Ground work: from here to there

This work was produced in response to a workshop held in September 2015 at Culpra Station, where thirty Indigenous and non‑indigenous creative practitioners met to map material and immaterial qualities of country. Challenging cartographic convention, the resultant Interpretive Wonderings exhibition features a series of mappings in a variety of media including sound recordings, drawings, paintings, collections, performances, video, constructions and photography. The installation draws on Paul Carter's framing of the Mallee through 'Ground Truthing' and through 1:1 mapping, sampling and a narrative text it charts the ground plane as the material registration of phenomena, occupation, encounter and disturbance - the interface across which different knowledge systems unfold. Ground Work combines physical sampling, film, garment-making and narrative to explore both the experiential and material qualities of this shifting ground condition.