22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020

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22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 ARTISTS

4E SYDNEY – ADRIFT LAB – TONY ALBERT – CHARLOTTE ALLINGHAM MARIA THEREZA ALVES – LHOLA AMIRA – JOËL ANDRIANOMEARISOA ARTREE NEPAL – SAMMY BALOJI – DENILSON BANIWA – BANKSTOWN POETRY SLAM – BE. – DION BEASLEY – JOHANNA BELL – NAMILA BENSON SISSEL M BERGH – HUMA BHABHA – BLACKTOWN NATIVE INSTITUTION KARIM BLEUS – ANNA BOGHIGUIAN – MOHAMED BOUROUISSA JOEL BRAY – BREAKING BREAD – ERIC BRIDGEMAN AND HAUS YURIYAL TANIA BRUGUERA – DR EMALANI CASE – VAJIKO CHACHKHIANI CLAUDIA CHIDIAC – CLUB ATE – COLECTIVO AYLLU – VICTORIA SANTA CRUZ – RANDY LEE CUTLER – JOSE DÁVILA – DEMIAN DINÉYAZHI AND R.I.S.E. – KARLA DICKENS – DOBBY – PRÉFÈTE DUFFAUT LÉULI ESHRĀGHI – ANDRE EUGENE – FAFSWAG – JES FAN LAFORTUNE FELIX – FIRST DOG ON THE MOON – BRIAN FUATA FUNPARK COALITION – NICHOLAS GALANIN – STUART GEDDES AND TRENT WALTER – FÁTIMA RODRIGO GONZALES – JOSEP GRAU-GARRIGA AMALA GROOM – RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH AND HESAM RAHMANIAN – LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN – AZIZ HAZARA LILY HIBBERD – SARAH HOUBOLT – INFORMATION AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE (I.C.E.) – LUCAS IHLEIN AND KIM WILLIAMS – ILTJA NTJARR A / NAMATJIRA SCHOOL OF ART – ARTHUR JAFA – HANNAH CATHERINE JONES – NAPOLEON JONES-HENDERSON – EMILY KARAKA BRONWYN KATZ – UNCLE JOHN KELLY AND RENA SHEIN LINDA KENNEDY – KYLIE KWONG – TAREK LAKHRISSI – LUKA LESSON BARBARA MCGRADY – IBRAHIM MAHAMA – KULIMOE’ANGA STONE MAKA NOŊGIRRŊA MARAWILI – TERESA MARGOLLES – AUNTY DEIDRE MARTIN MISHECK MASAMVU – KATARINA MATIASEK – MAYUNKIKI – JOHN MILLER AND ELISAPETA HETA – JOTA MOMBAÇA – MOSTAFF MUCHAWAYA PROF SIR ZANELE MUHOLI – THE MULKA PROJECT – MELANIE MUNUNGGURR-WILLIAMS – MZ RIZK – ELICURA CHIHUAILAF NAHUELPÁN NARDEAN – PAULO NAZARETH – S.J NORMAN – MUSA N NXUMALO SITTI OBESO – MANUEL OCAMPO – ERKAN ÖZGEN – PARRAMATTA FEMALE FACTORY PRECINCT AND PYT FAIRFIELD – TAQRALIK PARTRIDGE ROSANA PAULINO – PHASMAHAMMER (FKA JUSTIN SHOULDER) LAURE PROUVOST – BHENJI RA – READING OCEANIA – LISA REIHANA ANDREW REWALD – LUCIENNE RICKARD – RIPPLE EFFECT SHAHEED / WITNESS / KASHMIR – STARTTS – ADRIAN STIMSON STUDIO A – ANDERS SUNNA – SUOHPANTERROR – ELLE-MÁIJÁ TAILFEATHERS – LATAI TAUMOEPEAU – SEINI TAUMOEPEAU TENNANT CREEK BRIO – WARWICK THORNTON – GINA ATHENA ULYSSE AHMED UMAR – UNBOUND COLLECTIVE – MATIKA WILBUR KUNMANARA MUMU MIKE WILLIAMS – PEDRO WONAEAMIRRI

4 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 MESSAGE FROM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Yiradhu marang (good day) … NIRIN celebrates artworks by over 100 artists across NIRIN is an opportunity to see first-hand how Sydney six venues. Entry to these venues is free: Art Gallery and Australia is a world stage for arts and culture. It I welcome you all to three months of a world of art of New South Wales, Artspace, Campbelltown Arts demonstrates how artists have the power to inspire and creativity carved into many spaces around Sydney Centre, Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary and lead through difficult global times such as and connecting to places and people around Australia Art Australia and the National Art School. For the first environmental catastrophe, urgent states of conflict and and the world! time, artists from Nepal, Georgia, Afghanistan, Sudan reframing histories in a time when 2020 also shines NIRIN is a Wiradjuri (Aboriginal) word meaning edge and is and Ecuador will participate in the Biennale of Sydney, light on the Captain Cook commemorations in Australia. supported by themes that inspire us: as well as a large representation of First Nations artist There are many turning points in the world right now – – DHAAGUN (Earth: Sovereignty and Working Together); from around the world. From Brazilian performance artist come and be a part of this story and immerse yourself, – BAGARAY-BANG (Healing); Jota Mombaça, video artist Arthur Jafa from the USA, your family and friends in inspiration, change and – YIRAWY–DHURAY (Yam-Connection: Food); Mayunkiki sharing Ainu cultural practices from Japan, imagined futures. – GURRAY (Transformation); the collective Adrift Lab sharing international sciences on The Biennale of Sydney has been alive since 1973; – MURIGUWAL GIILAND (Different Stories); the impact of plastics in our oceans, and Ghanaian artist if you have not yet explored this international art event, – NGAWAAL-GUYUNGAN (Powerful-Ideas: The Power Ibrahim Mahama stages a huge immersive installation now is the time! of Objects); and, that reflects on global trade. – BILA (River: Environment). As well as these artists, the exhibition expands to an We at the Biennale of Sydney welcome you all! In times when we all crave new pathways and to make interconnected and grass roots program called NIRIN Mandaang guwu (happy, thank you), solid our own imaginations for the future, NIRIN brings WIR (edge of the sky). This program focuses on Sydney Brook Andrew together artists, performers, communities, scientists and as an expansive, global city comprised of vibrant, thinkers from around the globe to inspire and reflect on complex villages, and is a major partnership with the our world today. They will share artworks, insights, ideas Powerhouse Museum, and a series of activations and and actions that create opportunities for engagement creative partnerships with Blacktown Native Institution, and excitement and share global Indigenous knowledge Parramatta Female Factory Precinct and PYT Fairfield, systems. This is a time for all people from all walks of life Bankstown Poetry Slam, 4ESydney HipHop Festival, City to explore familiar, urgent and new issues that are created of Sydney Libraries, Randwick City Council, Inner West within expressions of art, culture and performance. Council, tertiary institutions around the country, community organisations and more.

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For the ultimate Biennale experience, enjoy a getaway or staycation right Discover the layered history, tranquil picnic spots and waterfront cafés. in the heart of Sydney Harbour. Enjoy the panoramic harbour views during Biennale and a program of guided Enjoy a short ferry ride to Cockatoo Island, see the exhibits and stay in and self-guided tours for all ages. See what’s on including: our heritage housing, apartments and campground. – Sunset Sessions, our live music series Use code BIENNALE when you book for a 20% discount on all accommodation. – Ghost tours including Ghostyard and the Overnight Fright Experience and much more. Visit cockatooisland.gov.au for more information

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5 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 BOOKINGS ACCESS TRANSPORT

Entry to the exhibition is free. Advanced booking The Biennale of Sydney is striving to create a stimulating We encourage you to use public transport when travelling is not required for admission to the exhibition. art experience for all to enjoy. Please contact us by phone to and from all Biennale of Sydney venues. To plan your on 02 8484 8702 or email at programs@ trip via public transport, visit transportnsw.info and use The Biennale of Sydney also presents a range biennaleofsydney.com.au to talk about what we can do Trip Planner or call 131 500. of accompanying free and ticketed events. to welcome you to the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. There are different ways to pay for your travel on public Tickets for all events can be purchased COMPANION CARD transport in NSW. through the Biennale of Sydney website at Companion Card holders qualify for a complimentary biennaleofsydney.art/events. ticket for their companion. You can use an Opal card, use your contactless credit, debit or mobile device or buy an Opal single ticket to pay For free events, you are encouraged to register your PODCASTS for travel. Opal cards are smartcard tickets you keep and attendance as space is limited at many venues. Select events and exhibition guides will be made available reuse to pay for travel on public transport. Once you have Priority will be given to attendees who have registered. as podcasts via Spotify. Follow us on Spotify to find out yours, just add value, then tap on and off to travel. You when podcasts are released. can use your Opal card on metro, train, bus, ferry and light rail services. Opal cards are the cheaper option if you are Tickets available from TRANSPORT entitled to travel with a Child/Youth Opal card, Gold Senior/ 10 AM SATURDAY, 1 FEBRUARY 2020 In New South Wales, the majority of public transport Pensioner Opal card or a Concession Opal card. services are accessible. Mobility aids including wheelchairs, scooters, walking frames, prams and If you have an American Express, Mastercard or Visa debit ONLINE strollers can safely board and travel on all metro and or credit card or a linked device, you can use it to pay Visit biennaleofsydney.art/events light rail services and most trains, buses and ferries. for travel by tapping on and tapping off at Opal readers. Assistance animals are permitted on all public transport in Just look for the contactless payment symbol. Adult Opal PHONE NSW. To plan your trip, visit transportnsw.info and use fare pricing applies, and you will receive Opal benefits, 02 8484 8702 (Monday–Friday, 10 am–4 pm) Trip Planner. You can see accessible service information including daily and weekly fare caps. provided in every trip plan and refine your accessible trip BOX OFFICE results by choosing options and selecting the accessibility If you use a credit card that was issued overseas, your The Biennale Information Hub will be open from check box. card issuer may charge you a foreign transaction fee. 10 am–5 pm daily on Cockatoo Island from 14 March – This will be one charge per day, not each time you travel. 8 June 2020. For specific information on accessibility at all Please check with your card issuer. Biennale venues, visit biennaleofsydney.art/access. CONCESSIONS Cycling is great way to see the Biennale of Sydney. Concession prices are available for children under the A network of integrated cycle paths connects parts of the age of 16, full-time students, Australian Health Care city. For more information, see cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au. Card holders and Centrelink pension cardholders. Proof of concession must be produced at events to obtain concession prices.

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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI POWERHOUSE HAERIZADEH AND HESAM RAHMANIAN: I PREFER TALKING TO MUSEUM DOCTORS ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE

4 ENTRY 3 For FREE general entry during installation 2 (2–6, 9–13 March) and exhibition (14 March – 8 June), 1 register online at maas.museum/biennaleofsydney

6 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 PROGRAM Gina Athena Ulysse: Our Path: Linda Kennedy aabaakwad 2020: An Equitable 10 am – 5 pm NIRIN Cockatoo Island, Biloela House Human Assertion 11 am – 5 pm Free BOOKINGS www.biennaleofsydney.art/events 12 pm – 1 pm Cockatoo Island Cockatoo Island Join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin $350 4-day pass DAY 1 Ramin Haerizadeh, Free (Bookings required) woman, every Sunday on Cockatoo $300 concession Island for a series of creative SATURDAY 14 MARCH Rokni Haerizadeh An Equitable Human Assertion is a Day 2 of a four-day Indigenous-led and Hesam Rahmanian: workshops that share culture, conference. site-specificrasanblaj (a gathering) history and politics, encouraging Bushwalk with I Prefer Talking of ideas, things, people and spirits. continued conversations at home. Artist Talks Aunty Deidre Martin to Doctors About Something Else Adrift Lab MzRizk: Ahla Wa Sahlan 12 pm – 1.30 pm 9 am – 10.30 am Art Gallery of NSW, Campbelltown 10 am – 5 pm 12 pm – 3.30 pm Dharawal National Park 10 am – 5 pm Arts Centre, Cockatoo Island, Cockatoo Island $15 (Bookings required) Powerhouse Museum National Art School, Museum of Contemporary Art Free (Bookings required) Free (Bookings required) Cell Block Theatre and National Art School Join Aunty Deidre Martin on a guided Adrift Lab, in collaboration with Free (Bookings required) Indigenous bushwalk through beautiful Ramin, Rokni and Hesam’s Free Detached Cultural Organisation, Dharawal National Park and learn collaborative work is created using A tribute to Lebanon, MzRizk’s Exhibiting artists will offer insight into highlight the impact of plastic pollution about the Australian landscape from a objects from the Powerhouse immersive audio work highlights the their artistic practice, influences and on oceans and marine life by fostering Koori perspective. The walk traverses Museum’s collection. Incorporating importance of music and sound in the inspiration for the works on display. a culture of curiosity expressed the O’Hares Creek Lookout and is and disorganising artefacts, the artists construct of cultural identity. Visit our website for the full program through art, science and education. an inclusive walk where guests of all make a sweeping arc across themes of artist talks in each venue. Visit their space on Cockatoo Island abilities and ages are welcome. of grief, body and healing. Their for a glimpse into their research and Ramin, Rokni and Hesam installation also includes the video For Caspian Sea by Iranian artists work on Lord Howe Island. 10 am – 5 pm NIRIN HAIVETA: NIRIN HAIVETA Javad Azimi and Hamid Hosseini. Powerhouse Museum Performance 10 am Visitors are also invited to view the Artist Talks Free (Bookings required) 6 pm – 8 pm Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to collaborative installation process 11.30 am – 4 pm An evolving installation using objects Cockatoo Island Wharf Cockatoo Island Wharf from 2–6 and 9–13 March. Art Gallery of NSW, Campbelltown from the Powerhouse Museum’s $30 / $25 concession Presented by the Powerhouse Museum. 2 pm Arts Centre, Cockatoo Island, collection. Cockatoo Island Wharf to Visit our website for the program. Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney Olympic Park Wharf NIRIN NGAAY and National Art School Free (Bookings required) 10 am – 6 pm Free (Bookings required) NIRIN HAIVETA will transport Aesop The Rocks Exhibiting artists including Karla aabaakwad 2020: NIRIN Western Sydney residents from Free Dickens, The Mulka Project, Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to Nicholas Galanin, Teresa Margolles, SATURDAY 14 MARCH – TUESDAY 17 MARCH Cockatoo Island for free every Artists Trent Walter and Stuart Hannah Catherine Jones, Joël Sydney Opera House, Cockatoo Island and Saturday. Interpreting and abstracting Geddes present a visual installation Andrianomearisoa, Tennant Creek Polynesian, Melanesian and of the NIRIN NGAAY artist book in Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Brio and Lisa Reihana will offer insight Micronesian tattoo motifs, Melbourne Aesop’s store in The Rocks. $350 4-day pass into their artistic practice, influences arts and cultural collective BE., in $300 concession and inspiration for the works on collaboration with Rosman Cruises, Guided Tours: display. Visit our website for the full have created a vessel that celebrates Cockatoo Island program of artist talks in each venue. women’s mark-making through visual representation and interpretation. 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Cockatoo Island, Information Hub In Conversation: Free (Bookings required) Brian Fuata: Léuli Eshrãghi and APPARITIONAL Join our tour guides in delving deeper Chantelle Otten into the artists projects and find out 2 pm – 3 pm CHARLATAN – MINOR more about the themes behind NIRIN. APPEARANCES (2020) Cockatoo Island, Building 124 Free 10 am – 10.30 am NIRIN Yarn: MCA steps Sexual health and wellness expert Free Dion Beasley with Chantelle Otten and NIRIN artist Léuli Eshrãghi will unpack the Brian Fuata’s improvisations use Johanna Bell perceived Western fragility towards aabaakwad (it clears after a storm) is a four-day event focused on the image of the ghost as narrative 11 am – 12 pm sex and pleasure and reveal new shifting the current global interest in Indigenous arts to be one that is departure; each site-specific Powerhouse Museum ways of seeing sex. For ages 18+ Indigenous-led. This event is centred on informal, in-depth conversations performance opens portals that $30 / $25 concession (licensed venue). between international Indigenous and other artists, curators and scholars. hang between truth and fiction. Dion Beasley – an artist who is Supported by babylikestopony. The event features Wanda Nanibush, Adrian Stimson, Vernon Ah impacted by a deafness and muscular Kee, Lisa Reihana, Biung Ismahasan and more. Experience dynamic NIRIN Performances dystrophy – and author Johanna Bell aabaakwad 2020: NIRIN dialogue examining themes, materials and experiences in contemporary 10 am – 11 am hold an illustrated conversation about Indigenous art practice globally over four days at Sydney’s leading arts 5 pm – 9 pm the making of their Cheeky Dogs and culture institutions. Presented with Art Gallery of Ontario, Museum of Aesop Sydney Sydney Opera House books, the joys and discomforts of Contemporary Art and Sydney Opera House. Free $350 4-day pass cross-cultural collaboration and what’s Intimate performances by NIRIN $300 concession possible when you chip away at the artists held in Aesop Sydney’s edges of entrenched practice to create aabaakwad (it clears after a storm) is a amphitheatre. NIRIN NGAAY DAY 3 new, hybrid forms of storytelling. four-day event focused on shifting the 10 am – 6 pm Presented by the Powerhouse Museum. current global interest in Indigenous MONDAY 16 MARCH arts to be one that is Indigenous-led. Aesop The Rocks Free This event is centred on informal, in-depth conversations between A visual installation of the NIRIN NIRIN NGAAY Indigenous artists, curators and NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store 10 am – 6 pm NIRIN YARN WITH DION BEASLEY scholars from Australia, New Zealand, in The Rocks. Aesop The Rocks SATURDAY 14 MARCH the United States and Canada. Free Presented with Art Gallery of Ontario, 11 am – 12 pm Artists Trent Walter and Stuart Museum of Contemporary Art and NIRIN HAIVETA: Geddes present a visual installation Powerhouse Museum Sydney Opera House. Performance of the NIRIN NGAAY artist book in $30 / $25 concession 10.30 am – 11 am Aesop’s store in The Rocks. Commissioner’s Steps Free DAY 2 Guided Tours: Gather by the sea as Pasifika voices Cockatoo Island SUNDAY 15 MARCH from Western Sydney bring NIRIN HAIVETA to life. Presented with BE 11 am and 2 pm and Rosman Cruises. Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Brian Fuata: Free (Bookings required)

