Camp overnight or wander the grounds of Bundanon Homestead for the tenth iteration of ‘Siteworks’ on 29 September. This special one-day event invites artists, scientists and the public to explore the environment with works, performances and talks that consider the miniature and microscopic.

French & Mottershead (Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead), Woodland, Bristol. Photograph: Paul Blakemore. Courtesy the artists and Bundanon Trust, New South Wales
‘Stories and Structures’ is an exhibition that draws parallels between the representations seen in many Indigenous works of art and the microscopic structures hidden in the natural world. Artist, Deborah Kelly’s deity-creatures will haunt the natural amphitheatre whereas Emily Hunt has created a microcosmic fantasy inspired by German Renaissance printmaking. Like the 16th century artists, Hunt uses grotesque and satirical images to critique contemporary notions of morality. Along the Shoalhaven River Anna Madeleine will transform inanimate rocks into an augmented reality artwork. All things ‘micro’ will be covered from another angle by a group of speakers including Zenobia Jacobs who will discuss dating geological and archaeological sites with a grain of sand. Andrew Holmes will open up about his freezer collection of poo and study of human gut microbiota, and Simon Mattsson, a farmer from north Queensland, shares how the awareness of soil microbiology and plant diversity can maintain soil health. A number of dance and performance works will criss-cross the landscape from Patrick Nolan with Dance North, to noir a site-responsive piece from ‘one step at a time like this’ (Suzanne Kersten, Clair Korobacz, Julian Rickert), who put you at the centre of an evolving experience through the night comprised of evocative audio-scapes crafted to place the audience in a dream-like, hyper-responsive state.