HOME BOUND: Workshop

In Home Bound, diverse rope materials and practices are woven together to create a massive social tapestry. Members of different communities who do not typically share the same space collaborate to build a giant rope installation.  

As the fibres intertwine, Home Bound enacts the social entanglement of life in Naarm/Melbourne. It is a choreography of knots that represents social dialogue, the negotiation of differences, and a testament to co-existence. You’re invited to get involved by donating materials, watching the creation process or participating in workshops to help create the tapestry itself. 

Workshop
Bunjil Place are proudly partnering with Home Bound to bring you a free knitting experiment workshop.

This workshop is a way for different knitters to get to know each other by working collectively with our hands and materials in a playful and improvisational way. Drop in any time from 11.00 am - 3.00 pm. 

Donations
Are you a weaver? Knitter? Rigger? Sailor? Ropeworker? Or the owner of a shed full of abandoned fibres in need of a new home? Home Bound is calling for donations of ropes and weaving fibres from across Melbourne to become a part of this one-of-a-kind installation. 

So, dig through your sheds, scout your homes, and bring your materials our way. 

Home Bound is the 9th Betty Amsden Participation Program - large-scale community events designed to engage diverse communities, break cultural and economic barriers, inspire civic and public participation and build community pride. 

Home Bound is made possible by:
The Betty Amsden Endowment
Principal Sponsor: DECJUBA Foundation
Project Partner: Craft Victoria

Learn more about Home Bound

Luke George (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist creating work that spans performance, installation, craft and curation. Luke was born in lutruwita/Tasmania and resides on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne. Through their work, Luke examines the dynamics of intimacy and collectivity to create ‘safe spaces’ that allow for care as well as risk. Luke’s artistic practice is informed by queer politics and spaces, whereby people are neither singular nor isolated; bodies of difference can intersect, practice mutual listening, take responsibility for themselves and one another. Luke creates and performs work across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, with notable presentations at the Venice Biennale, National Galleries of Victoria and Singapore, RISING, Dance Massive, Liveworks Festival, Rencontres chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis, Time Based Art Festival and many more. Luke was a 2019 Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship recipient, in 2020 appointed inaugural Artistic Associate of Temperance Hall and in 2022 was bequeathed a Chloe Monroe Fellowship.

www.lukegeorge.net/

Daniel Kok studied Fine Art & Critical Theory (Goldsmiths College, London), Solo/Dance/Authorship (HZT, Berlin) and Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies (APASS, Brussels). In 2008, he received the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council (Singapore). His artistic work deals with the politics of Spectatorship and Audienceship, and have been presented across Asia, Europe, Australia and North America; notably in the Venice Biennale, Maxim Gorki (Berlin), Rising (Melbourne) and Festival/Tokyo. As artistic director of Dance Nucleus (Singapore), he develops capacities for artists and trans-local partnerships in the Asia-Pacific. He curates da:ns LAB and the VECTOR exhibition in collaboration with the Esplanade (Singapore). He is based between Singapore and Berlin.

www.diskodanny.com
www.dancenucleus.com