WHO ARE OUR ARTISTS EN ROUTE?
We’ve been planning this part since March (after 10 years of offering FLOAT residencies, we know some goodies). Now it’s time to share the details for October’s Flaneur. Cos THIS is the reason we do it. To show off the fab artists we meet through FLOAT - while we build a community-designed social enterprise that can pay them to BE artists. They will fill our journey with art-led environmental knowledge and passion. They will welcome you, walk with you, eat and chat with you all week. They weave our FAR EAST FLANEUR as we wander.
CORRINGLE CREATORS
https://www.facebook.com/61584810355175/photos/
Celebrating fifth-generation Aboriginal weaving traditions. Custom baskets, workshops & team-building experiences. Proudly community-made. Susan and Kylie Martin will spend the morning with us, at Corringle Slips - weaving, yarning and brunching.
BEA MOWSON
https://www.instagram.com/bea_mowson/
Bea Mowson's (b.2025) creativity is expressed in a warp (as in weft) of stream of consciousness improvisation and rigidly rational, efficient technical structures. They struggle (accidentally infringe upon/compulsively break) with hierarchy and convention, often due to ongoing confusion about what the exact rules are anyway(?) . They’re a sound engineer, teacher, good listener, like to pitch in with practical tasks and have quiet time away from the group, and are more happy washing the tea cups than presenting on stage, except for breakout moments of being the centre of attention and relishing the moment of being alive (see: dancing in clubs). They are excited to be part of FEF: it’s their first proper time in the area (not counting the Seaspray lost week) and have litterally just discovered (bio as verb not noun) that their mum’s family settled in Yarram Yarram in the 1840s. They loved the look of the Wattle Haus and the concept of permaculture within the arts. They love to dance with others and by themselves when the moment is right. (And active member of Australian Walking Artists where some of these great pix were taken - at Rainbow Beach Retreat.)
BERT SPINKS
MONIQUE SCHIFFERMULLER
https://www.instagram.com/storytellerspinks/
Bert Spinks is a poet, storyteller and bushwalker. He'll spin a poetic yarn around the campfire at Nowa Nowa, which will bring together all sorts of elements of East Gippsland, from human history to six-legged critters.
Monique Schiffermuller is a horticulturalist and photographer. Mon's creative prompts will help us pay close attention to plants and birds along our Flaneur journey.
Just a few thoughts we've had about how to contribute to the springtime Flaneur - we've been doing some of our own little journalling activities, which we thought could easily and casually be woven into the event. At the moment we're collaborating on a daily leaf drawing-and-poem - a five-minute exercise that we do on op-shop postcards.
Or a little zine-type work, 'Critters You Might See Along the Way' (or what have you) - something small and easily photocopied/shared, highlighting different insects, birds and fungi that can be seen in East Gippsland in October/November.
NELE JUNGENKRUEGER & SASHA KRUSE
https://www.instagram.com/subclass820/
SONIC REFLECTIONS
What sound does a memory of a journey carry? Near the end of the Far East Flaneur experience, this activity offers a moment to pause and reflect on the paths walked, moments noticed and feelings that surfaced along the way. Through a short writing exercise participants gather small fragments of their experiences and translate them into simple sounds using voice, breath, body or found objects. Written reflections may remain private, and anything shared may optionally be recorded. These sonic gestures then enter a shared pool of audio from which a soundscape will be improvised.
AVIVA REED
Aviva Reed is a transdisciplinary visual ecologist. Her practice reframes scientific theories, through an eco philosophical lens, thinking with deep time and ecological categorisations that shape worldmaking. She explores time, scale and relationship using storytelling, visualisations, soundscapes and conversation. Her recent thesis is a focus on contesting categorisations in western ecological science through a carbon lens. During Flaneur, she will be offering an animate trickster lens of matter cycles during walks, talks and presentations.
TIM BUTCHER
https://storycraft.productions
Coming to capture our Far East story. StoryCraft Productions is a Tasmanian documentary production company specialising in character-led factual content about everyday creativity and community life. Tim will join us on our first Sunday - 25th October at Iceworks. And then walking/paddling/cycling with us for the rest of the week.
Tim has 20+ years experience leading long-term visual research projects with communities in Australia and the UK, including remote Aboriginal communities and socially engaged artists. He is the author of Creative Work Beyond Precarity: Learning to Work Together (Routledge, 2023) and has published lots on community creativity and ethical research methods.
GARY (GETZ) YELEN
https://www.facebook.com/ICEWORKS.3909
Getz’s life as an artist is at the heart of what we live in Far East Gippsland. Ever an artist, creating community wherever he dawdles (and builds). Getz will be in situ at Rules Point - in a a beautiful shed on Lake Tyers. “An installation that embraces the thing that excites my art. I see myself as a builder of form and shape and space that is touchable from your hand, and your eyes one encourages the other . My plan is to include those ideals in the Flaneur work that I do, and to frame you in the landscape, where the joy of the natural world becomes part of your joy on this journey.
JOSEPHINE JAKOBI
Find and Forage … curiosity leads to discovery of treasures in the ordinary course of a stroll on the beach or the bush.
ELISABETH SCOTT
“When Gippsland artist, Elisabeth Scott, took up residence in the unique Float 3909 Studio, a houseboat created specifically for artists to commune directly with Nature in an estuary habitat, she found herself in a rich ecological space, a profusion of light, water, birds, fish and plants and the intricate dynamics between species and habitat.” Jo Moulton / Biophiliarts https://www.biophiliarts.com/post/elisabeth-scott-surrendering-to-nature
And now Elisabeth will be joining us on the Far East Flaneur! First up she’ll be part of the BIRDLIFE AUSTRALIA Art Workshop on 24 October at Lake Tyers Beach - and then joining us, as she can, throughout the following week all the way to the Far East. What a treat for us all.
