Take The Soils Project home with you! This booklet is the third in a series of publications that will develop over the coming years. You can buy all three booklets for a special bundle price of $40 The first volume included essays that introduced the ideas and issues that have arisen from this collaborative project to date. The second booklet has been written by Zena Cumpston (Barkandji) on south-east Australian indigenous plants. This booklet introduces the works in the exhibition and includes documentation photographs and short statements. At the heart of this project is an exploration of the effects of Dutch and British colonisation on land sovereignty, ecology and climate change through the lens of the communities, artists and arts workers who are deeply concerned and directly affected by it. The complex histories of each location, the multiplicity of landscapes and environments, and the diverse impact of farming, mining, plantations and global industries on cultural heritage, land management and traditional knowledges are of interest to everyone involved. Climate change, and its effects on land management, is also powerfully felt in Europe. This project has engendered a dialogue between practitioners from the so-called First World north and the Global South, through a process of deep listening and learning. Moreover, the diasporic stories within the Netherlands (for example, Indonesian, Mexican, Colombian and Chinese) chime with the diasporic reality of Australia and speak not only to a sense of dislocation and displacement, but a shared experience of rupture created by climate change.The Soils Project Curatorium thanks the advisors to the project, the artists and communities involved in the project, and the funders, sponsors and arts workers who have made it all possible, for their generosity of spirit, support and faith in the project. The Soils Project exhibition participants are: Fellows and Artists Uncle Dave Wandin (Wurundjeri) and Brooke Wandin (Wurundjeri), Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation; Peta Clancy (Bangerang); Megan Cope (Quandamooka) and Keg de Souza; D Harding (Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal); Badan Kajian Pertanahan (Bunga Siagian & Ismal Muntaha); Beyond Walls (Armando Ello, Jeremy Flohr, Glenda Pattipeilohy, Suzanne Rastovac); Wapke Feenstra; Lian Gogali and the Insitut Mosintuwu; Moelyono; Pluriversity weavers: Seynawiku Izquierdo Torres, Dwasimney Del Carmen Izquierdo Torres, Dwanimako Arroyo Izquierdo, María Eufemia Arroyo Izquierdo (Kwarte Umuke community, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia), Ana Bravo Pérez, Aldo Ramos, Aliki van der Kruijs, LI Yuchen; Riar Rizaldi; Yurni Sadariah (member of PEREMPUAN AMAN of Rangan Adat communities); Diewke van den Heuvel; Rolando Vázquez Advisors Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation, Zena Cumpston (Barkandji), Antariksa, Dr Danny Butt, Dr Helen Hughes, Rolando Vázquez This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; the Sidney Myer Fund; the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands, Australia; the Mondriaan Fund, the public cultural funding organisation focusing on visual arts and cultural heritage; Dutch Culture; and Fasilitasi Bidang Kebudayaan (FBK) Interaksi Budaya, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of Indonesia. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; the Sidney Myer Fund; the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands, Australia; the Mondriaan Fund, the Public Cultural Funding Organisation focusing on visual arts and cultural heritage; Dutch culture; and Fasilitasi Bidang Kebudayaan (FBK) Interaksi Budaya, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of Indonesia. Paperback: 60 pages Dimensions: 21 x 29.7 cm
