Animation (silent): Lisa Roberts in conversation with Shawn Wilson. 2016
Growing and sharing knowledge
"...Indigenous Canadian scholar Shawn Wilson asks, "What does sharing and growing Indigenous knowledge look like?" He wants an animation for a presentation he's planning.
We have a long phone conversation. I load the presentation file he just sent to my computer. I see words spiralling out from the centre of the screen.
Shawn explains that knowledge itself has agency through art and science, and that the context in which that knowledge reaches us is the vital component in our understanding.
Listening to Shawn, and watching his spiralling words, I get a sense of the movement in the interaction we are having in this moment, and of how knowledge (our knowledge) is growing.
I use Adobe Flash animation software and a Wacom drawing tablet and stylus to create this animation that I recognise as minds meeting and opening up.
Lisa Roberts 2020
In the wake of the defeat of the Voice referendum in Australia, and the failure of the global stocktake to meet the Paris Agreement goals to stop burning fossil fuels that are causing global warming, and re-reading Eva Cox's 1995 Boyer Lectures, Towards a Truly Civil Society, Portrait of Community was begun as a project to contribute to the global push for balance in nature, including human nature.
Lisa Roberts 2023
Imagine a spiral in which each circle unfolds into wider circles. This is a metaphor for a society which expands into ever broader circles so that all can be part of the whole.
Eva Cox 1995
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2022 We loved each other Getting my mother's sewing machine |
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2021 Amelia Hair-Heart The adventurous guinea-pig |
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2020 Nothingness Antarctic ice |
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2019 Seeding Treaty Indigenous and Western art and science meet |
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2019 Antarctic Heritage Krill mating |
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2019 Beauty that Was Past and present life and death |
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2017 Southern Ocean Wrack The sea in my blood |
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2016 Growing and Sharing Knowledge Animating conversation |
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2013 Art from Climate Science Data for action |
