Fostering creative, collaborative, and ethical responses to ecological and social issues.
Vision
Now, more than ever, we need creative and critical makers and thinkers to respond collaboratively to climate and social issues.
Clarendon Creative is a residency program akin to a living lab where artists and thinkers come to examine urgent problems through reflection, collaboration, exchange and experimentation, so to find ways where these issues may be effectively communicated and implemented into society.
Clarendon Creative acknowledges the Kaurna people, the original custodians of the Adelaide Plains and the unceded land upon which we are built. We respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past, present and future.
Clarendon Creative is an initiative for furthering the creative and ecological invention of artist and activist, Noela Hjorth. It is about exploring social, ecological issues through experimentation, speculation, iteration and implementation.
Building a bespoke model from existing international best practice examples, Clarendon Creative is about fostering new types of collaboration and exchange that are interdisciplinary, playful and future-oriented.
The outcomes are process-based and framed around curated conversations responding to burning social and ecological issues.
CLARENDON CREATIVE WILL:
— Explore key challenges of our time;
— Engage expert national and international artists and thinkers;
— Enhance our understandings of, and solutions for, social and ecological challenges;
— Embed partnerships with local community groups, schools and industry.
All in acknowledgment of the Traditional Owners of the land.
The residency has been established in living memory of the artist Noela Hjorth.
Noela Hjorth
Co-founding the Australian print workshops at the Meat Market in 1970s, Noela’s work sought to deploy interdisciplinary techniques from art and anthropology to explore our changing relationship to the environment.
Travelling extensively throughout Asia and Australia in the 1970s-80s, Hjorth sought to capture cross-cultural rituals to make sense of societal transformations.
In a technological world which often puts discontinuity and disruption at the centre, she sought to understand continuities by placing the social and ecological at the centre.
The residency seeks to expand upon these ideologies to consider how we might design for social, ecological and creative futures.
Organisational
CC will replicate successful NGO charity models by offsetting the residency program with event-for-hire activities.
However, in order to develop this sustainable model, investment from state and local councils will be sought for the initial piloting and establishment of the operational model.
CC will have an advisory board consisting of key experts and partners such as council and community representatives and will demonstrate diversity and inclusion best practices.
