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(2016-09-24)Curatorial OutputLiving Traces, an exhibition of handmade artists’ books and limited edition prints is the fruit of a year-long collaboration between artists’ book producers Gwen Harrison and Sue Anderson and 12 Parragirl artists, curated by Dr Lily Hibberd. Based at the former Parramatta Girls Home, in this innovative project the women retrieve remaining traces of their time as teenage residents of the Home, more than 50 years ago and translate these through printmedia experimentation and new performance works. Over 16 workshops the women have produced unique collagraph prints that embody the marks the Home has left on them, both physically and mentally, and transformed these into a series of collective artist books and limited edition prints. Each print incorporates traces of scratchings left by young girls on surfaces in the institution and excerpts from state welfare records kept on them, files that until recently were largely inaccessible to former residents. Today, graffiti at Parramatta Girls Home is only evident to former residents. Words or acronyms written in coded language, like ILWA/ I Love, Worship and Adore, were covertly scored while in solitary confinement as an act of solidarity and resistance to the cruelty they suffered at the hands of their keepers. Living Traces captures otherwise unrecorded memories of the institution, buried under trauma and shame, before they are lost forever.
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(2016-01-29)Curatorial OutputExhibition of work by international new-media artists.
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(2016-09-28)Curatorial OutputMAD.LAB focuses on the role of design in cities as it relates to bigger issues including sustainability, innovation and the environment. A collaboration involving UNSW Art & Design, Priestman Architects, CQubed and Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, MAD.LAB approaches urbanism through the practice of mapping (e.g. experimentation, observation, narration and the recording of events) to create stories about the urban environment with a view to shaping this research into cohesive and compelling design strategies that promote social cohesion and positive place-making. At Beijing Design Week in 2016, MAD.LAB will facilitate critical dialogues between invited experts and creatives about our shared urban future. MAD.LAB's aim is to strengthen and consolidate Australia-China-global design dialogues through a workshop, forum and pop-up exhibition of innovative design. The project demonstrates how it connects students, academics and partners from design, digital-media and architecture through extensive practical people-to-people collaborations. MAD.LAB promotes Australian design education as international, collaborative, contemporary, diverse, and a source of excellence by showcasing sustainability, co-design, adaptive reuse, place-making, media facades and metadesign as a way of creating a shared vision for tackling ‘wicked problems’ in fair and equitable ways.
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(2016-04-30)Curatorial OutputEmergent ecologies are being fastened into place with new rivets and cyborg articulations. Amidst collapsing systems, unruly assemblages are flourishing and proliferating in unexpected places. Alongside work by established international ecoartists, bioartists, sculptors, and performers we will exhibit work by “wild artists” – students and others who do not have recognizable art credentials. We are pushing Joseph Beuys’ famous decree – “You are all artists!” – beyond human realms to include microbes, insects, and plants. Rather than be a static exhibit, that will stay the same from the opening and closing dates, our project will involve playing with the “hap” of what happens. Happiness, in the Old English sense of the word, means having “good hap” or fortune. We will be conducting experiments with happiness and glass, breaking down boundaries (and constructing new ones) to see what ecological communities might emerge. Featuring art by Maria Whiteman, Kathy High, Anna Dumitriu, Alex May, Kathy High, Adam Zaretsky, The Natural History Museum (Beka Economopoulos & Jason Jones), Rogan Brown, Ellie Irons, Anne Percoco, Tarsh Bates, Cary Peppermint, Leila Nadir, Krista Dragomer, Terreform ONE, Juan Olivares, Cheto Castellano, Anja Kanngieser, Polly Stanton, Andi Sutton, Jane Marsching, Katherine Behar, Laura McLauchlan, Susan Hoenig, Praba Pilar, Anuj Vaidya, Krisanne Baker, Mary Martin, Sophia Chao, Christy Rupp, J. D. Doria, Angela Petsis, Henry Horn, Deanna Pindell, Steve Barrett, Vaughn Bell, Sharon Kallis, Lenore Malen, Peter Bauer, Peter Richards, Michael Klingler, Jeff Hoelle, Eben Kirksey, Lissette Olivares, Grace Glovier, Cody Kohn, Kayli Marshall, Greg Umali, Alexandra Palocz, and Karin Bolender.