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Kings Artist-Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers.
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KINGS Artist-Run acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate.

We offer our respect to Elders both past and present and extend this offer to all Australian First Nations people.

: as listening, to wander

co-worm-ing
Dasha Tan
Hina Omukai



20 November 2025–14 December 2025

: as listening, to wander is an exhibition-symposia of new works by curators and creative collaborators, reimagining curatorial practice within the space of production, as the relational act of listening. Supported by a year of excursions and lectures, this project will present the outcomes of our collective research through workshops, publications, exhibitions and cookouts.

 

PUBLIC PROGRAMS SCHEDULE

Join us for a series of guided walks with co-worm-ing🪱

Whilst in-residence, they have made the gallery mobile by kitting out the KINGS Wheelie Bin with a video screen, powered by their car battery 🚶‍♂️

Working offsite at the Queen Victoria Markets, they have been exploring composting as a method for collective curation.

Drawing from the ethos of a community garden working bee, these sessions invite you into shared investigations. Each ‘walking bee’ will offer a different collective practice, including video making, embodied research, and writing.

Teaser Session: 4 – 6pm, Saturday 22nd November – bin activation during exhibition opening 🗑️

Walking Bees:

  • 2 – 4pm, Tuesday 25th November – led by Emily Simek 
  • 2 – 4pm, Tuesday 2nd December – led by Grey Dear
  • 10am – 12pm, Tuesday 9th December – led by Joy Zhou

*please arrive on time at KINGS ARI

 

 

 

Click HERE to view the exhibition roomsheet

Click HERE for a printable booklet layout

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  • co-worm-ing is an interspecies practice between three humans — Grey (nee Caitlin) Dear, Emily Simek, Joy Zhou — and a mobile worm farm, who meet weekly to compost and share space. This process-led collaboration has emerged through various site-responsive and participatory formats, informed by composting methodologies, as well as each person’s independent practice, spanning community gardening, choreography, and spatial programming.
  • Dasha Tan was born in Kulin Nation, with Sakha (Native Siberian), Qazaq, Cantonese (multi-generational settlement in Borneo/Malaya in the rubber tapping industry), Russian and Persian-Dagestani heritage. They interrogate colonial environmental epistemologies of emptiness that have been rendered on both Arctic Siberia and the Qazaqstani desert steppes through scientific concepts, dramaturgy, art direction, choreography, dreaming practices, architectural methodology, transnationalism//political histories, realms of breath, linguistics and performance art. They currently in work in bush regeneration and urban farming, having previously worked in a data centre warehouse.
  • Hina Omukai is an art curator specializing in contemporary Japanese art. She recently completed her Master's degree in Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne.