Field Trip is an experimental national research symposium featuring creative practice at the intersection of art, science, technology and the environment. 

In 2022, Field Trip responds to theme of Planetary Health with a series of transient experiences including walking research panels, interactive installations and environmental immersions across the Sunshine Coast. The event will explore the latest IPCC research that suggests climate changes is a threat to human health and wellbeing with a range of interdisciplinary provocations to reimagine our future.  

Field Trip launched in 2020 as a response to the global pandemic and has featured some of Australia’s leading artists and researchers in hybrid presentations, panels, interactive artworks and participatory experiences online and in person. The project explores the possibilities of presenting creative research and experimental practice in extended realities and new models that move beyond the traditional format of an academic conference.   

Image credit: Tricia King

FIELD TRIP PROGRAM

Fri 2 Sep, 3 – 5pm (online)

Join us for a virtual Welcome to Country and an online panel featuring the 2022 Field Trip team and a series of guest artists and researchers responding to theme of Planetary Health.

After you have registered, you can access via the Zoom Link here.

If you are on the coast, you can also check out Medicament For Your Predicament: Open Pharmacy in person (5pm – 7pm) — an installation and subversive retail space by Field Trip Saturday Keynote Speaker, Cat Jones.

Register for Friday

Sat 3 Sep, 10am – 5pm

3 short field trips on Kabi Kabi Country with walking papers and keynotes.

• 10am – 11am, Mooloolah River National Park (Welcome to Country and walking panel). Meet at Claymore Road.
• 11:30am – 1pm, Maroochy Botanic Gardens (walking panel, artist talks and Libby Harward’s project Listen More Not Spoken For. Meet outside the Art and Ecology Centre. Meet outside the Art and Ecology Centre. Bring headphones and phones.  
• 2pm – 5pm, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs Campus (walking panel and Cat Jones Keynote) meet outside the USC Art Gallery

Register for Saturday

Sun 4 Sep, 5am – 8am

• Dawn Awakening followed by Field Trip closing walking panel along the beach. Meet at the entry to Stumers Creek (near the toilet block) at the end of Dawn Awakening.

Register for Sunday