"The Unconformity, a biennial four-day arts and culture event taking place in remote Queenstown, western Tasmania, opens with a particular feeling of resilience attached to it this year. Having evolved from a community-run art festival in 2016, in late 2023 it became the only festival to receive multi-year federal funding. For 2025, it is putting on its most ambitious programme to date."
"The latest edition sees 60 place-responsive events featuring 121 local, national and international artists installed across the ravaged Queenstown landscape. The area is home to the once-prosperous Mt Lyell copper mine, which sustained the town for more than 120 years, but also completely devastated the local environment, causing acid rain, poisoning a local river and removing topsoil from hills. The festival's artistic programme is entirely site-responsive-everything, Kronemyer says, is "made in place, and originates here"."
The Unconformity is a biennial four-day arts and culture festival in remote Queenstown, western Tasmania, evolved from a community-run event in 2016 and secured multi-year federal funding in late 2023. The 2025 programme is the festival's most ambitious to date, staging 60 place-responsive events with 121 local, national and international artists across the ravaged landscape. The region bears environmental damage from the Mt Lyell copper mine, including acid rain, river poisoning and topsoil loss. The artistic programme prioritises site-specific work made in place, emphasising environmental resilience and local artists' multi-dimensional relationships to country amid a challenging funding environment.
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