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Aida Azin
In the Time of Refuge Collection
MASS MOVEMENT Documentary Short Film
Refuge 2021 Documentary Short Film

Arts House acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, and pay our respect to Elders both past and present and, through them, to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Aida Azin - Stay Climbing. Photo by Bryony Jackson

Stay Climbing

Aida Azin

Aida Azin deploys evocative dream-state symbols to decode the experiences of a third-culture kid. The paintings in Stay Climbing tell several fragmented stories. Together, they create…
Refuge 2016-2021 Map (detail) showing the intricate matrix of people, organisations, projects and connections made over six years.

In the Time of Refuge Collection

A timely collection of writings and reflections on art, disaster and communities.

In the Time of Refuge offers readers an expanded understanding of this six-year project led by Arts House in partnership with Emergency Management Victoria,…
Mass Movement Documentary Short Film. MASS MOVEMENT Folau: The Departure, drone video still, Rey Tan

MASS MOVEMENT Documentary Short Film

Latai Taumoepeau

MASS MOVEMENT contemplates the reality of forced relocation of Pacific people from their submerging island nations. Following the coordinates of saltwater, freshwater and civic…
Refuge 2021 Documentary - Portage: Shelter2Camp by Jen Rae, photo by Bryony Jackson - Two emergency services people wearing high-vis orange uniforms. One with a blond ponytail is holding a rope structure with a woman in a black headscarf

Refuge 2021 Documentary Short Film

For six years Arts House’s annual Refuge program has imagined how we might prepare in the face of a disaster. In 2021 we ask…

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Chris Cheers - Fail Better - A man with short dark hair and dark stubble sits on a blue couch. He is holding a book. There are orange cushions on the couch and a plant in a yellow pot in the background. The man is smiling.

A Recording of Fail Better: A Mental Health Workout

with Arts Psychologist Chris Cheers

A recorded session Presented by Arts House Monday 11 October 2021. Join psychologist Chris Cheers in a gentle but invigorating mental workout that dismantles…
Hope in the Unknown - Nest by Kate Sulan, Refuge 2016: Flood, Photo by Bryony Jackson.

Hope in the Unknown

Kate Sulan

This piece is from the collection, In The Time of Refuge. In the 2016 Refuge Lab, my first encounter with Refuge, Susan Davies from…
Imagining Refuge – Nikos Papastergiadis - Isolate and Contain! Mapping the Pandemic by Harry Lee Shang Lun with PlayReactive, Refuge 2018: Pandemic, Photo by Bryony Jackson.

Imagining Refuge

Nikos Papastergiadis

This piece is from the collection, In The Time of Refuge. This timely book offers an expanded understanding of the importance of the arts…
The simulation is real, rehearsal is over, play’s the thing. David Pledger - Street Plan, Faye Bendrups SES, Refuge 2019: Displacement, Photo by Harjono Djoyobisono

The simulation is real, rehearsal is over, play’s the thing.

David Pledger

This piece is from the collection, In The Time of Refuge. In the non-Indigenous world, modern-day disaster management began in the mid-20th C with…