00-01 WATER is the first book of the PLATYPUS Essentials series. Each book will explore the 5 essentials- Water, Energy, Food, Shelter and Waste - through an unconventional research project (Queer Field Guide) and a curated book of emerging and prominent artists and writers .  [thirsty] is the first Queer Field Guide located in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), a colonial settlement in the central desert that also happens to be the queer capital of Australia... It’s counterpart  [swallow] is a collection of talented  artists and writers from across the continent expressing water as more-than-a-resource.

SALTY, is about exploring the sticky nuances of the mangroves and mudflats and to celebrate the most beautiful and mundane cultural icons in my life- my family. My mum, a cyclonic, Italian work-aholic and in contrast my father a calm but distant tug- boat of kindness. It will share through poetry, art works and anecdotes stories of climate change and rituals/relationships around salt-water and food and navigating queerness in a quintessential Australian/Italian nuclear family PLUS an Italian secret recipe book by my mother. The stories, poetry and imagery are honest and a little salty but made with an enormous amount of love and appreciation for my parents and the beautiful big tides I grew up on.

tide times is a deck of intertidal divination cards created in collaboration with the Australasian Mangrove and Saltmarsh Network. Each card represents an organism or process related to tidal wetland habitats in Australasia (Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean), along with associated stories about survival, diversity, adaptation, and connections within these dynamic marine shoreline habitats.

Conversations on Shadow Architecture (CoSA) proposes a multidisciplinary enquiry into the cultural, social and political potential of space and architecture through the theoretical lens and modes of Critical Spatial Practice. Curated by Ineke Dane, CoSA included commissioned and selected works by artists, architects, writers and composers from Albania, Aotearoa NZ, Australia, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Peru, and USA: Tarik Ahlip, Heba Y. Amin,  Richard Bell, Lauren Brincat, Five Mile Radius, Gill Gatfield, D Harding, Fionnuala Heidenreich, HWKN Studio, Simon James Phillips, Valentina Karga, Nicolas Kisic Aguirre and Anri Sala.

Window pools together the poetry, journal excerpts and artworks. Creating a dialogue between written and painted work in an attempt to extend the research begun during Miri Badger’s 2022 Finland residency.