ANAT Bespoke :: Re-cultivate 

ANAT Bespoke :: Re-cultivate is a three-month creative partnership between the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), South East Water and FB IDEAS with artist Yandell Walton. This immersive residency reimagines our relationship with water through artistic inquiry and creative innovation, encouraging new ways of thinking about water systems, sustainability, and the future of urban environments. 

As an Innovation Partner, South East Water gains not only access to bold experimental artistic perspectives but also powerful storytelling that transforms complex water management challenges into engaging, relatable narratives—making innovation more accessible, inspiring, and human. In turn, the artist gains access to high level expertise, research and knowledge held and in development through South East Water. 

YANDELL WALTON + SOUTH EAST WATER + FB IDEAS

Yandell Walton (she/they) is a multi-award-winning artist based on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne who creates embodied moving image works with various presentation outcomes, including immersive and interactive installations. Her work is known for blurring lines between the real and the virtual, and exploring ideas of impermanence in relation to environmental, social and political issues.  

Yandell’s work has been widely exhibited in galleries and non-traditional public spaces across Australia and internationally including ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE Festival (Melbourne),Rising Festival (Melbourne), Dark Mofo (Hobart), Light City Festival (Baltimore, USA), VIVID Festival (Sydney), White Night Festival (Melbourne), Experimenta Speak to Me Biennial of Media Art, and PUBLIC Festival (Perth). International Symposium of Electronic Art (Sydney & Brisbane)

Her recent projects navigate the intersections of performance and visual arts, developing innovative workflows that integrate human movement with plant life. This research began during her tenure as the inaugural Phillip Hunter Fellow and through the Australian Network for Art and Technology’s IDEATE grant.

South East Water is a government-owned utility, responsible for providing essential water and sewerage services to the people of Melbourne’s south east. It delivers these high-quality, essential services 24/7 to more than 1.8 million people.

South East Water delivers healthy water for life and is committed to creating a better, more sustainable future. The organisation fosters creativity and collaboration to turn new ideas and technologies into leading solutions for its customers. By questioning what’s possible, challenging conventional approaches, and pursuing outcomes with determination, South East Water continues to build its reputation as one of Australia’s most progressive and vibrant utilities.

Fishermans Bend Innovation Diversity Experimentation and Activation (FB IDEAS) is a new non-profit organisation to nurture incremental and experimental urban renewal and activation during the transformation of Fishermans Bend.

Built on the principles of Innovation, Diversity, Experimentation and Activation, our role is to support a diverse range of activities that seed an innovation culture and attract smaller scale activity ahead of major investments in the area.

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ANAT Bespoke

Previous Bespoke partners include:

CSIRO, who in 2019 hosted artists Carolynne Bourne, James Geurts and Chris Henschke at the CSIRO’s Advanced Manufacturing hub in Melbourne, supported by Creative Victoria.
READ Chris’s creative research journal

AWRI (The Australian Wine Research Institute), in 2019 the residency offered an artist the opportunity to work with the Institute’s Flavour Chemistry and Sensory Research teams. Artist Elizabeth Willing explored the synaesthetic harmony between the flavour of wines and the visual aesthetics of still and moving image.
READ Elizabeth’s creative research journal

SAHMRI (The South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute), who collaborated with ANAT in 2020 and 2021, when resident Dr Helen Pynor undertook collaborative research with Dr Jimmy Breen, leader of the SAHMRI Bioinformatics Platform. Helen and Jimmy explored ideas around the liminality of DNA once it leaves its originating body.
READ Helen’s creative research journal

ANAT is a global leader in brokering opportunities for artists to work with science and technology partners. We do this because we believe artists are essential to how we imagine and shape our future. If your organisation is interested in investing in the transformational nature of interdisciplinary collaboration, please get in touch [email protected]