All At Once… is a large-scale cane and bamboo installation that unfolds like a living system: a tall central dome surrounded by a constellation of smaller interconnected structures. Covered in translucent paper membranes, the work appears organic, something part-built, part-grown, and open for people to gently move through.
Each space has its own character. Some look back – offering encounters with stories, textures and traces of the region’s history, shaped by its geology and biodiversity.
Others hint toward what might come next. Visitors travel between these “nodes” at their own pace, discovering shifts in light, sound, scale and atmosphere.
connection, reflection, or simply enjoyment of the structure itself.
At the heart of the installation sits the Now Dome – a generous central space designed for pause, presence and contribution. Here, people are invited (not instructed) to leave small drawings, notes, thoughts or quiet gestures on the walls, building a collective record over the festival’s duration. It’s a space that holds possibility rather than prescribing meaning.
Moving outward again, the final nodes gesture toward imagined futures – speculative, fragile, playful, uncertain. They don’t answer the questions they raise; instead, they create room for curiosity about what resilience, creativity and community might look like in the years ahead.
Venue:
Castlemaine Goods Shed, Castlemaine, Victoria, 3450
12 artists & scientists from SciArty:
• Laura Jade & Leslie Marsh
• Alice Steel & Madeleine Somers
• Kathy Landvogt
• Eliza Jane Gilchrist
• Ilka White, Tony DeGroot, Karen McMillen
• Nicky Hall
• Jane Rusden & Damian Kelly
