STUDIO TACTICS FOR THE END OF CAPITALISM

KILNCORE
•Fast • Hot • Experimental •

Welcome to KILNCORE — an afternoon workshop where you’ll learn how to build your own raku kiln using readily available materials, fire your own pieces, and discover what’s possible when you’re not bound by commercial kiln rules. Quick, cheap, DIY — cook your work, your way.

You’ll walk away with:
• The know-how to build and fire your own raku kiln — solo, with friends, or collectively with the studio
• No-nonsense written instructions covering everything we worked on
• Techniques to do what you can’t do in commercial kilns — fast, direct, and experimental
• Access to IN | ARI’s KILNCORE network, where you can hire the kiln built on the day for future firings

Perfect for DIY romantics, impatient potters, and anyone curious to play with heat, transformation, and immediacy.

It’s the daddy of all workshops.
Facilitated by Camille Therese

BIOLAB
A hands-on biomaterial workshop

BioLab invites you to engage your senses and work in dialogue with nature’s materials. Through a process of material exploration, we’ll experiment with algae and other natural ingredients to create bio-plastics and bio-yarn. You’ll discover new ways of working with texture and form in sustainable design. This sensory-driven process encourages creativity, connection, and curiosity and roots us in the experience of working directly with alive materials.

This workshop offers a playful and tactile introduction to conscious design practices. Participants will take home their own bio-yarn and bio-plastic, along with a recipe card and plenty of information on how to continue their biomaterial journey.

Facilitated by Spiraro | Indy Heath

HAPAZOME

Hapazome, a traditional Japanese method of leaf dyeing, invites us to explore colour through the natural pigments found in plants. Using simple tools and gathered materials, we’ll press leaves and flowers into fabric to create botanical prints.

As we forage, arrange, and press our chosen plants, this sensory process invites us to connect more deeply with the natural world, encouraging us to take time to notice the textures, shapes, and colours that often go unseen.

This workshop offers a playful and mindful introduction to conscious textile practices. Participants will take home their own naturally dyed fabric, along with a renewed sense of curiosity and wonder for the patterns and pigments found in everyday plants.

Facilitated by Spiraro | Indy Heath a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist working across textiles, sculpture, biomaterials, and lighting. Their work explores the material life of textiles, both living and lived, through a heightened sensory experience. Heath’s approach to making is rooted in sensory engagement, creating works that invite touch, sight, smell, and sound as ways to connect. They work with natural pigments derived from rust and plant matter, biomaterials such as seaweed and bacterial leather, metal, found objects, and discarded textiles, interweaving these elements into sculptural pieces that question how future materials might coexist with those of the past. Blurring the line between organic and human-made, their work sits in the tension between what is grown and what is discarded.

WRITE CLUB
For artists and creatives navigating precarity, constraint, and the practical realities of making work when the budget doesn’t. Part studio laboratory, part writing room, part collective thinking exercise, the workshop offers low-cost, high-ingenuity tactics for sustaining practice in unstable conditions.

Working through embodied prompts, collective writing experiments, and language-based studio scores, participants will explore noticing as a method, misunderstanding as a resource, and voice as material. Writing is approached not as a polished outcome but as residue, sound-mark, theft, sensation, and play—something tasted, spoken, interrupted, and shared. Confusion is welcomed as its own form of clarity, and generosity replaces authorship.

Led by Ruby Donohoe—an interdisciplinary artist whose practice uses choreography and instability as modes of critical inquiry—the workshop draws on interruption, hesitation, and disorientation as generative tools. Attention is given to how words emerge from the body, how language performs in space, and how estrangement can open new conceptual terrain.

This workshop is open to writers and non-writers alike—including artists and creatives with studio practices that involve words, as well as those looking to excavate conceptual ground through language play, collective experimentation, and low-pressure making. No prior writing experience is required, only a willingness to work together, stay curious, and let things remain unresolved.