00-02 Energy — The time has come to launch the second book in the PLATYPUS Essentials series: 00-02 Energy. Please come to both or one of these events later in July…
Friday 24 July, Wreckers Artspace(upstairs), 6—10pm.
ARTWORKS: Harrison Witsey, Bridget Chappell, Sally Molloy & Lu Forsberg
READINGS FROM 7PM: Ancesstress & Marilena(Muff) Hewitt
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Come celebrate the launch of this new book at Wreckers Artspace alongside an exhibition in the downstairs gallery by Meg Stoios. There will be artworks from the book, readings from Ancestress and Marilena, loads of good conversation and boooks.
LUNCH FROM 1PM: Vego and GF options available.
TALK FROM 2PM: Hear from the field Pedalers: Marilena(Muff) Hewitt(PLATYPUS), Sebastion Henry-Jones (curator and editor), Harrison Witsey (artist), Madeline Brewer(writer) and Henry Reese(historian).
Come celebrate the launch of this new book (again) with a lunch and a chit chat with those involved in the book. This will be a casual and intimate community event to discuss all things energy, Central QLD, arts and ecology. Come ask any questions or just listen us read and chat and soak up the sun.
IMPORTANT: Please BOOK HERE for catering reasons
Who is involved in the book: There are 26 contributions (30+ contributors) from CQ and all over this continent.
The second in the Essentials series, 00-02 Energy publishes an anthology of 26 contributions that explore the varied economic, environmental, queer and First Nations experiences and knowledges connected to ‘energy’ on this continent. What makes these books interesting and different from other arts/literature publications is that they present information gleaned from ‘the field’. There are two parts to the book. Firstly [trans*mission] is inspired by a field trip in the Bowen Basin, a region of Central Queensland (CQ) which has come to characterise Australia’s energy (coal) market. In April 2025, four PLATYPUS artists (including myself) rode pushbikes 400km across Baranha, Biri and Giya lands, through regional mining towns, from Moranbah to Abbot Point coal port near Bowen. This methodology of pedal power helped us grasp the spatial organisation and scale of these sites of extreme entropy, and the histories, cultures and ecologies of regional areas and major industrial towns in CQ. This, as well as continued conversation and research into the geopolitical landscape of CQ, formed the foundation of this guide.
In the second part, [distribution], artists, writers, poets and an ecologist point to potential strategies, new ways of seeing the problems we face, and new ways of coming together around energy justice through art and literature. Here the depth of criticality, poetry, imagination and humour is a testament to the commitment and verve of the small community around PLATYPUS.
CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU THERE (and give ya a big hug),
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Marilena/Muff Hewitt
they/them
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Instead something fuller, vaster, brighter and more empathetic.