/// hyper-local presents Shipping Roots Book Launch ///

We warmly invite you to please join us for this launch featuring an in-conversation between Shipping Roots artist/editor, Keg de Souza and contributor, James Oliver.

Friday April 5th, 2024, 6pm

Willows & Wine, 315 Victoria Street, West Melbourne, Narrm/Naarm

Lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples

https://www.blackbooksbar.com/

*Please note there is limited capacity at this venue*

/// Shipping Roots Book Launch ///

We warmly invite you to please join  us for this book launch featuring a conversation between curator/editor Melissa Ratliffand Shipping Roots artist/editor Keg de Souza.

Saturday April 13th 2024, 3-5pm

Frontyard Projects

228 Illawarra Rd, Marrickville (Sydney)

Lands of the Cadigal Wangal peoples

https://www.frontyardprojects.org/

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future,
to an echo from a vanished past.

­         –John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (1951)

Shipping Roots shares lesser-known stories of plants being moved over oceans and lands, transported in the hulls of ships, as elements of the colonial legacies of the British Empire. Specifically, these stories link Australia, India and the UK and remind us that the entanglement of plants and people is inextricably tied to understanding place, as well as notions of belonging.

The book was published to correspond with Keg de Souza’s exhibition of the same name at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (2023) as an expanded reader. It creates a narrative around plant species relating to the artist’s own cultural removal – as a person of Goan heritage ­– drawing from her experiences as a person whose ancestral lands were colonised, and as a settler on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people.

The book includes high quality photography of the exhibition alongside essays and recipes by numerous contributors, including Zena Cumpston, Brian Martin, Ashish Nerleker, Lucy Steeds, Claire G. Coleman, Henry Noltie, James Oliver, Jaya Bharathi, Undine Sellbach, Greg Kenicer and more.

More info: http://www.kegdesouza.com/portfolio/shipping-roots/

Shipping Roots was generously supported by Outset, DFAT through the UK/AUS Season, Creative Australia, CreateNSW and Parramatta City Council.

The book was published by Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.

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hyper-local is a creative practice research collaboration initiated by Eugenia Flynn and James Oliver. James Oliver is a Hebridean Gàidheal from the Isle of Skye. It is also part of the non/fictionLab at RMIT University. The collaboration is an expanded writing and publication/s practice, oriented within (and as) a global archipelago of storied practice and practices of story. It has ethical, methodological, and thematic priorities of: place-based research and emplaced practice; islandness and archipelagic thinking; cultural correspondences and translation; Indigenous Practice Research; ecological and decolonial ethics.