The art of free travel

Multimedia presentation of a 400-day research-performance on bicycles, documenting free food.

A presentation by Artist as Family collaborator Patrick Jones, encapsulating the collective’s movements, findings, food and shelter from Jaara Jaara country in Central Victoria to the Guugu Yimithirr community in East Cape York, Queensland.

Jones will draw on more than 60 blog posts published on the road, including images and videos that show some of the materials, arts, relationships and knowledges required to perform low-damaging travel in Australia. The presentation will demonstrate that collaboration is an essential part of free travel. Relationships create and nurture resilience, and gift economies become part of the collaborative experience. Chance plays a significant role in such movement, and ’embrace uncertainty’ becomes the collective’s mantra.

  • 'The art of free travel' presentation at the Assembly Symposium, Melbourne 2015.

  • 'The art of free travel' presentation at the Assembly Symposium, Melbourne 2015.

  • 'The art of free travel' presentation at the Assembly Symposium, Melbourne 2015.

  • Chance sleep shelter, central NSW

  • Cycling in Guugu Yimithirr country, East Cape York

  • Dinner, South coast NSW