JANET LAURENCE curated a fantastic programme of events for REQUIEM at the Sydney Festival 2021. Within the ethereal inner chamber of the Paddington Reservoir Gardens on Gadigal land, Janet has curated a stellar line-up of artists and talks exploring how we can mourn and remember the inestimable loss - of animals, of flora, of ecological worlds - wrought by the black summer fires of 2019-2020.
REQUIEM wove together visual art, music, poetry, performance, literature, science, philosophy and environmental advocacy to craft a time-space for us to lament and be present to the reality of loss. Janet also created a new work for the event – ‘Water Bar’ was glistening installation of waters from bushfire-affected regions is an ode to lost aquatic ecosystems.
