Saturday 3 May 2025
10am - 4pm

The Hedberg
Ian Potter Recital Hall
enter via 19 Collins street

Join us for any or all three panel discussions.

This forum is co-presented by the University of Tasmania Library and Cultural Collections with the Centre for Safe Air on the occasion of the exhibition Articulate Matter, presented at the Plimsoll Gallery as part of the Ten Days on the Island Festival.

Air as a Medium
10:00 - 11:45am

Air is a life-giving medium while also holding the potential to be life-taking. In this panel with artists and researchers, we explore the breadth of air as a medium—breathing, art, sound, and pollution—and its impact on health and society.

Panellists
Emily Parsons-Lord, Dr Nur Sabrina 
Idrose, Professor Geoffrey Morgan, Associate Professor Ivan Hanigan,
Dr Mark Veitch and  Professor Fay Johnston.

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Air and Fire
12:15 – 1:45pm

In this panel, we explore our relationship with air and fire, from myths, stories, contemporary fire practices, worldbuilding, and survival.

Panellists
Loren Kronemyer, Professor Fay Johnston, Professor David Bowman and  Dr Rhea Psereckis.

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Air in Conflict
2:30 – 4:00pm

In this panel, we explore the politicisation of air, air in private and public spaces, transboundary impacts, and clean air as a proxy for equity.

Panellists
Hannah Foley, Conjoint Professor Bin Jalaludin, Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska and 
Caine Chennatt.

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Articulate Matter explores our relationship with air. Despite our perception of good air quality, events like bushfires have caused significant short-term impacts. As these events become more frequent, we face rising temperatures and increased dust pollutants.

This exhibition will leave you with a profound connection to the air we breathe, evoking gratitude, concern, hope, and recognition that the air around us reflects ourselves over time. What we derive from the air depends on what we put into it, creating an infinite loop of air changing life and our lives changing air.

This exhibition was developed by the University of Tasmania in partnership with the Centre for Safe Air, and will launch to coincide with the Ten Days on the Island festival 2025.

Artists: Jacobus Capone, Hannah Foley, Loren Kronemyer, Emily Parsons-Lord, David Sequeira, Philip Wolfhagen and  Jemima Wyman.  Exhibition curated by Caine Chennatt.

_{Image credit: Jemima Wyman, Haze 17, 2023, hand cut digital photo collage, 122 x 91.5 cm. Photography Ed Mumford. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf}