Feasibility Study: Civic Imaginaries
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Accessible bathroom All gender bathroom Assistance animals welcome Wheelchair accessiblePlatform Arts launches ‘Feasibility Study: Civic Imaginaries’, a publication that documents a series of public artworks that could have taken place in Geelong/Djilang.
‘Feasibility Study: Civic Imaginaries’ is a modest, speculative, humorous and slightly provocative examination of the possibilities for public art in the city. The publication is a working document, a proposal, an application, a creative call-to-arms, and an ambitious civic-vision statement. To celebrate the launch, publication contributors will come together at Platform Arts for a discussion over a shared meal.
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Platform Arts, based on Wadawurrung Country in Djilang/Geelong, works with artists and creative practitioners across all disciplines to develop and sustain rigorous and critical artistic practice, and to test and present new experimental and contemporary works to regional and national audiences.
Bec Stevens is an artist preoccupied with plants, people and places. She trained in Fine Arts, Environmental Design and Horticulture. She uses emergent strategies to weave understandings of the social, and geographical attributes of the places we inhabit and embody. Bec lives and works in nipaluna, lutruwita.
Grant Divall is a non indigenous architect who lives and works on Wadawurrung Country, in Djilang (Geelong). He is an established and experienced architect and studio leader. The areas that frame his activity are social and public space, affordable housing, self-build housing, suburban transformation, spatial practices, walking, and Indigenous focuses.
Iván Martínez is an artist and book designer based in Mexico City. His work focuses on the development of fictitious narratives and speculative publications exploring the aesthetics of rumour and its mechanisms of propagation and modification. He is the author and designer of the publications, Megaphone News, The Sunken School, and Unusual Persecutions.
In his special interests: biology, power and social structure and the self, Jan Adriaans finds his topics. By drawing a parallel with the animal, the set of constraints we are subjected to become more apparent. His work consists of film, photography, sound and writings.
Laurie Oxenford is an artist, curator and public art producer. Her interdisciplinary spatial practice investigates the construction and potential of urban spaces and ecologies. By acknowledging the temporality of all things Laurie’s work is inherently site-responsive and thrives on human and non-human exchange. Laurie currently practices in the Yugambeh language region.
Lynda Roberts is an interdisciplinary practitioner exploring the social dynamics of public space. Drawing on a background in architecture, public art and community radio, Lynda often makes projects in situ, co-creating experiences that playfully explore the world and the spaces between us. Lynda lives and works on the unceded traditional lands of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung peoples.
The Rogue Academy is an art education and research collective. Using social and participatory art as examples of how to encourage empathy, innovation, autonomy, resilience, and inclusion, The Rogue Academy (Fiona Lee and Amanda Shone) develop a range of research platforms and interdisciplinary projects that favour transformative experiences. They live and practice on the unceded lands of the Wadawurrung and Woi-wurrung Peoples.
Yoeri Guépin is a visual artist, researcher and gardener working with communities, ecosystems and film. His experience of being brought up at a biodynamic farm, together with his interest in cultural histories and ecosystems, have resulted in an array of ecological projects that often find their form in gardens that act as vessel and entrance to marginal (hi)stories and nonwestern epistemologies.
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Accessible bathroom All gender bathroom Assistance animals welcome Wheelchair accessiblePlatform Arts launches ‘Feasibility Study: Civic Imaginaries’, a publication that documents a series of public artworks that could have taken place in Geelong/Djilang.
‘Feasibility Study: Civic Imaginaries’ is a modest, speculative, humorous and slightly provocative examination of the possibilities for public art in the city. The publication is a working document, a proposal, an application, a creative call-to-arms, and an ambitious civic-vision statement. To celebrate the launch, publication contributors will come together at Platform Arts for a discussion over a shared meal.
Participants
Platform Arts, based on Wadawurrung Country in Djilang/Geelong, works with artists and creative practitioners across all disciplines to develop and sustain rigorous and critical artistic practice, and to test and present new experimental and contemporary works to regional and national audiences.
Bec Stevens is an artist preoccupied with plants, people and places. She trained in Fine Arts, Environmental Design and Horticulture. She uses emergent strategies to weave understandings of the social, and geographical attributes of the places we inhabit and embody. Bec lives and works in nipaluna, lutruwita.
Grant Divall is a non indigenous architect who lives and works on Wadawurrung Country, in Djilang (Geelong). He is an established and experienced architect and studio leader. The areas that frame his activity are social and public space, affordable housing, self-build housing, suburban transformation, spatial practices, walking, and Indigenous focuses.
Iván Martínez is an artist and book designer based in Mexico City. His work focuses on the development of fictitious narratives and speculative publications exploring the aesthetics of rumour and its mechanisms of propagation and modification. He is the author and designer of the publications, Megaphone News, The Sunken School, and Unusual Persecutions.
In his special interests: biology, power and social structure and the self, Jan Adriaans finds his topics. By drawing a parallel with the animal, the set of constraints we are subjected to become more apparent. His work consists of film, photography, sound and writings.
Laurie Oxenford is an artist, curator and public art producer. Her interdisciplinary spatial practice investigates the construction and potential of urban spaces and ecologies. By acknowledging the temporality of all things Laurie’s work is inherently site-responsive and thrives on human and non-human exchange. Laurie currently practices in the Yugambeh language region.
Lynda Roberts is an interdisciplinary practitioner exploring the social dynamics of public space. Drawing on a background in architecture, public art and community radio, Lynda often makes projects in situ, co-creating experiences that playfully explore the world and the spaces between us. Lynda lives and works on the unceded traditional lands of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung peoples.
The Rogue Academy is an art education and research collective. Using social and participatory art as examples of how to encourage empathy, innovation, autonomy, resilience, and inclusion, The Rogue Academy (Fiona Lee and Amanda Shone) develop a range of research platforms and interdisciplinary projects that favour transformative experiences. They live and practice on the unceded lands of the Wadawurrung and Woi-wurrung Peoples.
Yoeri Guépin is a visual artist, researcher and gardener working with communities, ecosystems and film. His experience of being brought up at a biodynamic farm, together with his interest in cultural histories and ecosystems, have resulted in an array of ecological projects that often find their form in gardens that act as vessel and entrance to marginal (hi)stories and nonwestern epistemologies.
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