The Floating Land 2025: Call for expressions of interest

Floating Land is Australia’s premiere art in the environment event, taking in sites across Noosa. Conceived in 2001 as a biennial outdoor sculptural program, Floating Land sees artists engaging with and working collaboratively with the environment to create projects and installations that leave no trace at the end of the event.

FLOATING LAND: ESCAPE MAKING

INVITING EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

So, we managed a brief escape recently. A group of us got together and left this place behind for a while. Granted, it was only for a few days, but it was enough to make most of us realise that things really could be a lot better.

Prior to this recent escape, we shared that we’d sensed a growing feeling that things had been getting a bit uncertain and tense in the world. Power has been becoming more and more concentrated, and the agency of everyday people is becoming more elusive. The environment is clearly suffering, as are people all over the world, with conflicts and disasters now a common backdrop to other affairs. And then there’s the matter of truth, which was already becoming a slippery beast through a philosophical lens, but now seems to be a damp lump of mouldable clay.

Did we solve any of the world’s problems while we were away? Probably not. But I think we sparked some new ideas and now we’re keen to see if anyone else has they’d like to add. We’re not trying to fix the world with an art installation, but we think they punch above their weight when it comes to keeping the conversation alive.

We’ve shared this before, but the title of the 2025 Floating Land Biennale is Floating Land: Escape making. It takes on the notion that the world is at a tipping point and the idea of abandoning the way we currently live has to be a serious consideration. For some, that might mean changing what we do or how we do it in order to preserve a way of life. For others, it might literally be about making an escape to somewhere else. But making is a proactive thing too. And as creative people, most of us make. This is where you come in.

We are inviting expressions of interest from artists who’d like to contribute projects to the 2025 artistic program. This program will be comprised of projects identified through this EOI process alongside a small number of directly commissioned works.

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APPLICATIONS CLOSE MONDAY 6 JANUARY, 11.59PM

(remember, send your EOIs to floatingland@noosa.qld.gov.au)

KEY DATES

EOIs Open: Friday 22 November, 2024

EOIs Close: Monday 6 January, 2025

Applicants notified of outcome: Friday 31 January, 2025

Floating Land: Escape Making: 28 June – 27 July, 2025

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FLOATING LAND: US AND THEM 2023 PROGRAM

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