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Audio-visual video: Benthic Community Flutes is a sculptural and sound work-in-progress. Sketch 1 (Sandy Ghost Shrimp) has been made with the inter-tidal flows of Moonee Ponds Creek in mind. Video and audio material has been generated during a residency at S-t-u-d-y.space, Brunswick, 4-18 May 2021. This is a work-in-progress, which also takes place alongside and within the larger context of the ongoing Tributaries Collective (Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Benjamin Woods). This sketch of Benthic community flutes includes blown glass flutes inspired in part by the burrows of the sandy ghost shrimp, alive in Naarm/bay. Thanks to: Study, Brunswick s-t-u-d-y.space (Ender, Sophie, Dilân); staff and students at Monash University (Dale Meehan, Kate Hill, Dr Terri Bird, Dr Fiona Macdonald); folks from Tributaries collective (Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut); special thanks to Elena Betros-Lopez for video production; and thanks extend to City of Melbourne, Kaylene Brooks, Riley Lee, Friends of the Moonee Ponds Creek, Dr Fiona Bird, and Moreland City Council. I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Boon wurrung Bunurong people of the eastern Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians and owners of the lands, waters and airs on which this work takes place. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Image: Beeswax Flutes, video still, 2018.
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Wind Throb

at Conduction, 251 Barkly Street, Footscray 3011
Saturday 2nd August, 5-7pm

Conducted by Benjamin Woods with Emily Zou, Jacqui Gordon, Ria Soermardjo, Vanessa Chapple, Yongping Ren, Debris Facility Pty Ltd and more + 

Photo and video documentation by Ross Coulter




Unimposing Form, essay book, True Belief/Run Artist Run.
135x200 / 84 pages / perfect binding / ISBN 978-0-9756242-1-0

Design/cover by Adam Cruickshank
Edited by Abbra Kotlarczyk

Unimposing Form is an essay book that rethinks the relationship between form and matter in forming practices, including and exceeding sculpture. These essays explore the potential of the work of philosopher and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray for rethinking forces of sculptural formation through an exploration of the practices of Barbara Hepworth and Lygia Clark. When put into generative dialogue with theory from Jacques Derrida and Suely Rolnik, Irigaray’s conceptualisations of the interval, difference, relation, and affection enable a rethinking of tensions and conventions at play between notions of form and matter.

Purchase online from True Belief or from selected stockists: Run Artist Run, Alta Forma or in store from Conduction. 



Image credit: Ming Liew
Launched at NGV Art Book Fair, 16-18 May 2025.

Launch event/talk presented by Adam Cruickshank: 
Friday 16 May, 4-4:30pm 
NGV Federation Court
https://artbookfair.melbourne/event/unimposing-form/

The launch of Unimposing Form included a discussion between author Benjamin Woods, artist and Director of Alta Forma, Meredith Turnbull, and artist and academic Terri Bird. Artist and designer Adam Cruickshank, representing publisher True Belief, introduced the speakers.