BECOMING WITH: Rooted Worlds, Relational practice, entangled futures

Created for the George Paton Gallery at University of Melbourne, this workshop uses ecological frameworks to assert that creative practice is never solitary, that
it emerges through relation—shaped by the rhythms, resistances, and invitations of the worlds we are entangled with. Human and more-than-human. Seen and unseen.

In a time of ongoing rupture and uncertainty, how might our practices root deeper?

How might we co-create with the wisdom of ecologies that know how to adapt, regenerate, and endure?

This workshop invites artists, writers, and creative practitioners into an embodied and experimental inquiry guided by more-than-human intelligences—slime molds, root webs, mycelial threads, giant kelp and coral constellations.

Through a series of interactive and sensorial exercises, we’ll attune to the shapes, flows, and patterns of interdependence that underlie life on this planet—and explore how these might become methods for making.

For those seeking to make otherwise, to stay with complexity, and to build creative ecosystems that are as feral, fluid, and collaborative as the worlds they grow from.