Artist Talk: Fiona Amundsen, Tim Corballis and Emily Beausoleil

Join artist Fiona Amundsen, writer Tim Corballis, and political theorist Emily Beausoleil as they discuss the importance of listening in their respective and collaborative practices.

Fiona Amundsen’s practice explores how documentary photographic and filmic images can enable a connected, active and caring relationship to the ramifications of painful historical experiences that live on in the present.

Tim Corballis’s writing deals with how political experience can be reflected in the composition of literary text. He is based in Wellington, where he works as a lecturer at the Centre for Science in Society at Victoria University of Wellington.

Corballis and Amundsen have been collaborating since 2004. The Dowse Art Museum is delighted to have hosted their collaborative exhibition, Human Hand: Fiona Amundsen and Tim Corballis (2020).

As part of Fiona Amundsen’s tenure of Fulbright Scholar Award in 2019, Amundsen and Corballis spent time at three sites – the micro-city Arcosanti, talking with people who had resided there since its heyday; Biosphere 2, a closed structure built to model global systems and demonstrate the viability of supporting human life in outer space; and the Titan Missile Museum, home of a Titan II Missile.