RECIPROCITY:
​A Field Guide to Creative Practice Research in Australia 

This page offers a preview into the creative projects, places, and communities that form the foundation of RECIPROCITY: A Field Guide to Creative Practice Research in Australia. The is a private page, developed to act as support material for our submission to publish with Onnomatopee in 2026. The project documentation gathered here provide an embodied introduction to the research processes and relationships that the book will explore. Each example demonstrates the principles of care, collaboration, and reciprocity that anchor the collection. We share this support material as invitations into process to have a sense of the places and voices that will feature in the collection. 

Kabi Kabi Country  takes in the eastern part of the coastal ranges, including the volcanic Glasshouse Mountains and the great Mary River valley that runs from the Conondale Ranges to the sea near Maryborough. This preview features Kabi Kabi Traditional Custodian, artist and Elder, Aunty Helena Gulash, who introduces Kabi Kabi Country.

ANAT SPECTRA 2025 :: Reciprocity brought together Australian artists working at the intersections of art, science, and technology to explore the ethics and possibilities of reciprocal exchange. The program traced reciprocity across planetary, cultural, ecological, and technological systems, asking how reciprocity conceptually, materially, and as a lived experience might guide us. Many of the artists featured at this event are contributors to the book and this short video provides a preview of the event on Kabi Kabi Country

Tallo-Billa, meaning ‘Humpback Whale’ in Kabi Kabi language, is the latest iteration of the Beeyali project. Conceived by Kabi Kabi artist Lyndon Davis, the project has been developed in collaboration with sound artist Leah Barclay and photographer Tricia King and brings together Indigenous knowledge, emerging science, creative practice, and innovative technology to visualise the calls of wildlife on Kabi Kabi Country using cymatics. Beeyali is a call to action, exploring creative practice to raise awareness for the numerous vulnerable species in Queensland. This video features a preview of Tallo Billa which will be included in the RECIPROCITY collection as text, photographs and audio-visuals immersions into the marine ecosystems of Kabi Kabi Country.

Header Image: Listening to the Beeyali Canoe Tree (Tricia King)