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Tracings: Kororoit Creek, July 2026

Jayson Cooper

Published : 2026

Abstract

Tracings is a video and sound installation first presented at The Nature of Impact: The Melbourne Biodiversity Institute Symposium, Melbourne Biodiversity Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, July 2026.Artist StatementMy work sits across art, teaching and research in early childhood studies. It is shaped by questions of Country/Place, sustainability, relational pedagogies, and how we learn to understand ourselves as part of the biodiversity of where we live.This video and sound work was made on Boonwurrung Country along Kororoit Creek. The creek has become a place I keep returning to and tracing through sound, video, writing, drawing, making, and ‘swimming’ in its histor..

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