Join us on Saturday 28 August at 1 pm for a special performance by Bloom Collective (Jan Baker-Finch, Renata Buziak, Vicki Kelleher, Erik Griswold and Vanessa Tomlinson).

Please meet at the Art Gallery and you will be directed to the outdoor performance site.

About the performance

What does dirt have to do with it? Soil erosion creates gullies and the resulting sediment run-off has a profound impact on the environment. The wrong kind of beauty by Bloom Collective is an art-science collaboration that focuses on these issues.

The project presents an embodied, experiential response to the fragility of the landscape produced by the gullying process. The harrowing and ongoing drama of the landscape simultaneously reveals moments of delicate sculptural beauty that the Collective explores through poetry, movement, sound, visual art and documentation.

The project was developed through an Artist in Residence Science(AIRS) Program and first exhibited at the Ecosciences Precinct, Brisbane and is now showing in Sites of Connection at USC Art Gallery.

The performance will be documented through videography and a binaural recording and presented as part of Field Trip, an international research symposium investigating creative practice at the intersection of art, science, technology and the environment.

The hybrid 'live and digital' symposium will explore the ethics of interdisciplinary art and will illuminate how vital creativity is in responding to the climate crisis and reimagining our future.

Register for Field Trip here.

Field Trip is presented in partnership with Horizon Festival, USC Art Gallery, The School of Business and Creative Industries at USC, ANAT and Arts Front.

Sites of Connection is presented by USC Art Gallery with the support of Horizon Festival.