APPARITIONAL Guided Tours: Join our tour guides in delving CHARLATAN – MINOR Cockatoo Island deeper into the artist projects, and APPEARANCES (2020) find out more about the themes 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm behind NIRIN. 10 am – 10.30 am Cockatoo Island, Information Hub MCA steps Free (Bookings required) Free aabaakwad 2020: Dion Beasley is an artist who lives in Tennant Creek. Impacted by Join our tour guides in delving deeper deafness and muscular dystrophy, Dion uses drawing to communicate with A site-specific improvisational into the artist projects, and find out NIRIN the world. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary performance. more about the themes behind NIRIN. 11 am – 8 pm Art and the National Gallery of Australia and, for eight years, Dion has Museum of Contemporary Art collaborated with Darwin-based author Johanna Bell on the Cheeky Dogs Australia picture book series. In this yarn, Dion and Johanna share an illustrated $350 4-day pass conversation about the making of their books, the joys and discomforts of $300 concession

cross-cultural collaboration and what’s possible when you chip away at the Day 3 of a four-day Indigenous-led edges of entrenched practice to create new, hybrid forms of storytelling. conference. Presented by the Powerhouse Museum. 7 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 PROGRAM DAY 6 DAY 8 Breaking Bread: THURSDAY 19 MARCH SATURDAY 21 MARCH Cross Winds / Cross Currents

BOOKINGS www.biennaleofsydney.art/events Guided Tours: Guided Tours: 12 pm – 2.30 pm Sydney Observatory La Perouse La Perouse Free (Bookings required) 9.30 am – 11 am 9.30 am – 11 am PRIVATE TOURS: NIRIN Inspired by an optimism for new La Perouse, Cann Park La Perouse, Cann Park utopias, Breaking Bread collaborate SATURDAY 14 MARCH – MONDAY 8 JUNE $10 $10 with a range of Sydney-based Cockatoo Island Take a guided tour from the Take a guided tour from the native practitioners who share their ethos $250 per group (max. 25 people) native bush and coastline of La bush and coastline of La Perouse of food and food sharing as a Perouse (Guriwal) to La Perouse (Guriwal) to La Perouse Museum. generative activity that can birth new Museum and learn about the understandings. local Indigenous community’s NIRIN HAIVETA Presented by the Powerhouse unbroken connection to Country. Museum and the Triangle Network. 10 am Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to Tony Albert: Cockatoo Island Wharf Sunset Sessions Healing Land, 2 pm 5 pm – 8 pm Remembering Country Cockatoo Island Wharf to Cockatoo Island Sydney Olympic Park Wharf 10 am – 2 pm $30 (Children under 12 free) Get the most out of your visit to the Biennale of Sydney by booking a Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island Watch the sunset over the harbour private tour of the works on Cockatoo Island. Our tour guides will delve Free NIRIN HAIVETA will transport Western while enjoying two hours of live deeper into the artists projects and the themes of NIRIN. Private tours run Sydney residents from Sydney acoustic music by Taj Ralph and for approximately 2 hours and can be tailored for any professional or social Share thoughts and wishes for an Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo Elizabeth Fader. group. Contact the Biennale team to discuss your day at the Biennale. alternative narrative for children Island for free every Saturday. and young people who were – and Presented by Harbour Trust. are – incarcerated, as part of the DAY 4 ARTplay revegetation project at the Blacktown Tony Albert: Talking Circles Native Institution. Healing Land, TUESDAY 17 MARCH 10 am – 11 am and 11 am – 12 pm 4.30 pm – 6.30 pm Museum of Contemporary Art Remembering Country Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Australia: Level 3 NIRIN NGAAY Free (Bookings required) NIRIN NGAAY 10 am – 2 pm $7 per family / Free entry for 10 am – 6 pm Cockatoo Island Gather around a campfire setting – a 10 am – 6 pm MCA Family Members Aesop The Rocks Free physical and cultural space for women Aesop The Rocks Free – sharing stories, remembering lived Engage all the senses in this weekly Share thoughts and wishes for an Free experiences and resilience, and creative play session for children 5 A visual installation of the NIRIN alternative narrative for children anticipating a future for all Australians. A visual installation of the NIRIN years and under. Get ready to explore NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store and young people who were – and Presented with Parramatta Female NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store a range of exhibition-related games in The Rocks. are – incarcerated, as part of the Factory Precinct, PYT Fairfield and in The Rocks. and toys, settle into the story corner, revegetation project at the Blacktown read a book and join in at music time. Darug Tribal Aboriginal Association. Guided Tours: Native Institution. abaakwad 2020: NIRIN Cockatoo Island 10 am – 6.30 pm Tony Albert: NIRIN NGAAY Healing Land, 11 am and 2 pm Museum of Contemporary Art Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 10 am – 6 pm DAY 9 Australia Remembering Country Free (Bookings required) Aesop The Rocks SUNDAY 22 MARCH $350 4-day pass 10 am – 2 pm Free Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. $300 concession Cockatoo Island A visual installation of the NIRIN Day 4 of an Indigenous-led conference. Free Guided Tours: NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store Tony Albert invites visitors to his in The Rocks. La Perouse Guided Tour: Parramatta greenhouse to write on paper DAY 7 9.30 am – 11 am Female Factory Precinct implanted with Kangaroo grass seeds. La Perouse, Cann Park Sharing thoughts and wishes for an FRIDAY 20 MARCH Guided Tours: 11 am $10 alternative narrative for children and Cockatoo Island Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Take a guided tour from the native young people who were – and are 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm (Bookings required) Guided Tours: bush and coastline of La Perouse Free – incarcerated, the letters will form Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Cockatoo Island (Guriwal) to La Perouse Museum. The Parramatta Female Factory part of the revegetation project at the Free (Bookings required) Precinct is a place of significant Blacktown Native Institution. 11 am and 2 pm history; its past is a maze of Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Our Path: Linda Kennedy stories and questions about the Free (Bookings required) 10 am – 5 pm NIRIN NGAAY early colony, and the vulnerable Cockatoo Island, Biloela House 10 am – 6 pm Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. women and children who were Free confined to its various institutions Aesop The Rocks from 1821 to 1983. It has a special Free Join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin woman, every Sunday on Cockatoo association with Forgotten Australians A visual installation of the NIRIN Island for a series of creative and the Stolen Generations. NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store SARAH HOUBOLT’S AUDIO WALKS workshops that share culture, in The Rocks. SATURDAY 14 MARCH – MONDAY 8 JUNE history and politics, encouraging Guided Tours: Any time on Spotify (tiny.cc/biennalesydneyspotify) continued conversations at home. Guided Tours: Cockatoo Island Art Gallery of NSW, Artspace and National Art School 11 am and 2 pm Cockatoo Island Free MzRizk: Ahla Wa Sahlan Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 11 am and 2 pm 10 am – 5 pm Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island, Information Hub National Art School, Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Free (Bookings required) Cell Block Theatre

Free Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. In Conversation: A tribute to Lebanon, MzRizk’s Léuli Eshrãghi and Art After Hours immersive audio work highlights the importance of music and sound in Chantelle Otten 5 pm – 10 pm the construct of cultural identity. 6 pm – 7 pm Art Gallery of NSW Physical theatre performer and access advocate Sarah Houbolt responds Free to the streets of Sydney through a personal, multi-sensory lens. Funny babylikestopony store, Darlinghurst and experiential, Sarah layers sound and narrative in a poetic account of NIRIN NGAAY $30 / $25 concession See NIRIN after hours and enjoy what life is like, and what it could be, as she traverses her side of the street 10 am – 6 pm Sexual health and wellness expert a special edition of talks, tours and between the Art Gallery of NSW, Artspace and National Art School. Aesop The Rocks Chantelle Otten and NIRIN artist music celebrating the art and artists Free Léuli Eshrãghi unpack Western ideas in the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. of sex and pleasure. A visual installation of the NIRIN Life (and Death) Youth-led Guided Tours: NIRIN Film Program NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store in the Abstract 12 pm – 12.30 pm and 2 pm – 2.30 pm in The Rocks. 8.30 pm 1.30 pm – 3 pm Museum of Contemporary Art Golden Age Cinema and Bar Australia DAY 5 $22.50 / $18 concession Abel Tasman Village, Chester Hill Guided Tours: Free WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island The beautifully restored art deco I.C.E. invites you to exercise, dance The MCA Young Guides are a group cinema inside Surry Hills’ heritage- 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm and make art with frail and dementia- of 15 to 21-year old volunteers who listed Paramount House will host Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Guided Tour: affected residents of Abel Tasman are trained to give public tours and three evening screenings during Free (Bookings required) Campbelltown Arts Centre Village. Led by artists Naomi Oliver, bring their unique perspectives to the the Biennale. Visit our website for Museum’s exhibitions and collections. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. 10 am – 11 am Liam Benson and Victoria Harbutt, film listings Join this smart, thought-provoking Campbelltown Arts Centre DJ Black President and Care Manager, tours exploring the themes of NIRIN at Free Sophia Markwell, the program contemplates and honours existence the MCA. Meet in the foyer – look out Join our guided tour of the works in and oblivion (your own). Experience for the green ‘Tour Starts Here’ sign! the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. your future. No watchers please.

8 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 Breaking Bread: Guided Tour: are – incarcerated, as part of the Auslan Tour DAY 14 revegetation project at the Blacktown Cross Winds / Campbelltown Arts Centre 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm Native Institution. FRIDAY 27 MARCH Cross Currents 10 am – 11 am Art Gallery of NSW Campbelltown Arts Centre Free (Bookings required) 12 pm – 2.30 pm NIRIN NGAAY NIRIN NGAAY Free Join an artist from the deaf community Sydney Observatory 10 am – 6 pm for a tour of the 22nd Biennale of 10 am – 6 pm Free (Bookings required) Join our guided tour of the works in Aesop The Rocks Sydney. Delivered in Auslan and Aesop The Rocks the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Inspired by an optimism for new Free interpreted into English, this tour is for Free utopias, Breaking Bread collaborate visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing. A visual installation of the NIRIN with a range of Sydney-based A visual installation of the NIRIN ARTplay NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store practitioners who share their ethos NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store in The Rocks. of food and food sharing as a 10 am – 11 am and 11 am – 12 pm in The Rocks. NIRIN Film Program Museum of Contemporary Art generative activity that can birth new 8.30 pm Australia: Level 3 understandings. Guided Tours: QT Sydney, Screening Room Guided Tours: $7 per family / Free entry for MCA Presented by the Powerhouse Cockatoo Island $30 screening Cockatoo Island Museum and the Triangle Network. Family Members 11 am and 2 pm Beneath the heritage façade of the 11 am and 2 pm Engage all the senses in this Cockatoo Island, Information Hub QT Sydney lies an historic gem – Cockatoo Island, Information Hub weekly creative play session Free (Bookings required) a 1930s theatrette which will screen Free (Bookings required) for children 5 years and under. films during the Biennale. Visit our Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. DAY 10 Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. website for film listings MONDAY 23 MARCH

BLACKTOWN NATIVE INSTITUTION GATHERINGS NIRIN NGAAY DAY 13 Life (and Death) 10 am – 6 pm SUNDAY 22 MARCH, 5 APRIL AND 3 MAY THURSDAY 26 MARCH Aesop The Rocks 10 am – 1 pm in the Abstract Free Blacktown Native Institution 1.30 pm – 3 pm A visual installation of the NIRIN Free Tony Albert: Abel Tasman Village, Chester Hill NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store Healing Land, Free (Bookings required) in The Rocks. Remembering Country I.C.E. invites you to exercise, dance 10 am – 2 pm and make art with frail and dementia- Guided Tours: Cockatoo Island affected residents of Abel Tasman Cockatoo Island Free Village. Led by artists Naomi Oliver, Liam Benson and Victoria Harbutt, 11 am and 2 pm Share thoughts and wishes for an DJ Black President and Care alternative narrative for children Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Manager, Sophia Markwell, and young people who were – and Free (Bookings required) the program contemplates and are – incarcerated, as part of the honours existence and oblivion Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. revegetation project at the Blacktown (your own). Experience your Native Institution. future. No watchers please.

Nura (Country) speaks. Guided by her, as a site of Dreaming, she is life, NIRIN NGAAY DAY 11 ceremony and songlines. She represents identity, traditions, culture, 4ESydney 10 am – 6 pm struggle and survival. She is resilient. Through ceremony and art, Country HipHop Festival TUESDAY 24 MARCH Aesop The Rocks will rejuvenate, regenerate, heal and resonate; a continued and unbroken 7 pm – 9 pm Free connection to Nura as Dharug people. The Blacktown Native Institution Cockatoo Island, Building 124 site will host a series of public gatherings to promote the site and its history NIRIN NGAAY A visual installation of the NIRIN $30 / $25 concession 10 am – 6 pm and encourage community cohesion. NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store in The Rocks. The 4ESydney HipHop Festival will Aesop The Rocks light up Cockatoo Island using the Free NIRIN GATHERINGS power of words to impart global Guided Tours: A visual installation of the NIRIN SATURDAY 6 JUNE – SUNDAY 7 JUNE truths. The program amplifies NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store 3 pm – 8 pm and 10 am – 2 pm Cockatoo Island important voices like Rhyan Clapham in The Rocks. aka DOBBY, who journeys back to Blacktown Native Institution site 11 am and 2 pm Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Brewarrina in north west New South Free Wales to connect to his family’s Guided Tours: Free (Bookings required) This series of community events will culminate in a ceremonial gathering history in River Story, Nardean’s Cockatoo Island and unveiling of works by Dharug artists Leanne Tobin, Vanessa Possum, Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. powerful declaration of “The New 11 am and 2 pm Leanne Mulgo Watson, Adam King, Julie Bukari Webb and Corina Era” in Western Sydney, and Luka Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Wiali Norman. Supported by Blacktown City Council, Create NSW Reading NIRIN: Lesson’s poetic assault on the city in Free (Bookings required) and Blacktown Arts in conjunction with the Crown Resorts Foundation. Where There’s Smoke. For ages 18+ NIRIN NGAAY (licensed venue). Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. 6 pm – 8 pm Darling Square Library Free (Bookings required) Tony Albert: Art After Hours Healing Land, 5 pm – 10 pm The NIRIN NGAAY reading DAY 12 Art Gallery of NSW group is envisioned as an open, Remembering Country WEDNESDAY Free interdisciplinary discursive space. 10 am – 2 pm The session is an opportunity to 25 MARCH See NIRIN after hours and enjoy a Cockatoo Island engage with the innovative texts, special edition of talks, tours and Free writers and artists featured in the music celebrating the art and artists Biennale reader, NIRIN NGAAY. Share thoughts and wishes for an in the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Presented by the City of Sydney alternative narrative for children and supported by Aesop and The and young people who were – and Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.

