Mildura Palimpsest #8 - ‘Collaborators and Saboteurs’

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Mildura Palimpsest #8 is curated by Helen Vivian and Kristian Haggblom who along with the committee, aim at giving opportunities to both local and national artists, in addition to showcasing international projects and artists from Australia, Tibet, Finland, UK, China and Japan.

The theme ‘Collaborators and Saboteurs’ explores the idea that we are all collaborators and saboteurs in the created worlds we inhabit.

Inaugurated in 1998 Mildura Palimpsest is a biennial site-specific visual arts exposition and cross-disciplinary symposium. Palimpsest is significant for its direct engagement with issues of environmental and social sustainability and its remarkable regional location; near the border of three states (Vic, NSW and SA), the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, one of Australia’s most important cultural sites - Lake Mungo National Park, and set in the intersecting terrain of desert and irrigated horticulture.

Palimpsest, meaning a parchment which has been partly erased and re-inscribed, evokes the marks made by human settlement on the land, the passage of time, presence and absence, and the web of inter-dependence connecting the natural and the cultural, the material and the immaterial, spheres of existence.

Past Events

2010
Mildura Palimpsest Symposium 2010, (to) give time to time — Mildura site
an AEAF initiative in collaboration with Mildura Palimpsest

> Friday 17 September – Sunday 19 September 2010

On the 17–19 Sept 2010, Mildura Palimpsest collaborated with the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF), to stage the Symposium component of (to) give time to time. In a spectacular weekend of ideas, art and dining, Mildura Palimpsest hosted 20 of Australia’s most celebrated artists, curators, writers and gallery directors for a National symposium and commissioned performance art and installation works exploring the history of ephemeral art practice in Australia and world-wide. The symposium was opened by Robyn Archer OAM, and included a pre-dinner live webcast appearance by Stelarc, with convivial dining hosted by Stefano De Pieri.

Mildura has played a vital role in the history and development of ephemeral and experimental art in Australia. Palimpsest continues the rich experimental tradition established by the Mildura Sculpture Triennials (1970-1988), which have attained iconic status in Australian art history and continue to influence emerging artists to this day.

Palimpsest provides artists with the opportunity to work outside the metropolitan white cube and the Palimpsest Symposium encourages cross-disciplinary dialogue on the cultural and material environment. Artists’ residencies facilitate creative engagement with these vital issues that extend beyond state and national borders.

2009
   Murray Darling Palimpsest Symposium: Mildura, April 3 - 5, 2009

Over 100 artists addressed the theme of displacement and exhibited their work throughout the Basin in April 2009, with more than 40 artists exhibiting in the Mildura region as commissioned, fringe or part of the exciting initiative, The Wentworth Gaol project. Click here to view archived events for 2009

2006
Murray Darling Palimpsest Symposium: Mildura, August, 2006

Click here to view the 2006 Murray Darling Palimpsest program