In Conversation:
Artists and Architects: Kate Stroud, Chas Glover and Brandon Pais
Thursday, 20 July, from 4.00pm, pop-up space
A conversation with artists and architects, exploring solutions for Lismore varying from the whimsical to the practical.
Catch up with Kate Stroud, whose work Did you notice takes the form of a community notice board as a kind of relic from today towards a perhaps dystopian future. It presents ‘knowings’ collected from people who experienced the Lismore floods in 2022. The information contained provides practical, imaginative, and political insights that capture fundamental elements entrenched in Lismore’s culture as a direct result of this event.
Chas Glover’s work with iconic Queenslanders high on stilts being sucked into space well above the flood waters provides solutions by imagination and painterly escapism. It embodies the artist’s purposeful pursuit of creativity as a practical way to deal with the reality of Lismore’s flooding and the future.
Lastly, architect Brandon Pais’s towers offer a thoughtful solution for a community that understands and is willing to live with floods. His iconic towers, distributed democratically across flood-prone areas in the CBD, provide further height and security in major floods.
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Image: Brandon Pais, "Lismore the City of Towers" 2022, digital image, courtesy the artist
