Events
Actions for Water II
Free public programs from August to November
The Actions for Water II public programs bring together artist activations, talks, tours and lectures exploring water, ecology, climate awareness, cultural knowledge and shared resources.
The Bureau of Water: Nomadic Library
Hosted at Bendigo Library from 20 August to 8 November
Sharmila Wood’s The Bureau of Water is a nomadic library inspired by Kerala’s vaayanashalas, gathering interdisciplinary texts on water, ecology and collective care.
Water Stories: Lecture-Workshop with Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris
Saturday 31 October, 1 – 3pm
As part of Actions for Water II, join us for a talk and workshop with Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, author of The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water (Routledge, 2024).
Australian and Swedish curator, writer and researcher Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris explores the cultural, ecological and aesthetic dimensions of water.
Drawing on ideas from The Hydrocene, this lecture-workshop will introduce hydro-artistic methods for thinking and creating with water, inviting participants to consider water as a force that shapes memory, place, community and environmental futures.
Following a short presentation, participants will take part in a collaborative water stories workshop, exploring the many ways water connects people, landscapes and histories.
Register via Eventbrite water-stories-lai.eventbrite.com.au
Djaara-led Tour
Saturday 7 November, 11 am–12.30 pm
To close the exhibition, you’re invited to join a Djaara-led tour of Wanyarra Dum (the Frog Ponds) on Yaram Yaram Manya (Bendigo Creek), a culturally significant site where ecological restoration has renewed a chain of interconnected freshwater habitats.
Free, bookings essential as places are limited.
To register, email a.wallin@latrobe.edu.au with a brief note explaining why you would like to participate.
Music Image Time Lab
A monthly meeting of artforms in time-based media, MIT Lab is a space for sharing work-in-progress, experiments, new ideas, or new work in a supportive community setting. Everyone is welcome to contribute work.
Click the link above for further information.
2026 MIT Lab dates:
8 March
12 April
3 May
7 June
5 July
2 August
13 September
4 October
8 November
16 December – end of year event
Since 2006, we have delivered a robust residency program with international guests. Founded on exchange and research, we prioritise creative processes over predetermined outcomes. This model has proven deeply generative for artists, for our curatorial research, and for our wider program.
Our place-responsive residency program is driven by solid partnerships with First Nations led organisations in Victoria and key partners in the Asia Pacific region. Guided by the Djaara seasons, our residencies are grounded on Country and informed by the principles of self-determination, place and reciprocity. Rather than set outcomes, national and international artists are offered the opportunity to connect with place and community, to seed ideas and explore new directions. This program centres global First Nations artists and Indigenous ways of knowing.
Forthcoming public programs associated with artists visiting us and sharing knowledge will be listed below.
ECOTONE is a long-term artistic exchange bringing mid-career Australian and South Korean artists into reciprocal exchange. Led by artists Eugenia Lim (AUS) and Jinjoo Kim (KR) with Anna Nalpantidis, and supported by Line Cultural Foundation (Seoul, KR) and La Trobe Art Institute (Bendigo, AUS), ECOTONE fosters intercultural dialogue, place-based ecological artistic practice and meaningful connections between Australian and South Korean artistic communities.
WHAT IS ECOTONE?
‘Ecotone’ is an ecological term for the meeting place between two distinct communities or ecosystems - a space of transition, overlap and exchange where different environments meet and new forms of life can emerge.
For this pilot program, the term becomes a way of thinking about artistic exchange: a space between where artists, ideas, practices and perspectives can meet, shift and take root. Rather than simply moving between two places, ECOTONE creates the conditions for reciprocal exchange, allowing new relationships, collaborations and ways of thinking to emerge through ecological and place-based practice.
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Join us at La Trobe Art Institute on Saturday 7 November for an afternoon of artist-led conversation, screening and drinks.
2 pm – Eugenia Lim and Amelia Wallin in conversation, exploring Actions for Water II and its intersections with ecology, place and artistic practice.
3 pm – ECOTONE: Screening & Artist Sharing
A screening and conversation with Eugenia Lim, Jinjoo Kim (KR), Zoe Scoglio, James Nguyen, Gillian Kayrooz and Anna Nalpantidis, sharing reflections from ECOTONE – a new Australia-Korea exchange bringing artists together through ecological and place-based practice.
4 pm – Informal Drinks
Stay for a drink, snacks and continue the conversation with artists and guests.
All welcome.
FUNDING CREDITS
Ecotone has received grant funding from the Australia-Korea Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and is supported by Latrobe Art Institute and the Line Cultural Foundation.
CREDITS
Lead Artists: Eugenia Lim (AU) and Jinjoo Kim (KR)
Creative Producer: Anna Nalpantidis
Lead Partners: La Trobe Art Institute (AU) - Amelia Wallin (Senior Curator)
Presenting Partners: Line Cultural Foundation (KR) - Wonseok Koh (Director) and Minji Jin (Assistant Curator)
Collaborating Artists: Zoe Scoglio, James Nguyen and Gillian Kayrooz (AU), Ellie Kyungran Heo, HyeJoo Jun and Hyemin Son (KR)
Ecotone has received grant funding from the Australia-Korea Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and is supported by La Trobe Art Institute and the Line Cultural Foundation.
Sculpture Park – Melbourne Campus
Ongoing
Follow our map of the Sculpture Park [PDF 1MB] to explore more than 20 public sculptures in the bushland setting of the La Trobe Melbourne Campus. Works by artists including Charles Robb, Inge King, Robert Klippel, David Wilson, Karen Ward and Reko Rennie reflect key movements in contemporary Australian sculpture since the mid-1960s.