9 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 PROGRAM DAY 17 Tony Albert: MONDAY 30 MARCH Healing Land, powerful declaration of “The New Era” in Western Sydney, and Luka Remembering Country

BOOKINGS www.biennaleofsydney.art/events Lesson’s poetic assault on the city in Guided Tours: 10 am – 2 pm Cockatoo Island Where There’s Smoke. For ages 18+ Cockatoo Island DAY 15 Youth-led Guided Tours: (licensed venue). Free 11 am and 2 pm 12 pm – 12.30 pm and 2 pm – 2.30 pm Share thoughts and wishes for an SATURDAY 28 MARCH Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Museum of Contemporary Art alternative narrative for children Free (Bookings required) Australia and young people who were – and NIRIN HAIVETA Free DAY 16 Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. are – incarcerated, as part of the

10 am The MCA Young Guides are a group SUNDAY 29 MARCH revegetation project at the Blacktown Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to of 15 to 21-year old volunteers who Native Institution. Cockatoo Island Wharf are trained to give public tours and 2 pm bring their unique perspectives to the True Nourishment DAY 18 Guided Tours: Cockatoo Island Wharf to Museum’s exhibitions and collections. 8.30 am – 2.30 pm Sydney Olympic Park Wharf TUESDAY 31 MARCH Cockatoo Island Join this smart, thought-provoking Wayside Chapel 11 am and 2 pm Free (Bookings required) tours exploring the themes of NIRIN at Pay What You Can ticket (All ticket Cockatoo Island, Information Hub NIRIN HAIVETA will transport Western the MCA. Meet in the foyer – look out sales donated to the Wayside Chapel) Tours for Tots Sydney residents from Sydney for the green ‘Tour Starts Here’ sign! Free (Bookings required) As ambassador for Wayside 10.30 am – 11.30 am Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo Chapel, chef Kylie Kwong invites Art Gallery of NSW Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Island for free every Saturday. Projections #2 + NIRIN $30 per child (with one adult) the Biennale audience to explore 2 pm the concept of ‘true nourishment’ Does your pre-schooler love to make NIRIN Performances Art Gallery of NSW through preparing food, serving art? Develop their creativity and 10 am – 11 am Free the charity’s visitors, and sharing improve fine motor skills through Aesop Sydney respect for the people, stories and this fun artmaking tour of the View Khalik Allah’s acclaimed film places behind the food that we eat. Free Gallery. For ages 3–5, with an adult. Black Mother (2018), a spiritual Intimate performances by NIRIN journey through Jamaica. Our Path: Linda Kennedy artists held in Aesop Sydney’s amphitheatre. 10 am – 5 pm NIRIN Film Program Cockatoo Island, Biloela House TRUE NOURISHMENT 2 pm – 4 pm Free Tony Albert: SUNDAY, 29 MARCH AND 3 MAY Campbelltown Arts Centre Join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin Healing Land, $10 8.30 am – 2.30 pm woman, every Sunday on Cockatoo Remembering Country Visit our website for film listings. Island for a series of creative Wayside Chapel 10 am – 2 pm workshops that share culture, PWYC ticket (all ticket sales donated to the Wayside Chapel) Cockatoo Island Sunset Sessions history and politics, encouraging Free continued conversations at home. 5 pm – 8 pm Share thoughts and wishes for an Cockatoo Island alternative narrative for children $30 (Children under 12 free) MzRizk: Ahla Wa Sahlan and young people who were – and Watch the sunset over the harbour 10 am – 5 pm are – incarcerated, as part of the while enjoying two hours of live National Art School, revegetation project at the Blacktown acoustic music by Ella Haber with Cell Block Theatre Native Institution. Free Indira Elias. Presented by Harbour Trust. A tribute to Lebanon, MzRizk’s NIRIN NGAAY immersive audio work highlights the 10 am – 6 pm 4ESydney importance of music and sound in the Aesop The Rocks construct of cultural identity. HipHop Festival Free 7 pm – 9 pm A visual installation of the NIRIN NIRIN NGAAY As ambassador for Wayside Chapel, chef Kylie Kwong invites the Biennale Cockatoo Island, Building 124 NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store 10 am – 6 pm audience to explore the concept of ‘true nourishment’ through preparing $30 / $25 concession in The Rocks. Aesop The Rocks food, serving the charity’s visitors, and sharing respect for the people, The 4ESydney HipHop Festival will Free stories and places behind the food that we eat. Held on a Sunday – a day light up Cockatoo Island using the of rest and reflection – this transformative mealtime experience will involve Guided Tours: power of words to impart global A visual installation of the NIRIN ceremony, storytelling, and shared gratitude, with sustainable food and Cockatoo Island truths. The program amplifies NGAAY artist book in Aesop’s store native ingredients as the binding force of this encounter. in The Rocks. 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm important voices like Rhyan Clapham Supported by Kate Mills. Cockatoo Island, Information Hub aka DOBBY, who journeys back to Brewarrina in north west New South Free (Bookings required) Guided Tours: Wales to connect to his family’s Cockatoo Island Guided Tour: Parramatta Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. history in River Story, Nardean’s MCA Sounds on Female Factory Precinct 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm the Terrace Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 11 am NIRIN NGAAY Free (Bookings required) Parramatta Female Factory Precinct 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm Museum of Contemporary Art Free (Bookings required) 9 MARCH – 29 MARCH Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Australia: Level 4 10 am – 6 pm Discover the stories and Free Aesop The Rocks NIRIN Film Program history of this significant site. Experience the magic of Circular Free 4 pm Quay from the prime vantage point of The Old Clare Hotel Guided Tours: the MCA Terrace. Sit back and relax Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island with live music (bands and musicians will be announced shortly). The Old Clare Hotel presents a 11 am and 2 pm Enjoy drinks and nibbles from the series of powerful short films by Cockatoo Island, Information Hub MCA Cafe’s seasonal menu and then artists including Mayaw Biho Free (Bookings required) check out NIRIN til 9pm – perfect for (Taiwan) and Raphaela Rosella馬 躍‧ Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. those who can’t visit the gallery during (Australia).比吼 working hours. 4ESydney HipHop Festival DAY 19 7 pm – 9 pm WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL DAY 20 Cockatoo Island, Building 124 THURSDAY 2 APRIL $30 / $25 concession Guided Tour: NGAAY is a Wiradjuri word meaning ‘see’. Published as part of the 22nd The 4ESydney HipHop Festival will Campbelltown Arts Centre Tony Albert: Biennale of Sydney, NIRIN NGAAY is a space where many voices in one light up Cockatoo Island using the 10 am – 11 am Healing Land, textual or visual form or another are free to tell their stories. For three power of words to impart global Campbelltown Arts Centre weeks, printmaker Trent Walter and designer Stuart Geddes will present truths. The program amplifies Remembering Country important voices like Rhyan Clapham Free a visual installation of this artist book in Aesop’s store in The Rocks. 10 am – 2 pm aka DOBBY, who journeys back to Join our guided tour of the works in Cockatoo Island RELATIVE PERMANENCE Brewarrina in north west New South the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Free Wales to connect to his family’s Share thoughts and wishes for an SATURDAY 14 MARCH – MONDAY 8 JUNE history in River Story, Nardean’s alternative narrative for children 9 am – 7 pm powerful declaration of “The New ARTplay Era” in Western Sydney, and Luka 10 am – 11 am and 11 am – 12 pm and young people who were – and Aesop Sydney Lesson’s poetic assault on the city in Museum of Contemporary Art are – incarcerated, as part of the revegetation project at the Blacktown Free Where There’s Smoke. For ages 18+ Australia: Level 3 Native Institution. Evolving seasonally, the Autumn digital art exhibition at Aesop Sydney is (licensed venue). $7 per family / Free entry for titled Relative Permanence, and draws on the central themes of NIRIN – MCA Family Members of coming together to collectively reflect and give visibility to the challenges we face. Presented by Aesop. Engage all the senses in this weekly creative play session for children 5 years and under. 10 I descend from the central region of Sudan, the land of the ancient kingdom of Kush and the black pharaohs. In Sudan we say: ‘Dying within a group of like-minded people is a feast.’ I feel I am in within my group. – Ahmed Umar

Ahmed Umar, 2019. Photograph: Ahmed Umar 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 PROGRAM Tony Albert: DAY 28 Healing Land, FRIDAY 10 APRIL share culture, history and politics, encouraging continued conversations Remembering Country

BOOKINGS www.biennaleofsydney.art/events at home. 10 am – 2 pm Guided Tours: Cockatoo Island Cockatoo Island Guided Tours: NIRIN Performances Free Guided Tours: 11 am and 2 pm Cockatoo Island 10 am – 11 am Share thoughts and wishes for an Cockatoo Island Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 11 am and 2 pm Aesop Sydney alternative narrative for young people 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Free who were – and are – incarcerated, as Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Free (Bookings required) Intimate performances by NIRIN part of the revegetation project at the Free (Bookings required) Blacktown Native Institution. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. artists held in Aesop Sydney’s amphitheatre. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour.

Brian Fuata: DAY 21 Tony Albert: TO COOK COOK OR NOT FRIDAY 3 APRIL Healing Land, APPARITIONAL WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL Remembering Country CHARLATAN – MINOR APPEARANCES (2020) 6 pm – 9 pm Guided Tours: 10 am – 2 pm Cockatoo Island 1 pm – 3 pm Sydney Town Hall, Centennial Hall Cockatoo Island National Art School, Free $30 / $25 concession 11 am and 2 pm Cell Block Theatre Share thoughts and wishes for an Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Free alternative narrative for children Free (Bookings required) and young people who were – and A site-specific improvisational Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. are – incarcerated, as part of the performance. revegetation project at the Blacktown Life (and Death) Native Institution. Bankstown Poetry Slam in the Abstract 7 pm – 9 pm 1.30 pm – 3 pm Guided Tours: Cockatoo Island, Turbine Hall Abel Tasman Village, Chester Hill Cockatoo Island $30 / $25 concession

Free (Bookings required) 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Bankstown’s iconic poetry slam takes I.C.E. invites you to exercise, dance Cockatoo Island, Information Hub residence on Cockatoo Island for an and make art with frail and dementia- Free (Bookings required) electrifying night of spoken word from On the 250th anniversary of Cook’s landing, we challenge the dominant affected residents of Abel Tasman Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Western Sydney’s best writer-poets. narrative that the arrival of a British sailor who pillaged his way across the Village. Led by artists Naomi Oliver, Pacific is a more impressive story than the 60,000 years of continuous Liam Benson and Victoria Harbutt, Bankstown Poetry Slam history of Australia’s Indigenous people. On 29 April 2020, First Nations DJ Black President and Care artists will take centre stage in one of our most historic buildings – Sydney Manager, Sophia Markwell, 7 pm – 9 pm DAY 24 Town Hall – to flip this flawed history and debate the question: ‘To cook the program contemplates and Cockatoo Island, Turbine Hall MONDAY 6 APRIL Cook or not?’ Featuring Wesley Enoch, Brook Andrew, Joel Bray, honours existence and oblivion $30 / $25 concession Melanie Mununggurr-Williams, DOBBY and Ripple Effect. (your own). Experience your Bankstown’s iconic poetry slam takes Supported by The Balnaves Foundation. future. No watchers please. residence on Cockatoo Island for an Access Workshop electrifying night of spoken word from 11 am – 12.30 pm Bankstown Poetry Slam Western Sydney’s best writer-poets. Art Gallery of NSW Guided Tours: DAY 29 7 pm – 9 pm Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island SATURDAY 11 APRIL Cockatoo Island, Turbine Hall An artist-led experience for adults $30 / $25 concession 11 am and 2 pm with specific needs, and their Bankstown’s iconic poetry slam takes DAY 23 companions, allowing participants Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Bushwalk with residence on Cockatoo Island for an SUNDAY 5 APRIL to express their own creativity in Free (Bookings required) Aunty Deidre Martin an exciting and encouraging way. electrifying night of spoken word from Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. 9 am – 10.30 am Western Sydney’s best writer-poets. The Gulbangali Dharawal National Park Dharug Nura Project: Guided Tours: NIRIN Film Program $15 (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island Community Gathering 8.30 pm Join Aunty Deidre Martin on a guided DAY 22 10 am – 1 pm 11 am and 2 pm QT Sydney, Screening Room Indigenous bushwalk through beautiful Cockatoo Island, Information Hub $30 screening Oakhurst, Blacktown Native Institution Dharawal National Park and learn SATURDAY 4 APRIL Free (Bookings required) about the Australian landscape from a Free Visit our website for film listings. Koori perspective. The walk traverses Through ceremony and art, Country Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. NIRIN HAIVETA the O’Hares Creek Lookout and is will rejuvenate, regenerate, heal and an inclusive walk where guests of all 10 am resonate. The gathering will include abilities and ages are welcome. Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to a children’s workshop and men’s DAY 27 Cockatoo Island Wharf and women’s cultural yarning circles. DAY 25 THURSDAY 9 APRIL 2 pm TUESDAY 7 APRIL NIRIN HAIVETA Cockatoo Island Wharf to Our Path: Linda Kennedy 10 am Sydney Olympic Park Wharf Tony Albert: Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to Free (Bookings required) 10 am – 5 pm Guided Tours: Healing Land, Cockatoo Island Wharf Cockatoo Island, Biloela House NIRIN HAIVETA will transport Cockatoo Island Remembering Country 2 pm Free Cockatoo Island Wharf to Western Sydney residents from 11 am and 2 pm 10 am – 2 pm Sydney Olympic Park Wharf Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to Join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin woman, Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Cockatoo Island Cockatoo Island for free every Free (Bookings required) every Sunday on Cockatoo Island for Free (Bookings required) Free Saturday. a series of creative workshops that NIRIN HAIVETA will transport Western Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Share thoughts and wishes for an Sydney residents from Sydney alternative narrative for children Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo and young people who were – and Island for free every Saturday. GINA ATHENA ULYSSE are – incarcerated, as part of the SATURDAY 14 MARCH DAY 26 revegetation project at the Blacktown Native Institution. Tony Albert: 12 pm – 1 pm WEDNESDAY 8 APRIL Healing Land, Cockatoo Island Guided Tours: Remembering Country (Bookings required) Free Guided Tour: Cockatoo Island 10 am – 2 pm Cockatoo Island Campbelltown Arts Centre 11 am and 2 pm Free 10 am – 11 am Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Campbelltown Arts Centre Free (Bookings required) Share thoughts and wishes for an Free alternative narrative for children Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. and young people who were – and Join our guided tour of the works in are – incarcerated, as part of the the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Reading NIRIN: revegetation project at the Blacktown NIRIN NGAAY Native Institution. ARTplay 6 pm – 8 pm 10 am – 11 am and 11 am – 12 pm Darling Square Library Guided Tours: Museum of Contemporary Art Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island Australia: Level 3 An Equitable Human Assertion is a site-specificrasanblaj (a gathering) The NIRIN NGAAY reading group $7 per family / Free entry for MCA 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm of ideas, things, people and spirits. This installation-performance by Gina is an opportunity to engage with the Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Family Members Athena Ulysse – a feminist interdisciplinary artist – cautiously assembles innovative texts, writers and artists Free (Bookings required) physical and sonic materials in a movement toward wholeness and a featured in the Biennale reader, Engage all the senses in this weekly Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. quest for beauty in nature, despite our human tendency to denigrate the creative play session for children 5 NIRIN NGA AY. earth and each other. years and under.

12 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 Youth-led Guided Tours: Brian Fuata: Art in Action 12 pm – 12.30 pm and 2 pm – 2.30 pm APPARITIONAL MOVERS & MAKERS 10 am – 5 pm Museum of Contemporary Art CHARLATAN – MINOR Cockatoo Island SATURDAY 23 MAY Australia APPEARANCES (2020) Free Free 10 am – 6 pm 1 pm – 3 pm Visit our website for daily family art The MCA Young Guides are a group National Art School, Parramatta Artists’ Studios activities. of 15 to 21-year old volunteers who Cell Block Theatre Free (Bookings required) are trained to give public tours and Free School Holiday bring their unique perspectives to the Museum’s exhibitions and collections. A site-specific improvisational Workshop: Join this smart, thought-provoking performance. Better Together tours exploring the themes of NIRIN at 10.30 am – 1 pm the MCA. Meet in the foyer – look out Museum of Contemporary Art for the green ‘Tour Starts Here’ sign! Australia: Level 3 DAY 31 $10 / $7.50 MCA Members and Brian Fuata: MONDAY 13 APRIL concession Free for MCA Family APPARITIONAL CHARLATAN – MINOR Art in Action Get to know the artists exhibiting at Parramatta Artists’ Studios (PAS) is a centre that nurtures and supports the MCA as part of the Biennale with APPEARANCES (2020) 10 am – 5 pm artists and artistic communities. Together, the Biennale of Sydney and an interactive family tour and art- 1 pm – 1.30 pm Cockatoo Island PAS are committed to providing spaces for artists and audiences to making workshop. Queen Victoria Building, The Dome Free make, experience and discuss contemporary arts. Movers and Makers Free Curator of Western Sydney’s Way is an open day that connects artists and presents potential pathways to Guided Tours: A site-specific improvisational Out West Children’s Festival Claudia professional opportunities. Cockatoo Island performance. Chidiac responds to the themes of 11 am and 2 pm NIRIN, creating an intergenerational Cockatoo Island, Information Hub NIRIN Film Program program that promotes participation School Holiday Art in Action Workshop: 10 am – 5 pm Free (Bookings required) 2 pm – 4 pm and exchange. Visit our website for Cockatoo Island Campbelltown Arts Centre daily activities. Better Together Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. $10 concession 10.30 am – 1 pm Free

Visit our website for film listings. Museum of Contemporary Art Visit our website for daily family FUNPARK Workshops Australia: Level 3 art activities. 12 pm – 3 pm $10 / $7.50 MCA Members and Bidwill Square, Bidwill concession Guided Tours: Free (Bookings required) Free for MCA Family BREAKING BREAD Cockatoo Island FUNPARK offers free, fun Get to know the artists exhibiting 11 am and 2 pm workshops for young people SATURDAY 21 MARCH – SUNDAY 22 MARCH at the MCA as part of the Biennale Cockatoo Island, Information Hub aged 4-20 years – led by artists 12 pm – 2.30 pm with an interactive family tour. Then, Free (Bookings required) from the Mount Druitt community. Sydney Observatory head into the Creative Studios and experiment with a range of materials Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Free (Bookings required) and techniques to create your very own original work of art. FUNPARK Workshops DAY 35 12 pm – 3 pm FRIDAY 17 APRIL Guided Tours: Bidwill Square, Bidwill Parramatta Female Free (Bookings required)

Factory Precinct School Holiday Explore art with ecologists and Workshops 11 am augmented reality inventors, spin a Parramatta Female Factory Precinct yarn with local Elders and old-time 9.30 am – 4 pm Free (Bookings required) residents and drum your heart out with National Art School Pacifica musicians. FUNPARK offers $100 (Unless otherwise specified) Discover the stories and history of this significant site. free, fun workshops for young people Students aged 6-15 start their aged 4-20 years – led by artists from artmaking journey through workshops the Mount Druitt community. Guided Tours: that explore the themes of the NIRIN.

Cockatoo Island NIRIN Film Program Art in Action 11 am and 2 pm 8.30 pm Cross Winds / Cross Currents is an improvisation where cuisine meets art. 10 am – 5 pm Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Golden Age Cinema and Bar Inspired by an optimism for new utopias, Breaking Bread collaborate with a Cockatoo Island Free (Bookings required) $22.50 / $18 concession range of Sydney-based practitioners who share their ethos of food and food Free Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Visit our website for film listings. sharing as a generative activity that can birth new understandings. Visit our website for daily family art Presented by the Powerhouse Museum and the Triangle Network. activities.

