Ensayos members visit Canaipa

Members of the international research collective, Ensayos, visit Canaipa Island and Mudlines, as part of their coastal resaerch.

Continuing their research into coastal ecologies, members of the international research collective, Ensayos, made a visit to Canaipa Island this month. Guiding the group across the diverse sites we have come to know through our regular excursions over the past three years, revealed the island through the inquiring eyes of others. We also made a visit to Tricia Dobson'e studio, where a group of island artists were involved in their own projects, mostly weaving. The visitors were Camila Marambio (Chile / Australia), curator and founder of the program, Ensayos; Christy Gast, (New York), a felter and weaver, with a research interest in “contested landscapes”; Carla Machiavello (Chile / New York), an art historian with a special interest in Latin American contemporary art; and Caitlin Franzman (Australia), an artist whose practice involves the creation of spaces of meeting and what she calls “Divination”. She also teaches art at QUT. Their observations will form part of an international investigation into the special types of learning and knowledges that come from observing and interpreting coastal and island contexts.