Where: Meeting at Goulburn Wetlands, exact walking route will be communicated to participants in advance.

When: Saturday 2 August, 11:30am-12:30pm

What: Dust of these domains is an artist-led reading-walking performance connecting Bianca Hester's work currently on display at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery with the sights, sounds and histories of Goulburn.

Cost: Free

Bookings: Essential

Bring: Walking shoes, hat, water bottle, jumper.

Come for a walk through Goulburn with exhibiting artist Bianca Hester.Dust of these domains is an ongoing project involving reading and walking, evolving in relation to the specific locations in which it is performed.

The event led by the artist involves a script composed of textual fragments and a set of hand-scaled bronze objects bearing impressions of fossilised plant life from the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, when the continent formed part of Gondwana approximately 250 million years ago.

Originally developed from the book Sandstone written by Hester in 2020 for the Lost Rocks series, this textual performance is positioned as a set of lively ‘footnotes’ that mobilise elements of the exhibition – speaking directly to its materiality and to the environmental contexts and geologic temporalities of the places underpinning it.

This new iteration tracks a circuit through Goulburn, and involves listening, moving, and tactile engagement. The walk pauses at specific locations, where text-fragments written in response to the site are activated. In this work participants are invited to reflect upon the entanglement of social and environmental forces entangled within the current climate crisis.

Touch grass. Learn about Goulburn. Feel good.