DAY 33 DAY 34 Guided Tours: DAY 30 Guided Tours: WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL THURSDAY 16 APRIL Cockatoo Island SUNDAY 12 APRIL Cockatoo Island 11 am and 2 pm Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 11 am and 2 pm School Holiday Guided Tours: Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Free (Bookings required) Namila Benson: Workshops Free (Bookings required) La Perouse Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Artist Interview Series 9.30 am – 4 pm Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. 9.30 am – 11 am National Art School 10 am – 12 pm La Perouse, Cann Park FUNPARK Workshops National Art School, $100 (Unless otherwise specified) $10 12 pm – 3 pm Cell Block Theatre Students aged 6-15 start their Take a guided tour from the native Bidwill Square, Bidwill Free DAY 32 artmaking journey through workshops bush and coastline of La Perouse that explore the themes of the NIRIN. Free (Bookings required) Namila Benson’s interviews with TUESDAY 14 APRIL (Guriwal) to La Perouse Museum. NIRIN artists will be broadcast in the FUNPARK offers free, fun workshops for young people Cell Block Theatre. Interviews are Guided Tour: School Holiday prerecorded; this is not a live event. School Holiday aged 4-20 years – led by artists Campbelltown Arts Centre Workshops from the Mount Druitt community. Interviews will also be available on the Workshops Biennale of Sydney podcast on Spotify. 10 am – 11 am 9.30 am – 4 pm 9.30 am – 4 pm Campbelltown Arts Centre National Art School National Art School Free Our Path: Linda Kennedy $100 (Unless otherwise specified) $100 (Unless otherwise specified) DAY 36 10 am – 5 pm Join our guided tour of the works in Students aged 6-15 start their Students aged 6-15 start their Cockatoo Island, Biloela House the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. artmaking journey through workshops SATURDAY 18 APRIL artmaking journey by using a variety that explore the themes of the NIRIN. Free of different materials to build on Join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin their ideas and understanding Tony Albert: Healing Guided Tours: Tony Albert: woman, every Sunday on Cockatoo of art and the world. Workshops Land, Remembering La Perouse Island for a series of creative will explore the themes of the Country Healing Land, workshops that share culture, 22nd Biennale of Sydney. 9.30 am – 11 am 10 am – 2 pm Remembering Country history and politics, encouraging La Perouse, Cann Park Cockatoo Island 10 am – 2 pm continued conversations at home. $10 Art In Action Free Cockatoo Island Take a guided tour from the native 10 am – 5 pm Free Guided Tours: Share thoughts and wishes for an bush and coastline of La Perouse Cockatoo Island alternative narrative for children Share thoughts and wishes for an (Guriwal) to La Perouse Museum. Cockatoo Island Free and young people who were – and alternative narrative for children

11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Visit our website for daily family are – incarcerated, as part of the and young people who were – and Cockatoo Island, Information Hub art activities. revegetation project at the Blacktown are – incarcerated, as part of the Free (Bookings required) Native Institution. revegetation project at the Blacktown Native Institution. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. 13 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 PROGRAM Brian Fuata: DAY 39 Guided Tour: APPARITIONAL TUESDAY 21 APRIL Campbelltown Arts Centre CHARLATAN – MINOR 10 am – 11 am Campbelltown Arts Centre BOOKINGS www.biennaleofsydney.art/events APPEARANCES (2020) School Holiday Free 1 pm – 3 pm NIRIN HAIVETA of an old amusement park comes National Art School, Workshops a community’s vision for the solid Join our guided tour of the works in 10 am Cell Block Theatre 9.30 am – 4 pm ground they stand on. Expect hula the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to Free National Art School Cockatoo Island Wharf hoops and home-truths. Presented $100 (Unless otherwise specified) with PYT Fairfield, CuriousWorks, A site-specific improvisational Tony Albert: 2 pm Students aged 6-15 start their Cockatoo Island Wharf to Blacktown Arts, Learning Ground and performance. Healing Land, Bidwill Uniting. artmaking journey through workshops Sydney Olympic Park Wharf that explore the themes of the NIRIN. Remembering Country Free (Bookings required) MCA GENEXT: 10 am – 2 pm NIRIN HAIVETA will transport Western NIRIN Edition Art in Action Cockatoo Island Sydney residents from Sydney 6 pm – 9 pm Free Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo 10 am – 5 pm Museum of Contemporary Art Cockatoo Island Share thoughts and wishes for an Island for free every Saturday. Australia Free alternative narrative for children Free (Bookings required) and young people who were – and Visit our website for daily family art are – incarcerated, as part of the The MCA’s flagship event for people activities. aged 12 to 18, GENEXT is an after- revegetation project at the Blacktown GHOST WRITER: COMMUNITY POSTER PROJECT hours museum takeover featuring Native Institution. workshops, social activities, youth- Guided Tours: SATURDAY 14 MARCH – WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE led tours and live performance, all Cockatoo Island Art in Action Any time programmed by the MCA Youth 11 am and 2 pm 10 am – 5 pm Committee and inspired by the 22nd Newtown Square, Newtown ArtSeat Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Cockatoo Island Biennale of Sydney. Free Free (Bookings required) Free

Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Visit our website for daily family art activities. DAY 38 Children’s Access MONDAY 20 APRIL Workshop Guided Tours: 11 am – 12.30 pm Cockatoo Island School Holiday Art Gallery of NSW 11 am and 2 pm Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Workshops This is a creative workshop for Free (Bookings required) 9.30 am – 4 pm children with specific needs, their Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. National Art School families and carers. All materials $100 (Unless otherwise specified) and instructions are provided. Drop In and Make Students aged 6-15 start their Part of Brian Fuata’s Ghost Series, this project is a series of printed texts 11 am – 4 pm artmaking journey through workshops Drop In and Make on poster paper developed in conversation with Newtown locals and other that explore the themes of the NIRIN. Art Gallery of NSW NIRIN artists to be enjoyed while soaking in the urban buzz of Newtown. 11 am – 4 pm Free Supported by Inner West Council. Art Gallery of NSW Art in Action Get creative and make your own Free art at this free artmaking activity. 10 am – 5 pm Parents/carers and their children Cockatoo Island Get creative and make your own Tony Albert: DAY 37 art at this free artmaking activity. can drop in any time between Free Healing Land, SUNDAY 19 APRIL Parents/carers and their children 11 am and 4 pm. All materials and instructions are provided. Remembering Country Visit our website for daily family art can drop in any time between activities. 11 am and 4 pm. All materials 10 am – 2 pm Guided Tours: and instructions are provided. Cockatoo Island Guided Tours: Microplastics: Citizen La Perouse Free Cockatoo Island Science Field Trip 9.30 am – 11 am 11 am and 2 pm DAY 40 12 pm – 3.30 pm Share thoughts and wishes for an La Perouse, Cann Park alternative narrative for children Cockatoo Island, Information Hub WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL Cockatoo Island, Industrial Precinct $10 and young people who were – and Free (Bookings required) Free (Bookings required) Take a guided tour from the native are – incarcerated, as part of the Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. How pristine is our shoreline? bush and coastline of La Perouse School Holiday revegetation project at the Blacktown Join artists Kim Williams and Lucas Native Institution. (Guriwal) to La Perouse Museum. Workshops Drop In and Make Ihlein, with University of Wollongong 9.30 am – 4 pm scientists Dr Hugh Forehead and Art in Action Namila Benson: 11 am – 4 pm National Art School Nuwanthi Kristhombuge, for a Art Gallery of NSW $100 (Unless otherwise specified) hands-on survey of microplastics 10 am – 5 pm Artist Interview Series Free on a local Sydney beach. Suitable Cockatoo Island 10 am – 12 pm Students aged 6-15 start their artmaking journey through workshops for families and kids aged 6+. Free National Art School, Get creative and make your own art at Cell Block Theatre this free artmaking activity. Parents/ that explore the themes of the NIRIN. Visit our website for daily family art carers and their children can drop in Nick Waterlow Memorial activities. Free any time between 11 am and 4 pm. All Lecture: Youth Activism School Holiday Namila Benson’s interviews with materials and instructions are provided. NIRIN artists will be broadcast in 6 pm – 8 pm Workshop: the Cell Block Theatre. Interviews Powerhouse Museum Better Together are prerecorded; this is not a $30 / $25 concession live event. Interviews will also UNBOUND COLLECTIVE: IN THE HOLD 10.30 am – 1 pm Launched in 2010 to mark Nick be available on the Biennale Museum of Contemporary Art SATURDAY 30 MAY – TUESDAY 2 JUNE Waterlow’s contribution to the of Sydney podcast on Spotify. Australia: Level 3 5 pm – 5.45 pm arts, the 2020 memorial lecture $10 / $7.50 MCA Members and Sydney Observatory celebrates the brightest voices of concession Art in Action today, highlighting the work of young Free (Bookings required) Free for MCA Family activists at the forefront of mobilising 10 am – 5 pm Get to know the artists exhibiting at Cockatoo Island the public into political action. We have the largest generation of young the MCA as part of the Biennale Free with an interactive family tour and people the world has ever seen; Visit our website for daily family art art-making workshop. how are they amplifying their voices activities. and influencing decision makers? Guided Tours: Our Path: Linda Kennedy Cockatoo Island 10 am – 5 pm Cockatoo Island, Biloela House 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Free Cockatoo Island, Information Hub DAY 41 Join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin Free (Bookings required) THURSDAY 23 APRIL woman, every Sunday on Cockatoo Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Island for a series of creative workshops that share culture, School Holiday FUNPARK history and politics, encouraging Workshops continued conversations at home. 2 pm – 6 pm 9.30 am – 4 pm Bidwill Square, Bidwill We are giants of our histories National Art School Free Guided Tours: We are giants of the landscape $100 (Unless otherwise specified) Cockatoo Island Unbound Collective explore complex ideas around being free or bound Community. Art. Revolution. Join in Students aged 6-15 start their and offer poetic performance and music-based investigations of sovereign the large-scale grassroots celebration 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm artmaking journey through workshops identity and representation. In the Hold responds to radioactive ideas of living in Mount Druitt. From the site Cockatoo Island, Information Hub that explore the themes of the NIRIN. of deep colonialism and enacts the quietness of sovereignty through Free (Bookings required) activism, spoken word, music and installation projections. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Presented by the Powerhouse Museum.

14 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 VENUES

ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1 Enter Established in 1871, the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) is the leading 1 Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán (Until 7 May) museum of art in New South 16 2 2 Karla Dickens Wales and one of Australia’s 18 17 foremost cultural institutions. 15 3 Musa N. Nxumalo The Gallery is located on the 4 Kunmanara Mumu Mike Williams eastern side of Sydney’s CBD, 14 20 5 Barbara McGrady next to the Royal Botanic 6 The Mulka Project Garden Sydney and The 3 19 10 9 8 Domain. It is easily accessible 7 Joël Andrianomearisoa 4 from St James and Martin Place 13 11 8 Emily Karaka stations, bus route 441, and 12 7 9 Préfète Duffaut Sydney Explorer bus stop 12. 5 10 Mostaff Muchawaya A permanent access ramp 20 21 11 Josep Grau-Garriga is available for entry to AGNSW, as well as ramps 12 LaFortune Felix and lifts within the Gallery for 13 Karim Bleus access to exhibitions, gift shop, 14 Lhola Amira café and restaurant. For a 6 floor plan and further access 15 Iltja Ntjarra / Namatjira School of Art details, please see the Gallery’s 16 Rosana Paulino website. 17 Bronwyn Katz

Art Gallery Road, Sydney 18 Maria Thereza Alves Daily, 10 am–5 pm 19 Arthur Jafa Wednesday until 10 pm 20 Nicholas Galanin Closed Good Friday (10 April) 02 9225 1744 21 Andre Eugene artgallery.nsw.gov.au

ARTSPACE

Artspace is a leading institution 3 1 15 Screens for the production and 2 Colectivo Ayllu presentation of contemporary 4 5 art in the Asia-Pacific. Housed 3 Taqralik Partridge in the historic Gunnery building 2 4 Fátima Rodrigo Gonzales 6 in Woolloomooloo, Artspace is 1 5 Tennant Creek Brio only a five-minute walk from the Art Gallery of NSW on 6 Ibrahim Mahama the eastern side of Sydney’s CBD or a 15-minute walk from Enter Kings Cross Station. Bus route 311 stops directly opposite Artspace, and there is limited metered parking available or the Domain carpark is a short 10-minute walk away.

Artspace can be assessed by wheelchairs, prams and buggies, due to the ground floor location. The front door is not automatic. Fully accessible toilets are located on the ground floor.

43–51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo Daily, 10 am–5 pm Closed Good Friday (10 April) 02 9356 0555 artspace.org.au

15 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 VENUES

CAMPBELLTOWN ARTS CENTRE

Located on the edge of Sydney, 1 Musa N. Nxumalo 15 Campbelltown Arts Centre 16 2 Anders Sunna (C-A-C) creates a secure 14 platform for communities and 3 Iltja Ntjarra / Namatjira School of Art artists to take risks, challenge Suohpanterror 17 4 perceptions, confront issues 5 Demian DinéYazhí and R.I.S.E.: and raise questions through the 18 Radical Indigenous Survivance & commissioning of new works. 19 C-A-C is located approximately 13 Empowerment 50 mins from the Sydney CBD. 11 12 10 6 First Dog on the Moon The nearest train station is 9 7 Napoleon Jones-Henderson Campbelltown Station 8 (on Hurley Street), a 10 minute 7 8 Charlotte Allingham walk away. Free car parking 6 9 Noŋgirrŋa Marawili is located on Art Gallery Road 5 10 Shaheed / Witness / Kashmir and is open 24 hours a day. 4 11 Misheck Masamvu En C-A-C is wheelchair accessible 3 te 2 12 Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and there is a drop off/pick 1 r up and accessible parking via 13 John Miller and Elisapeta Heta the boom gate for people with 14 Barbara McGrady mobility requirements. 15 Adrian Stimson 1 Art Gallery Rd, Campbelltown 16 Denilson Baniwa Daily, 10 am–5 pm 17 Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh 02 4645 4100 and Hesam Rahmanian c-a-c.com.au 18 Aziz Hazara 19 15 Screens

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AUSTRALIA Enter

Level 1 Located at Sydney’s iconic 1 Joël Andrianomearisoa Circular Quay, the Museum 2 Mayunkiki of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) is the world’s most 3 Denilson Baniwa

visited contemporary art 13 4 Victoria Santa Cruz museum with almost 1.1 million 11 5 Eric Bridgeman visitors annually. The MCA 12 is a three minute walk from 6 Kulimoe’anga Stone Maka 10 Circular Quay Station, which 2 7 15 Screens is accessible by bus, train, light 8 1 3 8 Erkan Özgen rail or ferry. 9 4 9 Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán 6 Entry to the MCA is via George 10 Tony Albert Street, or through lift access 7 5 11 Iltja Ntjarra / Namatjira School of Art via Circular Quay West. All Enter public areas of the Museum, 12 Noŋgirrŋa Marawili including galleries, MCA Store, 13 Ahmed Umar MCA Cafe and Restaurant, are accessible via lifts.

140 George Street, The Rocks 1 Joël Andrianomearisoa 6 Daily, 10 am–5 pm 7 2 Misheck Masamvu Wednesday until 9 pm 5 3 Jes Fan 02 9245 2400 mca.com.au 2 4 Pedro Wonaeamirri

8 5 Aziz Hazara 9 4 6 15 Screens 1 7 Huma Bhabha

3 8 Tarek Lakhrissi

Level 3 9 Prof. Sir Zanele Muholi

16 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020

COCKATOO ISLAND

Inscribed on the UNSECO 1 Laure Prouvost 21 Tennant Creek Brio World-Heritage List, Cockatoo 2 Eric Bridgeman and Haus Yuriyal 22 Ibrahim Mahama Island is Sydney’s largest island, and as a result of its 3 Melanie Mununggurr-Williams 23 Warwick Thornton pivotal role in Australia’s convict 4 Shaheed / Witness / Kashmir 24 Anna Boghiguian and defence history, it retains 5 Bhenji Ra and Eric Bridgeman 25 S.J Norman an incredible legacy of over 80 colonial and industrial assets 6 ArTree Nepal 26 Nicholas Galanin including buildings, cranes, 7 Manuel Ocampo 27 Gina Athena Ulysse docks and slipways. The F8 8 15 Screens 28 Katarina Matiasek Cockatoo Island Ferry runs from Circular Quay. Regular ferry 9 Iltja Ntjarra / Namatjira School of Art 29 Lawrence Abu Hamdan services also run from Darling 10 Adrift Lab 30 Sammy Baloji Harbour, Barangaroo, or any 11 Lhola Amira 31 Tony Albert of the wharves along the F3 Parramatta River route. 12 Vajiko Chachkhiani 32 Jota Mombaça 13 Lucas Ihlein & Kim Williams 33 15 Screens Cockatoo Island has 14 Léuli Eshrāghi 34 Mohamed Bourouissa overnight accommodation with a waterfront campground 15 Sissel M. Bergh 35 Jose Dávila and heritage houses and 16 Paulo Nazareth 36 Biloela House (learning space) apartments. 17 Lisa Reihana Hazards such as voids and 18 Jose Dávila uneven surfaces exist on 19 Latai Taumoepeau Cockatoo Island, a former 20 Tania Bruguera industrial site. Exhibition spaces, except Building 101, on Cockatoo Island are accessible by wheelchair. Some spaces are darkened Parramatta and require extra vigilance. Wharf F3 Parramatta River route F3 Parramatta River route Contact our team to talk about to/from Circular Quay to/from Parramatta and Rydalmere how we can welcome you to the island and ensure your visit is safe and enjoyable.

