UN-Settled

22 & 23 April

6 - 8.30pm.

Unsettled: uneasy, restless, disrupted.

Un-settled explores stories of the land and people of the land; referencing practices of first nations people, agriculture, and changes occurring with the advance of suburbia. 

Unsettled is a series of works combining oral history, projection, moving image, installation, music and performance exploring the enduring and emerging narratives of the Bella Wien. These artistic works bring to life big stories and small, through objects, machinery, voices and light. Narratives that are revealing, unexpected and, frequently, unsettling.

The project utilises the Portarlington Mill and the natural landscape as a canvas juxtaposing indigenous stories and coloniser stories of yesterday and today. These intersecting stories generate retellings - new emergent stories with the possibility of uneasy, restless, disrupted understandings of the tangible and intangible cultural richness of the Bellarine.

Our hope is that the project holds a space for us all to bring our stories as we seek ways of understanding the multiple intertwined story threads that have continued to create the narrative of the Bellarine.

The use of spaces will suit the ongoing concerns with Covid-19 and ensure flexible responses to changing situations.