Locating in Disarray by Juliette Claire

Locating in Disarray is a multisensory performative installation by Juliette Claire, emerging from loss, mourning and ecological grief.

Opening celebration night

Date:Wednesday 9 April

Time: 5-7pm

Yellow abstract installation art Juliette Claire, Untitled (Oxalis), 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.

Locating in Disarray by Juliette Claire

Locating in Disarray is a multisensory performative installation by Juliette Claire, emerging from loss, mourning and ecological grief. The artist draws upon a biophilic methodology, connecting to our innate affinities with the natural world. Juliette’s work is inspired by close personal losses enmeshed in the impacts of the human driven Sixth Mass Extinction. Locating in Disarray engages visitors in sensory encounters, activating the gallery space with aroma, sounds and movement. Her ongoing intention is to build reciprocal relationships with place, people and more-than-human-bodies, situating art practice in opposition to a hierarchical and extractivist approach to life.

Juliette will do performative activations of the installation on 11 April, 16 April and 1 May.

Artist Biography

Juliette Claire is a mixed-media artist based in Naarm, practising on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri People. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art Sculpture (Honours) from RMIT and an Advanced Diploma of Object and Jewellery Design from Melbourne Polytechnic. Juliette’s work focuses on ecological loss and mourning within the web of the Capitalocene (emphasising capitalism’s role in the ecological crisis). Using multisensory installation and performance, her works are spatial, durational and engage the senses. She explores the ephemeral through often biodegradable and immersive installations shaped by durational ‘repetitive acts’ – such as growing flora, harvesting flowers for ink, stringing hundreds of individual flowers to make rope, and walking over plant material to make marks. Juliette’s art practice critiques extractive systems that dominate nature by prioritising reciprocity and imagining other possible futures no longer subsumed by capitalism.

Embodied Entwinements: Writing and Moving through Disarray

Friday 2 May 2025 2pm to 3.15 pm

First Site Gallery
Storey Hall Basement, 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne

Juliette Claire, along with collaborator Michaela Bear, invite visitors to join them for a workshop that invites deeper connection to the natural environment, each other and ourselves in times of turbulence.

10 free spots available on the Humanitix event

We travel forward
you and I
through the motions of change
- Juliette Claire

Participants will witness a performative activation by Juliette and be led through embodied movement and writing activities that respond to the artist’s multisensory exhibition Locating in Disarray in First Site Gallery. The workshop extends exhibition themes, exploring embodied entwinements with the natural world as a way to navigate both internal landscapes and external ecological grief.

No experience required.

All writing materials provided, but you are welcome to bring your favourite writing implements along. If you have allergies please bring antihistamines as there will be plant material in the space.

Pleae note: Sign up for the event is required.

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