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17 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 VENUES Forbes Street entrance

NATIONAL ART SCHOOL 1

The National Art School (NAS) is Australia’s leading Burton Street entrance independent fine art school, a producer of new art, and 2 a place to experience and participate in the arts. NAS 3 is a five-minute walk from Kings Cross station, or a 10-minute stroll from Museum Station. NAS is also close to the Bourke Street cycleway and there are ample bike racks on site. There is no parking available on campus, but paid parking is available on the surrounding streets. NAS Gallery Entry to NAS is via Forbes or Burton Streets. All public areas

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18 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 PROGRAM Life (and Death) SaltWalks with Randy SaltWalks with in the Abstract Lee Cutler: Royal Randy Lee Cutler: 1.30 pm – 3 pm Botanic Garden Sydney National Art School to BOOKINGS Abel Tasman Village, Chester Hill www.biennaleofsydney.art/events 11 am – 12.30 pm Free (Bookings required) Sydney Jewish Museum Royal Botanic Garden Sydney 12 pm – 1.30 pm Tony Albert: DAY 42 I.C.E. invites you to exercise, dance PWYC (Bookings required) Healing Land, and make art with frail and dementia- National Art School FRIDAY 24 APRIL Framed as an improvised walk affected residents of Abel Tasman PWYC (Bookings required) Remembering Country with artist Randy Lee Cutler, Village. Led by artists Naomi Oliver, Framed as an improvised walk 10 am – 2 pm this performance shares stories, School Holiday Liam Benson and Victoria Harbutt, anecdotes and information about with artist Randy Lee Cutler, Cockatoo Island DJ Black President and Care Workshops the ubiquitous mineral known as this performance shares stories, Free Manager, Sophia Markwell, 9.30 am – 4 pm salt and its importance to life, anecdotes and information about Share thoughts and wishes for an the program contemplates and National Art School ritual, survival, health and industry. the ubiquitous mineral known as alternative narrative for children honours existence and oblivion salt and its importance to life, $100 (Unless otherwise specified) and young people who were – and (your own). Experience your ritual, survival, health and industry. are – incarcerated, as part of the Students aged 6-15 start their future. No watchers please. Participants can also take a special revegetation project at the Blacktown artmaking journey through workshops tour of the Sydney Jewish Museum Native Institution. that explore the themes of the NIRIN. after the walk. Additional fees apply.

Art in Action Art in Action THE FLAG PROJECT Microplastics: Citizen 10 am – 5 pm 10 am – 5 pm Science Field Trip WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL Cockatoo Island Cockatoo Island 12 pm – 3.30 pm Free Free 10 am Cockatoo Island, Industrial Precinct Visit our website for daily family art Visit our website for daily family Lilyfield Pedestrian Bridge, Lilyfield Free (Bookings required) Free activities. art activities. How pristine is our shoreline? Join artists Kim Williams and Lucas Guided Tours: Guided Tours: Ihlein, with University of Wollongong Cockatoo Island Cockatoo Island scientists Dr Hugh Forehead and Nuwanthi Kristhombuge, for a 11 am and 2 pm 11 am and 2 pm hands-on survey of microplastics Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Cockatoo Island, Information Hub on a local Sydney beach. Suitable Free (Bookings required) Free (Bookings required) for families and kids aged 6+.

Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Brian Fuata: Drop In and Make SaltWalks with Randy APPARITIONAL 11 am – 4 pm Lee Cutler: Chinatown CHARLATAN – MINOR Art Gallery of NSW 11 am – 12.30 pm APPEARANCES (2020) Free Chinatown 1 pm – 3 pm Get creative and make your own PWYC (Bookings required) National Art School, Initiated by Sydney Festival, Proclamation is an observational work linking art at this free artmaking activity. Cell Block Theatre Framed as an improvised walk the community and their idea of belonging to the land and country. The Parents/carers and their children with artist Randy Lee Cutler, Flag Project is a continuation of that project and the dialogue between Free can drop in any time between this performance shares stories, two First Nations Artistic Directors: Wesley Enoch and Brook Andrew. A site-specific improvisational 11 am and 4 pm. All materials anecdotes and information about Supported by Inner West Council. performance. and instructions are provided. the ubiquitous mineral known as salt, including taste tests from Artist Talk: Andrew Rewald: mass produced table salt to DAY 43 Soil Creation Himalayan rock salt and Fleur de DAY 44 Brook Andrew sel from Brittany. This performance SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2 pm – 2.45 pm 2 pm SUNDAY 26 APRIL embodies an aesthetic, cultural Campbelltown Arts Centre National Art School, Alchemy Garden and philosophical enquiry into the Free (Bookings required) NIRIN HAIVETA Free (Bookings required) importance of salt to life, ritual, Namila Benson: Artist Andrew Rewald’s talk on survival, health and industry. 10 am Artist Interview Series Brook Andrew, Artistic Director of Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to the 22nd Biennale of Sydney will anthropogenic soils will explore the 10 am – 12 pm Cockatoo Island Wharf offer his thoughts and insights on role of charcoal in sequestering Drop In and Make National Art School, carbon – as practiced by Indigenous 2 pm the artists and artworks on display Cell Block Theatre cultures globally for thousands of 11 am – 4 pm Cockatoo Island Wharf to at Campbelltown Arts Centre. Free years – followed by a workshop Art Gallery of NSW Sydney Olympic Park Wharf on domestic self-watering and Free Free (Bookings required) Namila Benson’s interviews with self-composting processes Get creative and make your own NIRIN HAIVETA will transport Western NIRIN artists will be broadcast in utilising repurposed materials and art at this free artmaking activity. Sydney residents from Sydney the Cell Block Theatre. Interviews DAY 45 domestic waste. The workshop is a Parents/carers and their children Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo are prerecorded; this is not a MONDAY 27 APRIL collaboration with Stephen Joseph, can drop in any time between Island for free every Saturday. live event. Interviews will also material scientist and process/ 11 am and 4 pm. All materials be available on the Biennale renewable energy engineer working in of Sydney podcast on Spotify. and instructions are provided. Tony Albert: Guided Tours: soil science and agronomy. Cockatoo Island Healing Land, Art in Action Remembering Country 11 am and 2 pm 10 am – 5 pm Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 10 am – 2 pm Cockatoo Island Free (Bookings required) CLUB ATE: BHENJI RA & SITTI OBESO Cockatoo Island Free Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Free WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE & SATURDAY 6 JUNE Visit our website for daily family art 12 pm – 1.30 pm Share thoughts and wishes for an activities. alternative narrative for children Powerhouse Museum and young people who were – and Our Path: Linda Kennedy Free (Bookings required) are – incarcerated, as part of the DAY 46 revegetation project at the Blacktown 10 am – 5 pm TUESDAY 28 APRIL Native Institution. Cockatoo Island, Biloela House Free Guided Tour: Parramatta Art in Action Join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin woman, Female Factory Precinct 10 am – 5 pm every Sunday on Cockatoo Island for 11 am Cockatoo Island a series of creative workshops that Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Free share culture, history and politics, encouraging continued conversations Free (Bookings required) Visit our website for daily family at home. Discover the stories and art activities. history of this significant site. Guided Tours: Guided Tours: Cockatoo Island Guided Tours: Cockatoo Island 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Cockatoo Island 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 11 am and 2 pm Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Tausug Elder and Pangalay master Sitti Obeso from Southern Philippines, Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Free (Bookings required) joins Filipina Australian artist Bhenji Ra in performative conversation. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Free (Bookings required) Bleeding the lines between ocean and land, the traditional and Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. contemporary, the Indigenous and the diasporic body, this exchange between teacher and student is a generous sharing of a relationship sustained by periodic visits to home country, the sharing of personal ephemera, and online messages across the Pacific Ocean. Presented by the Powerhouse Museum.

19 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 DAY 50 educator-led activities as well as tactile DAY 51 PROGRAM objects throughout this tour. This SATURDAY 2 MAY program is tailored for individuals who SUNDAY 3 MAY are blind or have vision impairment BOOKINGS www.biennaleofsydney.art/events NIRIN HAIVETA and their family to enjoy together. True Nourishment flip this flawed history and debate the 10 am 8.30 am – 2.30 pm DAY 47 Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to Guided Tours: question: ‘To cook Cook or not?’ Wayside Chapel Cockatoo Island Wharf WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL Supported by The Balnaves Cockatoo Island Pay What You Can ticket (All ticket 2 pm Foundation. 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm sales donated to the Wayside Chapel) Cockatoo Island Wharf to Cockatoo Island, Information Hub The Flag Project Sydney Olympic Park Wharf Chef Kylie Kwong invites the Biennale Free (Bookings required) 10 am Free (Bookings required) audience to explore the concept of Lilyfield Pedestrian Bridge Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. ‘true nourishment’ through preparing NIRIN HAIVETA will transport DAY 48 food, serving the charity’s visitors, Free Western Sydney residents from and sharing respect for the people, THURSDAY 30 APRIL Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to Initiated by Sydney Festival, Auslan Tour: stories and places behind the food Cockatoo Island for free every Proclamation is an observational work Biennale 2020 that we eat. linking the community and their idea of Saturday. Tony Albert: 1 pm – 3 pm belonging to the land and country. The Healing Land, Museum of Contemporary Art EDGE Greenway: Flag Project is a continuation of that EDGE Greenway: project and the dialogue between two Remembering Country Australia: Level 1 To See the Way First Nations Artistic Directors: Wesley 10 am – 2 pm To See the Way Free (Bookings required) Time TBA Enoch and Brook Andrew. Supported Cockatoo Island Time TBA Join a deaf-led tour with MCA artist Legs on the Wall, Canal Road by Inner West Council. Free Legs on the Wall, Canal Road educators and experience the works Free Share thoughts and wishes for an Free of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020). During the tour, build creative How do we support artists and Guided Tour: alternative narrative for children How do we support artists and connections and engage in a range creatives in rapidly changing and young people who were – and creatives in rapidly changing Campbelltown Arts Centre of educator-led gallery activities. cities and consider First Nations are – incarcerated, as part of the cities and consider First Nations 10 am – 11 am An art-making session in the MCA communities, multiculturalism, revegetation project at the Blacktown communities, multiculturalism, Campbelltown Arts Centre Creative Studios will follow the tour. art, environment and activism in Native Institution. art, environment and activism in the face of urban transformation? Free the face of urban transformation? Supported by Inner West Council. Join our guided tour of the works in Guided Tours: Supported by Inner West Council. Projections #3 + NIRIN the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Cockatoo Island 2 pm The Gulbangali Tony Albert: Art Gallery of NSW 11 am and 2 pm ARTplay Free Dharug Nura Project: Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Healing Land, 10 am – 11 am and 11 am – 12 pm Community Gathering Free (Bookings required) Remembering Country French anthropologist, Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art Glowczewski, explores how 10 am – 1 pm 10 am – 2 pm Australia: Level 3 Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Warlpiri people choose to represent Oakhurst, Blacktown Native Institution Cockatoo Island $7 per family / Free entry for MCA themselves and engage in thinking Free Free Family Members Reading NIRIN: about cultural reproduction in a digital Through ceremony and art, Country Share thoughts and wishes for an world in the film Lajamanu – 40 years will rejuvenate, regenerate, heal and Engage all the senses in this weekly NIRIN NGAAY alternative narrative for young people with Warlpiri People (2018, Australia). resonate. The gathering will include a creative play session for children 5 6 pm – 8 pm who were – and are – incarcerated, as children’s workshop and workshops years and under. part of the revegetation project at the Green Square Library La Perouse for adults led by three Dharug artists. Free (Bookings required) Blacktown Native Institution. Tony Albert: Cultural Experience The NIRIN NGAAY reading group Our Path: Linda Kennedy Healing Land, is an opportunity to engage with Audio Described 3.30 pm – 7 pm Remembering Country the innovative texts, writers and and Tactile Tour: La Perouse Museum 10 am – 5 pm artists featured in the Biennale $30 (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island, Biloela House 10 am – 2 pm Biennale 2020 reader, NIRIN NGAAY. Two leading Aboriginal guides and Free Cockatoo Island 10.30 am – 12.30 pm storytellers will take guests on a Join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin Free Museum of Contemporary Art spiritual journey at La Perouse, woman, every Sunday on Cockatoo Australia Share thoughts and wishes for an finishing with traditional Aboriginal Island for a series of creative alternative narrative for children Free (Bookings required) DAY 49 fare under the stars. workshops that share culture, and young people who were – and FRIDAY 1 MAY Incorporating both audio description Presented by Randwick City Council. history and politics, encouraging are – incarcerated, as part of the and tactile resources, experience continued conversations at home. revegetation project at the Blacktown key works from the 22nd Biennale Native Institution. EDGE Greenway: of Sydney. Engage with a range of MzRizk: Ahla Wa Sahlan To See the Way 10 am – 5 pm Guided Tours: National Art School, Time TBA OUR PATH: LINDA KENNEDY Cockatoo Island Legs on the Wall, Canal Road Cell Block Theatre 11 am and 2 pm Free EVERY SUNDAY 15 MARCH – 31 MAY Free Cockatoo Island, Information Hub How do we support artists and 10 am – 5 pm A tribute to Lebanon, MzRizk’s Free (Bookings required) creatives in rapidly changing Cockatoo Island, Biloela House immersive audio work highlights the Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. cities and consider First Nations Free importance of music and sound in communities, multiculturalism, the construct of cultural identity. Sovereign Ideas art, environment and activism in the face of urban transformation? MCA Zine Fair 2020 12 pm – 2.30 pm Supported by Inner West Council. Sydney Town Hall, Centennial Hall 10.30 am – 4.30 pm Free (Bookings required) Museum of Contemporary Art Guided Tours: Australia: Foundation Hall 300 First Nations students from Cockatoo Island Free high schools around Australia will gather at Sydney Town Hall in a 11 am and 2 pm The annual MCA Zine Fair showcases celebration of Indigenous excellence. Cockatoo Island, Information Hub over 100 creators of zines, small Featuring iconoclastic young Free (Bookings required) press, distros and comics from cultural thinkers and leaders from Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. across the country. Sharing the Indigenous communities across the spirit of NIRIN, the fair celebrates globe including Matika Wilbur and the alternative, experimental and DOBBY, Sovereign Ideas presents an Life (and Death) emerging artists. encouraging narrative of possibilities. in the Abstract Presented as part of Sydney Only for students. Supported by 1.30 pm – 3 pm Writers’ Festival. The Balnaves Foundation. OUR PATH is a learning program that highlights the excellent educational Abel Tasman Village, Chester Hill practices of artists and community leaders in regional NSW. Join Linda Free (Bookings required) Drop In and Make Kennedy on Cockatoo Island for a series of creative workshops that To cook Cook or not I.C.E. invites you to exercise, dance share culture, history and politics, encouraging continued conversations 11 am – 4 pm 6 pm – 9 pm and make art with frail and dementia- at home. Linda is a Yuin woman from the South Coast of NSW with Art Gallery of NSW Sydney Town Hall, Centennial Hall affected residents of Abel Tasman a background in architecture and design and her teaching tools mix Free Village. Led by artists Naomi Oliver, creative arts, STEM education, cultural practice and yarning. $30 / $25 concession Get creative and make your own art Liam Benson and Victoria Harbutt, On the 250th anniversary of Cook’s at this free artmaking activity. Parents/ DJ Black President and Care landing, we challenge the dominant OUR PATH: UNCLE JOHN KELLY & RENA SHEIN carers and their children can drop in Manager, Sophia Markwell, the narrative that the arrival of a British any time between 11 am and 4 pm. program contemplates and honours MONDAY 1 JUNE – MONDAY 8 JUNE sailor who pillaged his way across All materials and instructions are existence and oblivion (your own). 10 am – 3 pm the Pacific is a more impressive story provided. Experience your future. than the 60,000 years of continuous Cockatoo Island, Biloela House No watchers please. history of Australia’s Indigenous Free people. On 29 April 2020, First Kempsey-based artist and Dunghutti Elder, John Kelly, imparts his Nations artists will take centre strong sense of culture by mentoring young men in traditional practices stage in one of our most historic and engaging children and community in the preservation and buildings – Sydney Town Hall – to celebration of culture. Over a week, Uncle John and artist Rena Shein will collaborate with young people and families on a participatory work based on Uncle John’s Dreaming.

