Opening of WORLDING on Saturday, 8 June 2024 - show invite
PlatfromArts, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Alternate realities, memory fields, truth-telling, and material-semiotic worlds are open to exploration in our upcoming thematic program, WORLDING.
You are warmly invited to join us for the opening event on Saturday, 8 June from 3:00 pm, with official proceedings from 4.00 pm.
WORLDING launches with an exhibition featuring twelve national and international contemporary artists whose works speak to a mobile understanding of how artists partake in the designing, building, and organising of a personal world through their practice.
Artists include: Brook Andrew, Madison Bycroft, Katthy Cavaliere, Daniel Crooks, Julie Davies, Stano Filko, Patrick Pound, Alex Rizkalla, Si Yi Shen, Kieren Seymour, Batia Suter, and Tarryn Love
Under the curation of Platform Arts’ Dr Amber Smith, WORLDING reflects how people reimagine their immediate world and what they are signalling to themselves and others, ranging from acts of curating the past through memorabilia to crafting speculative futures. The mediums span video and digital media as well as object-based and archival practices, foregrounding First Nations and Diasporic perspectives, which together examine how everyday objects and technologies infiltrate artistic practice.
WORLDING begins with a curator floor talk at 3.00pm followed by the opening event at 4.00 pm on Saturday, June 8th. There will be free public events over the six-week program, including a film program in partnership with Artist Film Workshop, public programming with The Centre For Reworlding, panel discussions and open sessions of the game Dungeons & Dragons in Gallery One. Details for our public events will be published on our website shortly.
We look forward to seeing you there.
The Platform Team
SAT 08 JUN 3.00PM - FRI 19 JUL 5.00PM
CURATOR TALK SAT 08 JUN, 3.00PM
OPENING EVENT SAT 08 JUN, 4.00-6.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
Brook Andrew, Madison Bycroft, Katthy Cavaliere, Daniel Crooks, Julie Davies, Stano Filko, Patrick Pound, Alex Rizkalla, Si Yi Shen, Kieren Seymour, Batia Suter, and Tarryn Love
WORLDING presents the works of twelve national and international contemporary artists that speak to a mobile understanding of how artists partake in the designing, building, and organising of a personal world through their practice.
Under the curation of Platform Arts’ Dr Amber Smith, the ‘worlding’ practices proposed in this exhibition reflect how artists un/build worlds and re/imagine the world as-it-is, with consideration to alternate realities, memory fields, truth-telling, and material-semiotic worlds. The mediums span video and digital media as well as object-based and archival practices, foregrounding First Nations and Diasporic perspectives, which together examine how everyday objects and technologies infiltrate artistic practice by co-opting and subverting these materialities.
These central themes culminated from Amber’s 2022 PhD: ‘Collecting, Display, and World-Building in Contemporary Art Practice: Putting the Wunderkammer back to work’. This research saw Amber investigate and unravel the more unconscious motivations behind object-based, accumulative art practices. Through Worlding, Amber invites viewers to contemplate how one exists among, between, and surrounded by material networks of things.
Worlding runs as a six-week program that begins with a curator floor talk at 3.00pm, followed by an opening event at 4.00 pm on Saturday, June 8th. There will be free public events in partnership with The Centre For Reworlding, including a screening of Refugium followed by a Q+A session on Friday, June 28th; a cross-sector panel talk drawing on world-building expertise from an architect, author, game designer, and an exhibiting artist on Saturday, June 15th; and a film screening of Harry Hooton (1971) through Australian Film Workshop on Friday, June 21st. Platform Arts will also host open sessions of the game Dungeons & Dragons in Gallery One throughout the exhibition phase.
“By confronting our own attempts to world-build, we gain insight into the purpose of worlding being about identity and creating an environment that signals back to us—sometimes unconsciously—our identity and essentials like security and self-actualisation. We like to know that our immediate world meets our needs and desires.”
— Curator Amber Smith
With thanks to the Estates of Katthy Cavaliere, Stano Filko, and Alex Rizkalla, through the AGNSW Artist Archives.
For enquiries, please contact curator@platformarts.org.au
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Amber Smith is an artist, curator, producer and writer working within the sphere of objects, thing theory and collection practices. They are interested in how these operate as a counter-practice to - or a complimentary practice of - digital and new media streams.
Amber Smith holds a PhD from Deakin University in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. They also hold a Bachelor of Design Arts (Visual Arts) from the Australian Academy of Design and a First-Class Honours Degree in Creative Arts at Deakin University. Amber is the Curator at Platform Arts and an academic at Lasalle College International, Melbourne (LCIM) and Deakin University.
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