Nations’ creation stories and caretaking for Country, deep listening, heightened awareness, interconnected ecologies, alternative conceptions of time (cosmological, geological, microbiological) and ways of being in the world;

·       Site-responsive contemporary art responses to slow ideas and practices in an age of acceleration with artworks unfolding in different ways over the course of the exhibition.

·       First Nations artists represent more than a third of the exhibition including senior Wurundjeri Elder Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin AO who has collaborated with Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones;

·       Interview with Guest curator, TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters, Nina Miall;

·       Introduction by Composer of the Sunday Arts Magazine

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