20 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 DAY 52 Engage all the senses in this NIRIN Film Program DAY 56 DAY 57 weekly creative play session 8.30 pm MONDAY 4 MAY for children 5 years and under. FRIDAY 8 MAY SATURDAY 9 MAY QT Sydney, Screening Room $30 screening Guided Tours: Guided Tours: Bushwalk with Guided Tours: Visit our website for film listings. Cockatoo Island Cockatoo Island Cockatoo Island Aunty Deidre Martin 11 am and 2 pm 11 am and 2 pm 11 am and 2 pm 9 am – 10.30 am Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Dharawal National Park Free (Bookings required) Free (Bookings required) DAY 55 Free (Bookings required) $15 (Bookings required)

Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. THURSDAY 7 MAY Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Join Aunty Deidre Martin on a guided Indigenous bushwalk through beautiful Life (and Death) Dharawal National Park and learn Audio Description Tour Guided Tours: about the Australian landscape from a in the Abstract DAY 53 1 pm – 2.30 pm Cockatoo Island Koori perspective. The walk traverses Art Gallery of NSW 1.30 pm – 3 pm the O’Hares Creek Lookout and is 11 am and 2 pm TUESDAY 5 MAY Free Abel Tasman Village, Chester Hill an inclusive walk where guests of all Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Free (Bookings required) abilities and ages are welcome. Visitors who are blind or with low Free (Bookings required) Guided Tours: vision can explore highlights in NIRIN I.C.E. invites you to exercise, dance Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Cockatoo Island and enjoy the artworks with detailed and make art with frail and dementia- NIRIN HAIVETA audio descriptions and tactile support affected residents of Abel Tasman 11 am and 2 pm 10 am material. This event occurs seated in Stories We Never Tell Village. Led by artists Naomi Oliver, Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to the exhibition. Sighted companions 2 pm – 5 pm Liam Benson and Victoria Harbutt, Cockatoo Island Wharf Free (Bookings required) and guide dogs are welcome. Parramatta Female Factory Precinct DJ Black President and Care 2 pm Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Free (Bookings required) Manager, Sophia Markwell, Cockatoo Island Wharf to Art Club the program contemplates and Sydney Olympic Park Wharf Stories We Never Tell is a honours existence and oblivion 4 pm – 6 pm Free (Bookings required) performative walking tour of the (your own). Experience your Campbelltown Arts Centre former Parramatta Girls Home; future. No watchers please. NIRIN HAIVETA will transport Western DAY 54 $155 (8 weeks) a place where the walls are inscribed Sydney residents from Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo WEDNESDAY 6 MAY Art Club is a place for children aged with the marks and memories of Stories We Never Tell Island for free every Saturday. 5 – 12 to meet artists, explore galleries, women. Storytellers will activate the buildings through their personal and 2 pm – 5 pm Guided Tour: collaborate with other creative kids, and experiment with a range of art forms. familial experiences to redefine the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Tony Albert: Campbelltown Arts Centre space with resilience, celebration Free (Bookings required) and women’s matrilineal activism. Healing Land, 10 am – 11 am Stories We Never Tell is a MCA Sounds on The program concludes with dinner Remembering Country Campbelltown Arts Centre performative walking tour of the and a garden party. Free the Terrace former Parramatta Girls Home; 10 am – 2 pm Presented with Parramatta Female 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm a place where the walls are inscribed Cockatoo Island Join our guided tour of the works in Factory and PYT Fairfield. Museum of Contemporary Art with the marks and memories of Free the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Australia: Level 4 women. Storytellers will activate the Share thoughts and wishes for an Free buildings through their personal and alternative narrative for children ARTplay Experience the magic of CircularQuay familial experiences to redefine the and young people who were – and 10 am – 11 am and 11 am – 12 pm from the prime vantage point of the space with resilience, celebration are – incarcerated, as part of the Museum of Contemporary Art MCA Terrace then check out NIRIN til and women’s matrilineal activism. revegetation project at the Blacktown Australia: Level 3 9pm – perfect for those who can’t visit Presented with Parramatta Female Native Institution. $7 per family / Free entry for MCA the gallery during working hours. Factory Precinct and PYT Fairfield. Family Members

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21 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 Guided Tours: DAY 63 Two leading Aboriginal guides and PROGRAM Cockatoo Island storytellers will take guests on a FRIDAY 15 MAY spiritual journey at La Perouse, 11 am and 2 pm finishing with traditional Aboriginal Cockatoo Island, Information Hub BOOKINGS www.biennaleofsydney.art/events Guided Tours: fare under the stars. Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island Presented by Randwick City Council Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. MzRizk: Ahla Wa Sahlan 11 am and 2 pm Guided Tours: Cockatoo Island, Information Hub NIRIN Film Program 10 am – 5 pm Cockatoo Island Free (Bookings required) 2 pm – 4 pm National Art School, DAY 61 Campbelltown Arts Centre 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Cell Block Theatre $10 Cockatoo Island, Information Hub WEDNESDAY 13 MAY Free (Bookings required) Free Visit our website for film listings. Life (and Death) Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. A tribute to Lebanon, MzRizk’s immersive audio work highlights the ARTplay in the Abstract 10 am – 11 am and 11 am – 12 pm importance of music and sound in 1.30 pm – 3 pm Museum of Contemporary Art Youth-led Guided Tours: the construct of cultural identity. Abel Tasman Village, Chester Hill Australia: Level 3 DAY 65 12 pm – 12.30 pm and 2 pm – 2.30 pm Free (Bookings required) SUNDAY 17 MAY Museum of Contemporary Art Guided Tours: $7 per family / Free entry for MCA Australia Family Members I.C.E. invites you to exercise, dance Cockatoo Island and make art with frail and dementia- Free Engage all the senses in this affected residents of Abel Tasman Guided Tours: 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm weekly creative play session The MCA Young Guides are a group Village. Led by artists Naomi Oliver, Cockatoo Island, Information Hub for children 5 years and under. La Perouse of 15 to 21-year old volunteers who Liam Benson and Victoria Harbutt, Free (Bookings required) 9.30 am – 11 am are trained to give public tours and DJ Black President and Care La Perouse, Cann Park bring their unique perspectives to the Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Guided Tour: Manager, Sophia Markwell, $10 Museum’s exhibitions and collections. Campbelltown Arts Centre the program contemplates and Join this smart, thought-provoking honours existence and oblivion Take a guided tour from the native tours exploring the themes of NIRIN at 10 am – 11 am (your own). Experience your bush and coastline of La Perouse the MCA. Meet in the foyer – look out DAY 59 Campbelltown Arts Centre future. No watchers please. (Guriwal) to La Perouse Museum. for the green ‘Tour Starts Here’ sign! Free MONDAY 11 MAY Join our guided tour of the works in Family Weekend NIRIN Film Program the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. 9.30 am – 4.30 pm 2 pm – 4 pm Guided Tours: DAY 64 National Art School Campbelltown Arts Centre Cockatoo Island Tony Albert: SATURDAY 16 MAY Free (Unless otherwise specified) $10 11 am and 2 pm Healing Land, Create artwork as a family as you Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Visit our website for film listings. Remembering Country Guided Tours: explore the National Art School Free (Bookings required) campus, history and NIRIN exhibition. 10 am – 2 pm La Perouse Workshops will include scavenger hunt Stories We Never Tell Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Cockatoo Island 9.30 am – 11 am drawing activities, watercolour painting, 2 pm – 5 pm Free La Perouse, Cann Park expressive printmaking and more. Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Artist Talk: Adrift Lab Share thoughts and wishes for an $10 Free (Bookings required) 12.30 pm – 3.30 pm alternative narrative for children Take a guided tour from the native Our Path: Linda Kennedy Stories We Never Tell is a Cockatoo Island and young people who were – and bush and coastline of La Perouse 10 am – 5 pm performative walking tour of the are – incarcerated, as part of the Dr. Alex Bond, Dr. Jennifer Lavers and (Guriwal) to La Perouse Museum. Cockatoo Island, Biloela House former Parramatta Girls Home; Dr. Ian Hutton explore the ideas and revegetation project at the Blacktown Free a place where the walls are inscribed themes of their Adrift Lab project. Native Institution. with the marks and memories of Family Weekend Join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin women. Storytellers will activate the Guided Tours: 9.30 am – 4.30 pm woman, every Sunday on Cockatoo buildings through their personal and Cockatoo Island National Art School Island for a series of creative familial experiences to redefine the Free (Unless otherwise specified) workshops that share culture, space with resilience, celebration 11 am and 2 pm history and politics, encouraging Create artwork as a family as you and women’s matrilineal activism. Cockatoo Island, Information Hub continued conversations at home. explore the National Art School Presented with Parramatta Female Free (Bookings required) campus, history and NIRIN exhibition. Factory Precinct and PYT Fairfield. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Workshops will include scavenger MzRizk: Ahla Wa Sahlan hunt drawing activities, watercolour 10 am – 5 pm NIRIN Film Program painting, expressive printmaking National Art School, and more. STORIES WE NEVER TELL 8.30 pm Cell Block Theatre Golden Age Cinema and Bar Free THURSDAY 7 MAY – SATURDAY 9 MAY $22.50 / $18 concession NIRIN HAIVETA A tribute to Lebanon, MzRizk’s 2 pm – 5 pm Visit our website for film listings. 10 am immersive audio work highlights the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to importance of music and sound in the Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island Wharf construct of cultural identity. 2 pm Cockatoo Island Wharf to Guided Tours: DAY 62 Sydney Olympic Park Wharf THURSDAY 14 MAY Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island

NIRIN HAIVETA will transport Western 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Guided Tours: Sydney residents from Sydney Free (Bookings required) Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo La Perouse Island for free every Saturday. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. 9.30 am – 11 am La Perouse, Cann Park Tony Albert: $10 Healing Land, Take a guided tour from the native Remembering Country DAY 66 bush and coastline of La Perouse MONDAY 18 MAY Stories We Never Tell is a performative walking tour of the former (Guriwal) to La Perouse Museum. 10 am – 2 pm Parramatta Girls Home; a place where the walls are inscribed with the Cockatoo Island marks and memories of women. Storytellers will activate the buildings Tony Albert: Free Guided Tours: through their personal and familial experiences to redefine the space Share thoughts and wishes for an Cockatoo Island with resilience, celebration and women’s matrilineal activism. The 22nd Healing Land, alternative narrative for children Biennale of Sydney is also proud to celebrate artist Bonney Djuric OAM 11 am and 2 pm Remembering Country and young people who were – and and her enduring advocacy for preserving this important site. Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 10 am – 2 pm are – incarcerated, as part of the Presented by Parramatta Female Factory Precinct and PYT Fairfield. Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island revegetation project at the Blacktown Free Native Institution. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour.

Share thoughts and wishes for an DAY 58 DAY 60 alternative narrative for children Guided Tours: and young people who were – and Cockatoo Island SUNDAY 10 MAY TUESDAY 12 MAY are – incarcerated, as part of the DAY 67 revegetation project at the Blacktown 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm TUESDAY 19 MAY Native Institution. Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Our Path: Linda Kennedy Guided Tours: Free (Bookings required) 10 am – 5 pm Guided Tours: Parramatta Female Guided Tours: Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Cockatoo Island, Biloela House Cockatoo Island Factory Precinct Cockatoo Island Free 11 am and 2 pm 11 am La Perouse Join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin woman, 11 am and 2 pm Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Cockatoo Island, Information Hub every Sunday on Cockatoo Island for Cultural Experience Free (Bookings required) (Bookings required) a series of creative workshops that Free Free (Bookings required) 3.30 pm – 7 pm Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. share culture, history and politics, Discover the stories and history of this Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. La Perouse Museum encouraging continued conversations significant site. $30 (Bookings required) at home.

22 I have balanced on many edges. Mentally I dangle from sharp, hard to see lines. Physically ageing, I grab for slow and slippery corners. Socially, the edges I navigate have always been worlds away from square angles, while spiritually I swing on splitting, drifting hair lines. I’m not always graceful. – Karla Dickens

