Faculty of Arts and Society
Creative Practice Responding to Country
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Part of the Academy of Arts' Arts Immersion Program
About
Charles Darwin University’s Academy of the Arts offers a unique learning experience for creative practitioners to visit and respond to Australia’s world-heritage landscape, Kakadu National Park, in the Northern Territory.
Participants will have the opportunity to develop their creative practice with artist-teachers as guides and mentors and with opportunities to collaborate across disciplines with each other. You will be asked to observe and listen deeply to the landscape, waterways, skies and weather, and the animals and plants that make up the unique ecology of Kakadu. You will also be introduced to the Indigenous culture through the Kakadu traditional owners' storytelling, language and creative practices.
During this art immersion experience, you will engage creatively in response to your observations of Kakadu and share your creative findings with the group through a guided series of workshops, reflections and critical discussions, leading to presentations of your work-in-progress. You will be exposed to new techniques, materials, methodologies, and ways of making meaning of the world, telling stories, performing songs and dances, and making art. The learning experience is open to participants responding to Country through a range of disciplines and media, such as creative writing, film, new media, live performance, music, composition, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, print or design.
Following the on-country immersion, you are invited to complete a creative output that draws on the influence of the on-country experience and learning. For those participants enrolled in a higher education degree and who wish to gain credit, this course is available for enrolment through CDU’s Academy of the Arts.
Details
Who: Ideal for creative artists, writers, educators, art students and appreciators.
When:
On-country in Kakadu: 21-25 August 2023
Independent Study unit Intensive 5: 21 Aug – 1 Oct 2023
Where: Kakadu National Park
Cost:
Public: $3,300.00 (GST inc.)
CDU Students: Cost: $550.00 + unit registration fees
Max 20 Participants
Courtesy of the artist David Cameron
Fee information
For those participants enrolled in a higher education degree and who wish to gain credit, this course is available for enrolment through CDU's Academy of the Arts. The unit code is IAS403 Independent Study (10 credits).
Please note places are restricted to a maximum number of participants. If you are unable to register due to this trip being full and would like to be placed on a waiting list should a place become available, please email your name and phone number to intensives@cdu.edu.au*.
*Please note any cancellation made within 48hrs of the designated departure date will incur a $300 late cancellation fee.
Booking
Register below through CDU Webpay.
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