00-02 ENERGY LAUNCH (FREE ENTRY VIA REGISTRATION)

Come and celebrate the launch of 00-02 ENERGY! Enjoy artworks, prints, readings and buy a book!

READINGS FROM 7PM

Ancesstress & Marilena(Muff) Hewitt

ARTWORKS

Harrison Witsey, Bridget Chappell, Sally Molloy & Lu Forsberg

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, a couple of readings, prints and loads of good conversation. You can also purchase this beautiful big boook.

Brief synopsis of PLATYPUS Essentials: 00-02 Energy

I(Muff) am working on a series which hopes to deepen our relationship to the ‘essentials’ — water, energy, food, shelter and waste — and in doing so, sharpen a collective perception in our community of the structures that shape our unsustainable lives.

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.

There are 26 contributions (30+ contributors) from CQ and all over Australia. The book takes many forms with artists, writers, poets, an ecologists, a historian and a rapper.

[trans*mission]

Ancestress (Teila Watson)

Madeline Brewer

Daniel Kielly Davis

d harding

Sebastian Henry-Jones

Marilena Hewitt

Jenuarrie

Henry Reese

Ellen Roberts

Michael Smith

Teila Watson

Harrison Witsey

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Alrey Batol

Fer Boyd

Alisha Brown

Bridget Chappell

Ibn Djinn

Georgia Hayward

Therese Keogh & Jéan-Louise Olivier

Gordon Macindoe

Enoch Mailangi & Emily Grant

Sally Molloy & Lu Forsberg

Lana Nguyen

Kenzee Patterson

Renee Rossini

Madeleine Stack

Lucy Wylie & Othy Willis