Karla Dickens, 2018. Photograph: Mick Richards 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 DAY 70 and artistic communities. Together, immersive audio work highlights the PROGRAM the Biennale of Sydney and PAS importance of music and sound in the FRIDAY 22 MAY are committed to providing spaces construct of cultural identity. for artists and audiences to make, BOOKINGS www.biennaleofsydney.art/events Tony Albert: experience and discuss contemporary Guided Tours: Healing Land, arts. Movers and Makers is an DAY 68 Guided Tours: open day that connects artists Cockatoo Island Remembering Country WEDNESDAY 20 MAY Cockatoo Island and presents potential pathways 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm 10 am – 2 pm to professional opportunities. Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 11 am and 2 pm Cockatoo Island Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Guided Tours: Free Free (Bookings required) Guided Tours: Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Campbelltown Arts Centre Share thoughts and wishes for an Cockatoo Island Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. 10 am – 11 am alternative narrative for children 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Andrew Rewald: and young people who were – and Campbelltown Arts Centre Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Art and Dementia are – incarcerated, as part of the Foraging Now and Free Free (Bookings required) 11 am – 12.30 pm revegetation project at the Blacktown for the Future Join our guided tour of the works in Native Institution. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Art Gallery of NSW 4 pm Free (Bookings required) National Art School, Alchemy Garden Guided Tours: Youth-led Guided Tours: Free (Bookings required) ARTplay People living with dementia and their care partners can discover the Cockatoo Island 12 pm – 12.30 pm and 2 pm – 2.30 pm This event – walk and talk on 10 am – 11 am and 11 am – 12 pm NIRIN exhibition and take part in 11 am and 2 pm Museum of Contemporary Art ethnobotany and storytelling with Museum of Contemporary Art an inclusive group discussion and Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Australia a forager inspired meal – explores Australia: Level 3 creative art making experience. This Free traditional connections to non- $7 per family / Free entry for MCA Free (Bookings required) tour is particularly for people living The MCA Young Guides are a group native wild edible plants through Family Members Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. the historical movement of plants with younger-onset dementia and of 15 to 21-year old volunteers who Engage all the senses in this provides intellectual stimulation and are trained to give public tours and with the migration of people. In weekly creative play session encourages self-expression. Life (and Death) bring their unique perspectives to the collaboration with Diego Bonetto for children 5 years and under. in the Abstract Museum’s exhibitions and collections. – artist, professional forager and edible weed specialist. Breaking Bread: 1.30 pm – 3 pm Join this smart, thought-provoking Make & Play Cross Winds / Abel Tasman Village, Chester Hill tours exploring the themes of NIRIN at the MCA. Meet in the foyer – look out 10 am – 11 am Free (Bookings required) Cross Currents for the green ‘Tour Starts Here’ sign! Campbelltown Arts Centre 12 pm – 2.30 pm I.C.E. invites you to exercise, dance $10 (Bookings required) Sydney Observatory and make art with frail and dementia- Sing, dance and play your way Free (Bookings required) affected residents of Abel Tasman through the exhibition before getting Village. Led by artists Naomi Oliver, NIRIN HAIVETA Inspired by an optimism for new hands on in the studio with colour, Liam Benson and Victoria Harbutt, utopias, Breaking Bread collaborate textures and sounds inspired by DJ Black President and Care EVERY SATURDAY with a range of Sydney-based their experience. Manager, Sophia Markwell, 10 am Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo Island Wharf practitioners who share their ethos Bookings required the program contemplates and 2 pm Cockatoo Island Wharf to Sydney Olympic Park Wharf of food and food sharing as a honours existence and oblivion Free (Bookings required) generative activity that can birth new (your own). Experience your La Perouse understandings. future. No watchers please. Cultural Experience Presented by the Powerhouse Museum and the Triangle Network. 3.30 pm – 7 pm La Perouse Museum Andrew Rewald: $30 (Bookings required) DAY 71 Reimagining the Two leading Aboriginal guides and SATURDAY 23 MAY storytellers will take guests on a Urban Landscape spiritual journey at La Perouse, 4 pm NIRIN HAIVETA finishing with traditional Aboriginal Yerrabingin Indigenous Rooftop Farm fare under the stars. Free (Bookings required) 10 am Presented by Randwick City Council Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo Island Wharf NIRIN HAIVETA will transport Western Sydney residents from Sydney 2 pm Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo Island for free every Saturday. Cockatoo Island Wharf to Interpreting and abstracting Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian Sydney Olympic Park Wharf tattoo motifs, Melbourne arts and cultural collective BE., in collaboration STARTTS: TALKS AND PERFORMANCES with Rosman Cruises, have created a vessel that celebrates women’s Free (Bookings required) mark-making through visual representation and interpretation. SATURDAY 6 JUNE – MONDAY 8 JUNE NIRIN HAIVETA will transport Western Supported by Noakes Group. 12 pm – 1.30 pm Sydney residents from Sydney Cockatoo Island Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo Island for free every Saturday. NIRIN Film Program Free Reading Oceania 4 pm 2 pm – 5 pm The Old Clare Hotel Marrickville Library Pavilion, Free Blue Mountains Patyegarang Place Artist Camp Free The Old Clare Hotel presents a series of powerful short films by artists Spearheaded by Seini ‘SistaNative’ 10 am – 12 pm including Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste Taumoepeau, Reading Oceania: Mount Victoria / Bell (Chile) and the short documentary Revising the Ritual of Oceanic Free (Bookings required) Our Land is Gone – Mama Malind Su Oratory is a performative feast that Hilang (2012, West Papua) directed by Established as a gathering place to explores collective navigational Nanang Sujana. talk about art and exchange ideas, processes and ethics deeply anchored Blue Mountains Artist Camp was in Oceanic Indigenous experience. created by Dharug artist Chris Tobin. Supported by Inner West Council. Join Chris and his artist sister, Leanne If NIRIN proposes that the edge is where we imagine the future, then Tobin, on Dharug Country for a yarn STARTTS (NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Trauma DAY 73 and a feed by Indigenous caterers, and Torture Survivors) is at the centre of transformational experiences. MONDAY 25 MAY Kallico Catering. For the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, STARTTS will present several events DAY 72 from a monumental performance by a group of Tamil drummers to public SUNDAY 24 MAY talks and gatherings including a look at female creatives working at the Tony Albert: Guided Tours: intersection of art, architecture and design in Australia, India and Sri Healing Land, Cockatoo Island Lanka. See our website for details. Remembering Country Our Path: Linda Kennedy 11 am and 2 pm Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 10 am – 2 pm 10 am – 5 pm Join Andrew Rewald and the team Cockatoo Island Cockatoo Island, Biloela House Free (Bookings required) at Yerrabingin – Australia’s first DAY 69 Free Free Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Indigenous rooftop farm – for a talk THURSDAY 21 MAY and demonstration on water saving Share thoughts and wishes for an Join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin and drought resistant native crops alternative narrative for children woman, every Sunday on Cockatoo Island for a series of creative Tony Albert: through Aboriginal permaculture and young people who were – practices, with a tasting of native edible and are – incarcerated, as part workshops that share culture, DAY 74 Healing Land, history and politics, encouraging plants. This event will highlight plant– of the revegetation project at TUESDAY 26 MAY Remembering Country food–people relationships through the the Blacktown Native Institution. continued conversations at home. 10 am – 2 pm cycle of human created ecologies that Guided Tour: Parramatta Cockatoo Island connect people to place. Movers & Makers MzRizk: Ahla Wa Sahlan Free 10 am – 5 pm Female Factory Precinct 10 am – 6 pm Share thoughts and wishes for an Parramatta Artists’ Studios National Art School, 11 am alternative narrative for children Free Cell Block Theatre Parramatta Female Factory Precinct and young people who were – and Free Free (Bookings required) Parramatta Artists’ Studios is a centre are – incarcerated, as part of the that nurtures and supports artists A tribute to Lebanon, MzRizk’s Discover the stories and history of this revegetation project at the Blacktown significant site. Native Institution. 24 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 Guided Tours: The Long Table is a non-hierarchical Tony Albert: Projections #4 + NIRIN MzRizk: Ahla Wa Sahlan model devised by New York artist Lois Cockatoo Island Healing Land, 2 pm 10 am – 5 pm Weaver to facilitate connection and Art Gallery of NSW National Art School, 11 am and 2 pm conversation around difficult topics. Remembering Country Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Free Cell Block Theatre For the Site of Conscience, audiences 10 am – 2 pm Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island Filmmaker Leah Gordon follows Free are invited to join a curated series Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. of speakers at the Long Table and Free contemporary Haitian artists Jean A tribute to Lebanon, MzRizk’s contribute to the dialogue. Herard Celeur, Andre Eugene, immersive audio work highlights the Share thoughts and wishes for an Presented with Parramatta Female Jean Claude Saintilus and Guyodo importance of music and sound in the alternative narrative for children Factory Precinct and PYT Fairfield. (Frantz Jacques) into their studios, construct of cultural identity. and young people who were – and on the Grand Rue, in the ghetto in Port are – incarcerated, as part of the DAY 75 au Prince. Her film Atis Rezistans; The revegetation project at the Blacktown Guided Tours: WEDNESDAY 27 MAY Sculptures of Grand Rue (2008, Haiti) Native Institution. Cockatoo Island DAY 77 is a glimpse into a culture steeped in African and Haitian traditions. 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Guided Tour: FRIDAY 29 MAY Amala Groom Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Campbelltown Arts Centre and Joel Bray: Free (Bookings required) Unbound Collective: 10 am – 11 am Guided Tours: The Repatriation Project Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Campbelltown Arts Centre In the Hold Cockatoo Island 10 am – 5 pm Free 5 pm – 5.45 pm 11 am and 2 pm Cockatoo Island Sydney Observatory Unbound Collective: Join our guided tour of the works in Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Free Free (Bookings required) the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. In the Hold Free (Bookings required) A cheeky nod to the 250th anniversary In the Hold responds to radioactive 1.30 pm – 3 pm Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. of colonisation, The Repatriation ideas of deep colonialism. This Sydney Observatory ARTplay Project pays homage to the resilience performative work enacts the Free (Bookings required) 10 am – 11 am and 11 am – 12 pm and survival of the First Peoples quietness of sovereignty through Life (and Death) Take this opportunity to meet with Museum of Contemporary Art of Australia. Lead artists Joel Bray activism, spoken word, music and Unbound Collective and learn more Australia: Level 3 in the Abstract and Amala Groom invite members installation projections. about their practice, processes and $7 per family / Free entry for MCA 1.30 pm – 3 pm of the public to participate in the Presented by the Powerhouse Museum. filming of a pop-up participatory performance outcomes. Family Members Abel Tasman Village, Chester Hill installation at Cockatoo Island Presented by the Powerhouse Museum Free (Bookings required) Engage all the senses in this with the provocation ‘What would weekly creative play session I.C.E. invites you to exercise, dance you hand back to the Coloniser?’. Unbound Collective: for children 5 years and under. and make art with frail and dementia- DAY 79 affected residents of Abel Tasman In the Hold Guided Tours: SUNDAY 31 MAY Tony Albert: Village. Led by artists Naomi Oliver, 5 pm – 5.45 pm Liam Benson and Victoria Harbutt, Cockatoo Island Sydney Observatory Healing Land, DJ Black President and Care 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Amala Groom Free (Bookings required) Remembering Country Manager, Sophia Markwell, Cockatoo Island, Information Hub and Joel Bray: In the Hold responds to radioactive 10 am – 2 pm the program contemplates and Free (Bookings required) The Repatriation Project ideas of deep colonialism. This Cockatoo Island honours existence and oblivion (your own). Experience your Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. 10 am – 5 pm performative work enacts the Free future. No watchers please. Cockatoo Island quietness of sovereignty through Share thoughts and wishes for an Free activism, spoken word, music and alternative narrative for young people installation projections. who were – and are – incarcerated, as MCA ARTBAR: Presented by the Powerhouse Museum. part of the revegetation project at the NIRIN Edition RENAISSANCE SCHOLARS & Blacktown Native Institution. 7.30 pm – 11 pm NEW AGE NOISE COLLECTIVE Auslan Tour Museum of Contemporary Art 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm $25 / $19 MCA Members and MARCH – MAY Guided Tours: Art Gallery of NSW concession (first release) Art Gallery of NSW Cockatoo Island Free (Bookings required) $36 / $29 MCA Members and 11 am and 2 pm concession (second release) Join an artist from the deaf community Cockatoo Island, Information Hub $44 / $36 MCA Members and for a tour of the 22nd Biennale of Free (Bookings required) Sydney. Delivered in Auslan and concession (third release) interpreted into English, this tour is for Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. The 22nd Biennale of Sydney will visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing. light up the night with a special NIRIN edition of ARTBAR, set against the unforgettable backdrop DAY 76 of VIVID Sydney. Framed within DAY 80 THURSDAY 28 MAY ceremony, the MCA will transform through performances, music MONDAY 1 JUNE and interactive experiences that Tony Albert: celebrate the power of tradition, Healing Land, connection and collaboration. Our Path: Uncle John Visit our website for full program. Remembering Country Kelly and Rena Shein 10 am – 3 pm 10 am – 2 pm Cockatoo Island, Biloela House Cockatoo Island Renaissance Scholars (an experimental enrichment program for students in Free (Bookings required) Free DAY 78 Years 7–10 at Granville Boys High School) and New Age Noise Collective Uncle John Kelly and Rena Shein invite Share thoughts and wishes for an (a group of gender diverse young people from Western Sydney engaged SATURDAY 30 MAY families on a day of yarns, art making alternative narrative for children in critical discussion and exploration of ‘voice’ and ‘platform’) – both led by and storytelling. Uncle John and Rena and young people who were – and I.C.E. – team up/muscle up to critique and debate elements of NIRIN at the are working with young people and are – incarcerated, as part of the NIRIN HAIVETA Art Gallery of NSW, especially issues and interpretations of race, gender their families in Kempsey as part of the revegetation project at the Blacktown and migration. They will be attending the Biennale from March til May. If you 10 am Biennale’s Our Path program. Native Institution. Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to notice them (you will), speak to them. Together, they will observe, confer, Cockatoo Island Wharf swap and trade opinions … and report back via a public program in June. Guided Tours: Guided Tours: 2 pm Cockatoo Island Wharf to Cockatoo Island Cockatoo Island A cheeky nod to the 250th anniversary Sydney Olympic Park Wharf 11 am and 2 pm of colonisation, The Repatriation 11 am and 2 pm Free (Bookings required) Pop-Up Wash-Up! Project pays homage to the resilience Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 12 pm – 3.30 pm NIRIN HAIVETA will transport Western and survival of the First Peoples Free (Bookings required) Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island, Industrial Precinct Sydney residents from Sydney of Australia. Lead artists Joel Bray Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Free Olympic Park Wharf to Cockatoo and Amala Groom invite members Island for free every Saturday. Join artists Lucas Ihlein and Kim of the public to participate in the Unbound Collective: Reading NIRIN: Williams in collaboration with filming of a pop-up participatory NIRIN NGAAY Blue Mountains Cockatoo Island café Societé installation at Cockatoo Island In the Hold Overboard for Pop-Up Wash-Up!, with the provocation ‘What would 6 pm – 8 pm Artist Camp 5 pm – 5.45 pm a fun performance that poses the you hand back to the Coloniser?’. Sydney Observatory Customs House 10 am – 12 pm question: Can we imagine a world Free (Bookings required) Mount Victoria / Bell Free (Bookings required) without plastic? Our Path: Linda Kennedy The NIRIN NGAAY reading group Free (Bookings required) In the Hold responds to radioactive 10 am – 5 pm ideas of deep colonialism. This is an opportunity to engage with the Established as a gathering place to Artist Talk: Barbara Cockatoo Island, Biloela House performative work enacts the innovative texts, writers and artists talk about art and exchange ideas, quietness of sovereignty through featured in the Biennale reader, Blue Mountains Artist Camp was McGrady and John Free activism, spoken word, music and NIRIN NGA AY. created by Dharug artist Chris Tobin. Join Linda Kennedy, a Yuin woman, Janson-Moore installation projections. Join Chris and his artist sister, Leanne every Sunday on Cockatoo Island for 1 pm – 2 pm Presented by the Powerhouse Museum. Sites of Conscience Tobin on Dharug Country for a yarn Campbelltown Arts Centre a series of creative workshops that and a feed by Indigenous caterers, share culture, history and politics, Long Table Free Kallico Catering. encouraging continued conversations 1 pm – 3 pm Exhibiting artist Barbara McGrady will at home. Parramatta Female Factory Precinct offer insight into her artistic practice, Free (Bookings required) influences and inspiration with photographer John Janson-Moore.

25 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 MCA Sounds on DAY 85 Join us for the unveiling of the PROGRAM the Terrace Blacktown native Institution site, as SATURDAY 6 JUNE an artist. Experience ceremony and 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm cultural performances and meet Museum of Contemporary Art BOOKINGS www.biennaleofsydney.art/events NIRIN HAIVETA Dharug artists Venessa Possum, Australia: Level 4 Leanne Tobin and Leanne Watson Free 10 am whose onsite installations will further DAY 81 Tony Albert: Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to explore the storying of the site. TUESDAY 2 JUNE Healing Land, Experience the magic of Circular Quay Cockatoo Island Wharf Remembering Country from the prime vantage point of the 2 pm MCA Terrace then check out NIRIN 10 am – 2 pm Cockatoo Island Wharf to Our Path: Uncle John til 9pm – perfect for those who can’t Sydney Olympic Park Wharf Cockatoo Island visit the gallery during working hours. Kelly and Rena Shein Free (Bookings required) DAY 86 Free 10 am – 3 pm NIRIN HAIVETA will transport SUNDAY 7 JUNE Share thoughts and wishes for an Cockatoo Island, Biloela House NIRIN Film Program Western Sydney residents from alternative narrative for children (Bookings required) 8.30 pm Sydney Olympic Park Wharf to Free and young people who were – and The Gulbangali QT Sydney, Screening Room Cockatoo Island for free every Uncle John Kelly and Rena Shein are – incarcerated, as part of the Dharug Nura Project: invite families on a day of yarns, $30 screening Saturday. revegetation project at the Blacktown NIRIN Gathering art making and storytelling. Native Institution. Visit our website for film listings. NIRIN Performances 10 am – 1 pm Oakhurst, Blacktown Native Institution Guided Tours: Our Path: Uncle John 10 am – 11 am Free Cockatoo Island Kelly and Rena Shein Aesop Sydney DAY 83 View site-specific art installations 11 am and 2 pm Free 10 am – 3 pm and speak to the Dharug custodians THURSDAY 4 JUNE Intimate performances by NIRIN Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Cockatoo Island, Biloela House and artists to learn about the artists held in Aesop Sydney’s Free (Bookings required) Free (Bookings required) incredible history of the site, and amphitheatre. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Uncle John Kelly and Rena Shein Tony Albert: the plans for her future. invite families on a day of yarns, Healing Land, Tony Albert: Unbound Collective: art making and storytelling. Remembering Country Our Path: Uncle John Healing Land, In the Hold 10 am – 2 pm Kelly and Rena Shein Guided Tours: Cockatoo Island Remembering Country 5 pm – 5.45 pm 10 am – 3 pm 10 am – 2 pm Sydney Observatory Cockatoo Island Free Cockatoo Island, Biloela House Cockatoo Island Free (Bookings required) 11 am and 2 pm Share thoughts and wishes for an Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Free In the Hold responds to radioactive alternative narrative for young people Uncle John Kelly and Rena Shein Share thoughts and wishes for an ideas of deep colonialism. This Free (Bookings required) who were – and are – incarcerated, as invite families on a day of yarns, art alternative narrative for children performative work enacts the Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. part of the revegetation project at the making and storytelling. and young people who were – and quietness of sovereignty through Blacktown Native Institution. are – incarcerated, as part of the Guided Tours: activism, spoken word, music and Club Ate: Bhenji Ra revegetation project at the Blacktown Cockatoo Island installation projections. Our Path: Uncle John Native Institution. Presented by the Powerhouse Museum. and Sitti Obeso Kelly and Rena Shein 11 am, 12 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm 12 pm – 1.30 pm Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 10 am – 3 pm Powerhouse Museum Our Path: Uncle John Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island, Biloela House Free (Bookings required) Kelly and Rena Shein Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Free (Bookings required) 10 am – 3 pm Uncle John Kelly and Rena Shein Cockatoo Island, Biloela House invite families on a day of yarns, Artist Talks Free (Bookings required) LIFE (AND DEATH IN THE ABSTRACT) art making and storytelling. 12 pm – 1.30 pm Uncle John Kelly and Rena Shein Cockatoo Island, Information Hub EVERY FRIDAY IN MARCH, APRIL AND MAY (EXCEPT 10 AND 17 APRIL) invite families on a day of yarns, Free (Bookings required) 1.30 pm – 3 pm Guided Tours: art making and storytelling. Cockatoo Island Exhibiting artists will offer insight Abel Tasman Village, Chester Hill into their artistic practice, influences 11 am and 2 pm Free (Bookings required) Artist Talks and inspiration for the works on Cockatoo Island, Information Hub 12 pm – 1.30 pm display. Visit our website for the full Free (Bookings required) Cockatoo Island, Information Hub program of artist talks in each venue. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Free (Bookings required)

Exhibiting artists will offer insight into Closing Celebration their artistic practice, influences and 2 pm – 6 pm inspiration for the works on display. $30 / $25 concession DAY 84 Visit our website for the full program FRIDAY 5 JUNE of artist talks in each venue. Celebrate the last weekend of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney from the rooftop of The Old Clare Our Path: Uncle John Youth-led Guided Tours: Hotel with MzRizk on the decks! Kelly and Rena Shein 12 pm – 12.30 pm and 2 pm – 2.30 pm Museum of Contemporary Art Club Ate: 10 am – 3 pm Australia Cockatoo Island, Biloela House Free Phasmahammer Free (Bookings required) The MCA Young Guides are a group (fka Justin Shoulder) Uncle John Kelly and Rena Shein of 15 to 21-year old volunteers who 7 pm – 9.30 pm invite families on a day of yarns, I.C.E. invites you to exercise, dance and make art with frail and dementia- are trained to give public tours and Powerhouse Museum affected residents of Abel Tasman Village. Led by artists Naomi Oliver, art making and storytelling. bring their unique perspectives to the $30 / $25 concession Liam Benson and Victoria Harbutt, DJ Black President and Care Manager, Museum’s exhibitions and collections. Sophia Markwell, the program contemplates and honours existence and Guided Tours: Join this smart, thought-provoking AE: Jaws of the Horizon is an accumulative body {of work} by oblivion (your own). Experience your future. No watchers please. Cockatoo Island tours exploring the themes of NIRIN at the MCA. Meet in the foyer – look out Phasmahammer (fka Justin Shoulder): 11 am and 2 pm for the green ‘Tour Starts Here’ sign! a collective of beasts arranged Cockatoo Island, Information Hub in resistance to articulate this This exchange between teacher and Free (Bookings required) cosmo-ecological epic. The evening Club Ate: Bhenji Ra culminates into a celebration that DAY 82 student is a generous sharing of a Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. relationship sustained by periodic and Sitti Obeso marks the end of NIRIN WIR and WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE the closing weekend of the 22nd visits to home country (Philippines), 12 pm – 1.30 pm Artist Talks Biennale of Sydney. the sharing of personal ephemera, and Powerhouse Museum Presented by the Powerhouse Museum Guided Tour: online messages across the Pacific. 12 pm – 1.30 pm Free (Bookings required) Presented by the Powerhouse Museum. Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Campbelltown Arts Centre This exchange between teacher and Free (Bookings required) 10 am – 11 am student is a generous sharing of a Campbelltown Arts Centre Unbound Collective: Exhibiting artists will offer insight into relationship sustained by periodic DAY 87 Free (Bookings required) their artistic practice, influences and visits to home country (Philippines), In the Hold MONDAY 8 JUNE Join our guided tour of the works in inspiration for the works on display. the sharing of personal ephemera, and 5.30 pm – 7 pm the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Visit our website for the full program of online messages across the Pacific. Sydney Observatory artist talks in each venue. Presented by the Powerhouse Museum. Free (Bookings required) Our Path: Uncle John Kelly and Rena Shein ARTplay In the Hold responds to radioactive The Gulbangali 10 am – 11 am and 11 am – 12 pm ideas of deep colonialism and enacts Dharug Nura Project: 10 am – 3 pm Museum of Contemporary Art Cockatoo Island, Biloela House the quietness of sovereignty through NIRIN Gathering Australia: Level 3 activism, spoken word, music and Free (Bookings required) 3 pm – 8 pm $7 per family / Free entry for MCA installation projections. Oakhurst, Blacktown Native Institution Uncle John Kelly and Rena Shein Family Members Presented by the Powerhouse Museum. Free invite families on a day of yarns, art Engage all the senses in this making and storytelling. weekly creative play session for children 5 years and under.

