Dominique Chen & Caitlin Franzmann

Caitlin Franzmann is an Magandjin/Brisbane based artist who creates installations, participatory works and performances that explore ethics of learning with, and caring for, the environment. I’m interested in understanding how histories and the influencing forces of power and care, shape places, cultures, and ecosystems. Since 2018 I’ve has worked with Ensayos, a collective research practice working on issues of political ecology in Tierra del Fuego and other archipelagos. Dominique Chen is a Gamilaroi woman, artist and researcher, living on Jinibara Country in Southeast Queensland. Working primarily within socially engaged, relational, performative and installation practice, I’m passionate about the role of creative practice in understanding and fostering relationships between people and Country. I’m co-founder, along with Quandamooka artist Libby Harward, of The Blak Laundry, a First Nations run laundromat, living artwork and relational enterprise.

A series of interactive sites/performances facilitated by two lost homing pigeons (AKA homies)-one native to the broader region, and one introduced. Throughout the C24 festival weekend, the pigeons will appear with their orienteering and wayfinding tools to engage audiences in activities that provoke reflection on what it means to be oriented, to give and receive messages, and to find a way home’.

This project is supported by the Carstairs Prize, funded by a private donor and administered by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).