Debris Facility Pty Ltd- ToxEcology: 2026

for ‘Dear Agnes 2026’

Dear Agnes is a contemporary public art program returning to Truganina Explosives Reserve in 2026, presented in partnership with Deakin University, RMIT University and Greater Western Water. Artists or collectives are commissioned to create works responding to Agnes Denes’ A Forest for Australia (1998) and the local coastal landscapes of Hobsons Bay.

13 to 29 March
Fridays – 10am to 3pm
Saturdays – 11am to 5pm
Sundays – 11am to 3pm

Works:

-ToxEcology:Audio Tour in collaboration with Joel Stern.
Stereo Audio. 20m:26s. 

Edited on Reaper, Reduct and Machine Listening’s Word Processor Instrument.
Featuring samples of interviews with Sandra Wilson (Secretary, Truganina Explosive Reserve Preservation Society), Joseph Philips (Operator in Charge, Biodiversity and Stormwater, Greater Western Water Altona Treatment Plant), Indi Jennings (Artist and Basalt Buddies member), Geoff Robinson (Artist, Tributaries Projects member) and Sol Skeletor (Local historian, Cave Clan member). 

ToxEcology:Banner (P/re:Serve -PreSence)
12x 6 metre blue tarpaulin, Nylon ratchet straps, Lilac low density poly pipe 25mm, poly connectors.

ToxEcology: Re:fractions
Printed transparency in light box. (118 x 86 x 12cm)
Featuring images from Truganina Explosive Reserve, T.E.R.P.S archive, ‘A forest for Australia’ by Agnes Denes, Greater Western Water Altona Treatment Plant, ‘Eycalytus Standard’by George Egerton-Warbarton. Designed on Inkscape. Lilac low Density Poly Pipe 25mm, poly connectors.

ToxEcology:Map (Concrete - Anarchaeology)
A2 folded to DL Map. double sided colour print on 100gsm paper. Designed on Inkscape. Edition of 500.
Free or donations accepted to “Basalt Buddies”

Contexture

Debris Facility work ‘ToxEcology’ invests (+infests) in the contamination and containment processes on site and beyond to reflect on control, ‘development’ and multiple ecologies.The overlapping of constructed ecologies, waste practices and industry provides material from which to digest our relationships to labour, ego, belonging and value systems. 

ToxEcology:Acoustic Deconomy deploys concrete poetry and experimental audio guides which overlay fragmented language on top of expanded turntable practice and electronics. Including exploded samples of interviews with people who have worked and are committed to these sites and processes. 

ToxEcology: P/re:Serve, PreSence, AdVerse. covers a section of fence in used tarpaulin, in an act of speculative re/development, repair and gift wrapping/ packaging. Lilac pipes are colour-coded for recycled water, and looped to create infinite circuits, entropic feedback loops. 

ToxEcology: Re:fractions is a glowing speculative aeffective collage map which refracts archives and images. Capsules and w/holes are arranged into an accumulated platter of pHARMakons.

ToxEcology:Map [Concrete - Anarchaeology] a parasitic map/brochure deploys concrete poetry to highlight the at-tensions on these sites.