program 2026
11 June – 23 July 2026
Know Thy Neighbour: Gestures
Residency with Cara Teusner-Gartland
Design: Kalu Studio
A collaboration with SPACED and Fremantle Buffalo Club
Work In Progress: The project explores Fremantle Buffalo Club, a site known for shared activities and community work, to look at the power of empathy, wellbeing, and connection: a motion in a performance, a charitable act, the muscle memory of billiards stick and dart throwing, and the act of teaching this to a stranger, leaving with a friend. Cara will draw on the Club’s history and interview present members to inform a project that reflects the club’s identity and living history within the broader community of Fremantle.
About the artist:
Cara Teusner-Gartland is a multidisciplinary artist based in Walyalup/Fremantle. Her practice is rooted in community, place, and storytelling. Engaging with painting, drawing, textile, sculpture, installation, performance and sound, Cara documents and builds a holistic familiarity with sites and underlying local narratives. Her process for developing work often involves long dérives, collecting found and recycled materials, interviews, and archival research. Cara completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Curtin University in 2018, majoring in painting. She has worked extensively in gallery and public art installation, both locally and regionally. She has presented work for the Fremantle Biennale and Melville Midwinter Festival, and featured in exhibitions at PS Art Space, Lost Eden Creative, Old Customs House, Lawson Flats, and Goolugatup Heathcote.
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Wednesday, 06 May 6.30-9 pm.
About the film
We Are Guardians is a dramatic and energetic journey into the daring struggle of Indigenous land-defenders in the Brazilian Amazon that connects ecological balance with environmental activism.
The film is a rich, intimate journey meeting the many people who are living an intricate daily balance in the Amazon basin, one of the world’s most disrupted and threatened regions. We follow Indigenous leader and activist Puyr Tembé and forest guardian Marçal Guajajara as they fight to protect their territories from deforestation, as well as an illegal logger who has no choice but to cut the forest down to feed his family, and a large landowner at the mercy of thousands of invaders and extractive industry. Through intimate, character focused storytelling, the film reveals the many intertwined social and economic issues driving this complicated landscape.
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Friday, 24- Sun 26 April
‘Organs, Breathes, Salt’ by Jsuk Han
A site-specific sound installation in which the Naval Store becomes a living organ. Acoustic feedback loops are generated and modulated by interconnected systems: real-time Fremantle weather data — wind speed, humidity, temperature and atmospheric pressure — flocking algorithms that govern the collective behaviour of sound across space, and the resonant frequencies of the microphones and the building itself.
Found objects suspended from the ceiling trusses act as speaker units, connected by cables radiating from a central control system. The installation evolves slowly and unpredictably over the exhibition period, accumulating and shifting like salt itself.
‘Organs, Breathes, Salt’ is an outcome from the ongoing Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre and Incheon Art Platform Artist in Residence reciprocal exchange.
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Wednesday, 01 April 7-9 pm.
About the film
In the mesmerizing experimental film, Maryam Tafakory conjures an archival séance, unpacking the history of Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper.In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film. Using citations and image intervention, Razeh-del journeys through parallel histories of war on images of women.
Local speaker
Born in 1998, Yasamin Khadembashi is an Iranian-Australian multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Australia, living and working on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth, Western Australia). Working across sculptural painting, installation, textiles, and mixed media, her practice interrogates the political construction of the body through diasporic, queer feminist, and anti-colonial frameworks. Born to Iranian immigrant parents, Khadembashi draws upon cultural inheritance alongside histories of resistance to examine the systems that regulate visibility, autonomy, and belonging.
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