CD brings you the latest in arts and entertainment news from around the Canberra region. Highlights this week include breakthroughs in small blocks and how metabolism meets art.
Questacon builds innovation
Visitors to Canberra’s home of science are invited to undertake a journey of discovery in Questacon’s latest offering, a world-first interactive Lego experience. CURIOSITY: Building Breakthroughs in LEGO® Bricks is on display until 11 May 2025.
Leaving the textbook behind, attendees learn about the wonders of STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – through Lego creations and interactive displays. These have been crafted by Ryan ‘Brickman’ McNaught and his team of Lego experts, who have captured some of STEM’s most historic achievements using more than 1 million Lego bricks.
Highlights of the technological advancements, engineering feats and mathematical wonders that have been recreated include a life-sized Mars Rover Perseverance, a scaled solar system and the Periodic Table of Elements. An inclusive experience, Braille bricks have been included throughout the exhibition thanks to the initiative of Vision Australia.
CURIOSITY: Building Breakthroughs in LEGO® Bricks is on at Questacon until 11 May 2025; questacon.edu.au
Fecal attraction and other culinary delights
Food and art go hand in hand, but what if we switch the focus from food before it has been ingested to the digestion process? Would we still love the art? ANU Associate Professor Lindsay Kelley will launch her new book After Eating: Metabolising the Arts at the ANU School of Art & Design on Wednesday 5 June.
In her second published book, Ms Kelly explores what she believes are key relationships between digestion and metabolism and cultural, creative and policitcal processes. Indulging in the emerging field of metabolic arts, the author discusses how the experience of eating changes when it is technologies being digested.
The launch shares a recipe from the book – the Fecal Attractaction cocktail. The performative serving also offers non-alcohol options. A number of signed editions will also be available on the night. The launch is a free, ticketed event.
Explore new arts in the After Eating: Metabolising the Arts book launch at ANU on Wednesday 5 June 4pm; humanitix.com
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