26 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 Guided Tours: Cockatoo Island IMAGE CREDITS 11 am and 2 pm Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Page 5 | MESSAGE FROM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Page 14 | GHOST WRITER: COMMUNITY POSTER PROJECT Free (Bookings required) NIRIN artist announcement and media briefing (from left) Andrew Rewald, Brian Fuata, Points of departure 1-3, 2014, performance at the Australian Lucas Ihlein, Kim Williams, Jota Mombaça, Mz Rizk, Karla Dickens, Brook Centre for Contemporary Art. Join our guides for a 45-minute tour. Andrew, Dr Peter Yanada McKenzie, Joseph Williams, Fabian Brown and Rupert Betheras. Photgraph: Joshua Morris Page 14 | UNBOUND COLLECTIVE: IN THE HOLD Artist Talks Unbound Collective, Sovereign Acts: OBJECT, performance for The National: New Australian Art (2019) 12 pm – 1.30 pm Page 7 | NIRIN YARN WITH DION BEASLEY Dion Beasley and Johanna Bell, Dog Police, Northern Editions Cockatoo Island, Information Hub Page 19 | CLUB ATE: BHENJI RA & SITTI OBESO Free (Bookings required) Page 7 | aabaakwad 2020: NIRIN Photograph: Katy Green Loughrey Exhibiting artists will offer Adrian Stimson, Buffalo Boy Rides, 2013 (performance still). insight into their artistic practice. Photograph: Clark Ferguson. Courtesy the artist. Page 19 | THE FLAG PROJECT Photograph: Greta Balog Life (and Death) Page 8 | PRIVATE TOUR: NIRIN Cockatoo Island. Courtesy of Airview Online Page 20 | OUR PATH: UNCLE JOHN in the Abstract Courtesy the artist 1.30 pm – 3 pm Page 8 | SARAH HOUBOLT’S AUDIO WALKS Abel Tasman Village, Chester Hill Sarah Houbolt, digital photograph Page 22 | STORIES WE NEVER TELL Free (Bookings required) Women of Parramatta Walking Tour, 2019. Photograph: Cassandra Hannagan. Page 9 | BLACKTOWN NATIVE INSTITUTION GATHERINGS I.C.E. invites you to exercise, dance Tony Albert, detail from an artist concept book for the 22nd Biennale of Page 24 | STARTTS and make art with frail and dementia- Sydney, 2019, mixed media. Photograph: Alex Robinson, Courtesy the Courtesy the artist affected residents of Abel Tasman artist and Sullivan+Strumpf Village. Led by I.C.E. artists and staff Page 24 | NIRIN HAIVETA and Care Manager, Sophia Markwell, Page 10 | NIRIN NGAAY Photograph: Emily McTaggart the program contemplates and Aesop The Rocks. Photograph: Stuart MacBride honours existence and oblivion (your Page 25 | RENAISSANCE SCHOLARS & NEW AGE NOISE COLLECTIVE own). Experience your future. No Page 10 | TRUE NOURISNMENT Renaissance Scholars at Common Knowledge and Learning Curves by watchers please. Sydney MAD Mondays. Courtesy of MAD. Photograph: Adrian Cook Keg D Souza at Artspace. Photograph: Julia Mendel

Page 12 | GINA ATHENA ULYSSE Page 26 | LIFE (AND DEATH) IN THE ABSTRACT Gina Athena Ulysse, The Wall, 2019. Courtesy the artist. Information + Cultural Exchange, June Butterworth, Creativity Village program, Photograph: Gina Athena Ulysse Abel Tasman Village, 2019. photograph: Sam Holt

Page 12 | TO COOK COOK OR NOT Page 28 | NIRIN HAIVETA Ripple Effect. Photograph: Charlie Lee Photograph: Emily McTaggart

Page 13 | BREAKING BREAD Page 28 | SOVEREIGN IDEAS Reza Khota, Kitchen shenanigans, performance at Sorcery - A Theo Parrish Matika Wilbur Profile Courtesy artist tribute, 2019, Breaking Bread, Cape Town, South Africa

Page 13 | MOVERS & MAKERS PAS Studio Artists 2020, Photograph: Jacquie Manning

ARTWORK TRANSPORT VOLUNTEER its what we do AT THE 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 March – 8 June 2020

The Biennale of Sydney would not If you are aged 16+ and would like be possible without a community of to volunteer with us, please apply at generous and enthusiastic volunteers. biennaleofsydney.art/get-involved/ volunteer or call Ashleigh Harrington If you love arts and culture, our on 02 8484 8111. volunteer program is an opportunity to develop your skills and provide valuable All volunteers receive free public ‘DALE FRANK’, courtesy of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Neon Parc, Melbourne. support to the largest contemporary art transport when travelling to and exhibition in the Asia Pacific! from the Biennale of Sydney. - Climate & Non Climate secure storage, Fine art packing Melbourne: 03 9329 7580 - International exhibition project management Sydney: 02 9696 1471 - Daily metro services and scheduled weekly art shuttles Brisbane: 07 3899 5643 MAJOR GOVERNMENT PARTNERS PRINCIPAL PATRON between Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane Adelaide: 03 9329 7580

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27 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 LEARNING EVERY TUESDAY– SOVEREIGN IDEAS BOOKINGS www.biennaleofsydney.art/learn FRIDAY WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL NIRIN HAIVETA FOR STUDENTS UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT 12 pm – 2.30 pm SESSIONS 22ND Sydney Town Hall, Centennial Hall BIENNALE OF SYDNEY Free (2020): NIRIN IN FOCUS 10.30 am, 11.30 am, 12 noon Art Gallery of NSW Free (Stages 2–3) $165 per 15 students in Stages 4–6 (60 mins with an art-making focus) $180 per 15 students in Stages 4–6 (90 mins with an art-making focus) $225 per 15 students in Stages 4–6 (120 mins with an art-making focus)

Be an art detective and shine a light on the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Explore how artists experiment with colour and form and make their mark on the art world.

Sovereign Ideas, a special event for 300 Indigenous students from Launched in 1947, NIRIN HAIVETA (previously known as Radar) is the “mother” schools across Australia, will take place at Sydney Town Hall on 29 of the Rosman fleet. She remained in continuous service for more than 60 WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH April – the 250th anniversary of Cook’s landing in Australia. Highlighting years and has undergone a complete refurbishment for the Biennale of Sydney. the careers of iconoclastic young cultural thinkers and leaders from First TEACHER SALON: Nations around the world, Sovereign Ideas presents an encouraging For many thousands of years, Pacific Islanders took long voyages across the narrative of possibilities that counter stereotypes, stigmas and tropes. ocean upon hand-carved boats, creating safe passages for trade and to share ARTEXPRESS + 22ND Influential artists and thinkers confirmed to present at Sovereign Ideas culture with one another. One of these cultural practices was the art of tatu/ BIENNALE OF SYDNEY include Matika Wilbur, a photographer belonging to the Swinomish tatau. Interpreting and abstracting Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian 5 pm and Tulalip people of the State of Washington, co-creator of the All My tattoo motifs, Melbourne arts and cultural collective BE., in collaboration with Relations podcast, and founder of Project 562. Through Project 562, Rosman Cruises, have created a vessel that celebrates women’s mark-making Art Gallery of NSW $10 includes glass of wine Matika has photographed members of all 562 Native American sovereign through visual representation and interpretation. nations in the United States, and the project aims to overcome historical (Bookings essential) inaccuracies, stereotypical representations, and silenced Native American NIRIN HAIVETA is free of charge for school groups. Come and be inspired by art! At voices in the media. Also presenting is Dr Emalani Case, lecturer in Pacific Supported by Noakes Group. our regular teacher salons, you can Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, and scholar, activist, view the latest exhibitions, explore writer and dancer who is deeply engaged in issues of dietary colonialism On the island students will make connections across places and times, as ideas with Gallery experts, and and food sovereignty, art and activism, political independence, and they engage with contemporary artworks from the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. ignite your creative approaches in environmental and social justice. Exclusively for students. Supported by Our inquiry-based tours, workshops and resources offer authentic learning the classroom. Stay on longer and The Balnaves Foundation experiences that extend beyond the classroom. Education activities will take network with your colleagues at the place in the Cockatoo Island education space, Biloela House, located at the regular Art After Hours program. top of the island. FRIDAY 27 MARCH – FRIDAY 22 MAY –

Register a self-guided visit at Cockatoo Island and your group is free to SATURDAY 28 MARCH SATURDAY 23 MAY independently explore the Biennale with access to our learning resources, FRIDAY 27 MARCH including audio guides, or book an educator-led tour, providing students WORKING WITH CREATIVE CAREERS with a tailored experience of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney BIENNALE IN ($120, 30 students maximum). YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE EXPO FOCUS: TEACHER ARTS: PROFESSIONAL TBA For ferry or tour bookings, please contact PROFESSSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Campbelltown Arts Centre [email protected]; or book online at DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Free biennaleofsydney.art/learn; or 02 8484 8702 9 am – 3 pm 10.30 am – 4.30 pm (Friday) The Creative Careers Expo is packed Museum of Contemporary Art 1 pm – 4.30 pm (Saturday) with inspirational presentations and STUDENT RESOURCES Australia Museum of Contemporary Art workshops with artists and industry $135 general admission Australia professionals designed to equip young Students can engage with the exhibition, artists or themes through $120 member $185 2-day pass people with knowledge of post-school a series of inquiry questions available at biennaleofsydney.art/learn. $110 pre-service teachers and $150 MCA members / concession education options and understanding Through independent investigation of their inquiry questions and application of diverse career paths in the teachers from lower SES schools Join peers and advocates from the of critical thinking skills, students build knowledge about art and generate creative industries. Extending over Hear from a Biennale artist and youth arts sector for an engaging, conversations about the artworks and the key ideas in the exhibition. two days in 2020, programs include experience the exhibition through hands-on 2-day program led by breakout workshops, artist panels, creative learning strategies led by MCA Young Creative Coordinator practical learning led by artists and MCA artist educators. This event is NIRIN Podcast Series and 2018 Churchill Fellow Jo tertiary institutions, and group ‘speed an opportunity to workshop ideas Higgins and a team of MCA Young meets’ with presenting artists. The with colleagues and our team to In this series of podcasts, we look closely at the artists, artworks and themes Creatives alumni. Through this program is designed for high school shape your student’s engagement of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Before your visit to the exhibition, download experience, you will learn more students, recent school leavers and with the exhibition, and is suitable the six themed audio guides: about creative youth development, job seekers, as well as young people for early childhood, primary and 1. Sites of incarceration and Sydney colonial histories featuring National how to build informal youth-led arts outside the formal education system. Art School archivist and historian Deborah Beck and Parragirl secondary teachers and educators. programs and develop strategies Bonney Djuric for advocacy and evaluation. This 2. Pre-contact and land management workshop is for anyone interested in, or already working with, young For more information on 3. Lived experience and access: a field recording addressing SATURDAY 28 MARCH learning programs at all accessibility issues and sound artwork performed by Sarah Houbolt people in the cultural sector, 4. Youth perspectives about contemporary art in collaboration with including gallery or museum staff, Biennale venues, visit Campbelltown Arts Centre NIRIN IN PRINT: youth workers, teachers, artists biennaleofsydney.art/learn. 5. Educator-led discussions about NIRIN featuring Brook Andrew and TEACHER and youth development officers. a panel of educators PROFESSIONAL 6. “Celebrity” walkthrough of selected artworks on Cockatoo Island DEVELOPMENT WEDNESDAY Broadcaster and writer Namila Benson also interviews 10 NIRIN artists about WORKSHOP 1 AND 8 APRIL their work, practice and the cultural and socio-political landscape that grounds 10 am – 4 pm their art making. National Art School CASE STUDY | $120 Follow Biennale of Sydney on Spotify (tiny.cc/biennalesydneyspotify) 22ND BIENNALE as more podcasts and playlists are announced. Learn how to use printmaking as a tool for documenting and mapping OF SYDNEY: NIRIN The Saturday Paper the themes and artists of the 22nd 11 am Biennale of Sydney. Experiment Art Gallery of NSW with a variety of printmaking $5 per student Every week, for 13 weeks, a poster work featured in the Biennale of Sydney will methodologies such as monoprinting, be published in The Saturday Paper. Register at biennaleofsydney.art/learn solvent-transfer and recycled paper Hear curator insights into the to receive a free copy of the paper delivered every week to your classroom. plate etching to create expressive exhibition and investigate the prints using environmentally themes and artists in NIRIN. Case friendly materials. studies are a great way to explore the artworks and the behind-the-scenes content that brings an exhibition from idea to reality.

28 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 EVENT LOCATIONS

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22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY POSTER PROJECT MARCH 14 — JUNE 8, 2020

LHOLA AMIRA, AMIGOS EM PINDORAMA / ABAHLOBO EPINDORAMA I, 2019, EPSON HOT PRESS NATURAL GICLEE MOUNTED DIASEC, 110 X 165 CM, 1 OF 3 +2AP, HR 29 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 THE BIENNALE OF SYDNEY GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES OUR SUPPORTERS

FOUNDING GOVERNOR BIENNALE OF SYDNEY Franco Belgiorno-Nettis AC CBE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Kate Mills (Chairman) COMMUNICATIONS AND FOUNDING PATRONS Geoffrey Cassidy COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Jodie Polutele The Belgiorno-Nettis Family Danielle Earp Head of Communications and Community Engagement Transfield Holdings Johanna Featherstone Paschal Daantos Berry Anne Flanagan Curator, Programs and Learning and Co-Head of PRINCIPAL PATRON Paris Neilson The Neilson Foundation Communications and Community Engagement James Roth Charlotte Galleguillos Morry Schwartz AM GOVERNORS Programs and Learning Manager Naseema Sparks AM FAICD Andrew Cameron AM and Cathy Cameron Emily McTaggart Tea Uglow Johanna Featherstone and Geoff Ainsworth AM Digital Content Manager Rachel Verghis Roslyn and Tony Oxley Chris Wirasinha Ashleigh Harrington Penelope Seidler AM Volunteer Manager BENEFACTION AND Sharon Mifsud AMBASSADORS EVENTS COMMITTEE Programs Producer David Hazlett Paris Neilson, Chair Jack Hammond Medich Foundation Emilya Colliver Digital Producer Kate Mills Patrick Johnson Claude Moelan Vicki Olsson Timothy Klingender Digital Producer John Wardle Ben Latham-Jones Liz Malcolm Publications Coordinator ASSOCIATES Clinton Ng Susan Acret and James Roth Maurice Terzini Rebecca Fortune Signage Coordinator GrantPirrie Private Alyce Tran Ginny and Leslie Green Rachel Verghis Zoe Willox Communications Coordinator Robyn Martin-Weber Chris Wirasinha Greta Balog STAFF Communications Assistant BENEFACTORS Barbara Moore Claire Armstrong and John Sharpe Kristin Liu Chief Executive Officer Community Engagement Assistant Tony Berg AM and Carol Berg Brook Andrew Teresa and Andre Biet Mia Carey Artistic Director, 22nd Biennale of Sydney Volunteer Assistant Alex Bowen and Catherine Sullivan Natalia Ottolenghi Bradshaw EXHIBITIONS Rachel Esse Suzi Carp Cherie Schweitzer Bookings Assistant Geoffrey Cassidy and Mark Baxter Head of Exhibitions DEVELOPMENT Geoff Charnock and Giovanni Munoz Jessyca Hutchens Emily Gardener The Chartwell Trust Curatorial Assistant to the Artistic Director Head of Development Emilya Colliver Greta Morton Lisa Polten Aud and Paolo Cuniberti Curatorial Assistant, Cultural Engagement and Protocol Philanthropy Manager Sally Dan-Cuthbert Sebastian Henry-Jones Katrina Rae James Darling AM and Lesley Forwood Curatorial Assistant Partnerships Manager Heidi Forbes Isabelle Morgan Samantha Jones Julian and Stephanie Grose Exhibition Coordinator Grants, Trusts and Foundations Manager Stephanie and Ian Hardy Julia Greenstreet Chloe Pryce Amanda Harkness and Karen Barrett Exhibition Coordinator Development Coordinator Susan Hilliard and Shane Allen Nikki Van der Horst Susan Hipgrave and Edward Waring Eva Balog Exhibition Assistant and Artist Liaison Guest Relations Assistant Neil Hobbs and Karina Harris Misha Turovskii Mark Hughes Exhibition Assistant FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Dr Michael Joel AM and Anna Joel Alex Robinson Peter Gregory Patrick Johnson Registration Manager Head of Finance and Administration / Company Secretary Timothy Klingender Tori Ferguson Elizabeth Nguyen Julian Knights AO and Lizanne Knights Registration Assistant Accountant Annette Larkin Tegan Anthes Samantha Sudarman Elizabeth Laverty Senior Conservator Executive Assistant to the CEO Lewin Foundation Rebecca Barnott-Clement Sahar Nabinik Amanda and Andrew Love Senior Conservator Administration Coordinator Frederick McDonald Grace Barrand Jan Minchin Conservator Design by Kevin Vo Lisa and Egil Paulsen NIRIN design by Brook Andrew Amber Pavlik Tim Barker Production Manager Brand concept by Judith Pini Alphabet Studio Elizabeth and Philip Ramsden Gotaro Uematsu Audio Visual Projects Manager Andrew Rothery and Julia Champtaloup Gosia Schild Jeremy Skellern Project Production Manager Vivienne Sharpe and Tim McCormick Rena Shein and David Hendler Edward Horne Lawrence Smith and Anthea Williamson Workshop Manager Georgie and Alastair Taylor Kiah Lawson Maurice Terzini Production Assistant Alenka Tindale Alyce Tran Rachel Verghis Chris and Sonya Wirasinha Di Yeldham and Ali Yeldham

And those donors who wish to remain anonymous.

30 22ND BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2020 PARTNERS

Major Government Partners Principal Patron

Exhibition Partners

Major Partners

Distinguished Partners

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Contributing Partners

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Tertiary Partners

Art & Design

Media Partners

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