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Upcoming Calendar
0417
Searching for riverbeds
Sally Craven & Ena Grozdanić
Residency
03.05.21 - 31.05.21
Inspired by on-ground activism to save river systems, and the human and more-than-human stories embedded in landscapes, Sally and Ena will situate the local histories of the Sana River and Birrarung / Yarra River in a broader global context.
On a concrete wall, graffiti reads: “Fuck your walls, give us back our trees.”
[ research project ][ residency ][ riverways ][ visual art ]
0414
Order up, Mashriq
Majed Fayad
Residency
03.05.21 - 31.05.21
Majed Fayad’s residency will focus on new work called ‘Order up, Mashriq’ – A bar in the desert after social-distancing and climate change catastrophes. A wasteland of sound and images for the public to interact in. Majed Fayad is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist who has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian college of the Arts and a Bachelor of Communication Design at Monash University in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Fayad’s creative practice addresses the differences between Middle Eastern and Western cultures by focusing on the clash of ideologies and current popular culture. Fayad’s design expression and aesthetic elements produced through his design practice speaks to combining the ‘new’ and the ‘old’ through art/design theory by developing unconventional concepts.
Image courtesy the artist.
[ multidisciplinary ][ residency ][ site-specific ][ visual art ]
0418
Noisy Rubbish
Michelle Macklem
Residency
03.05.21 - 31.05.21
Noisy Rubbish seeks to turn our ears back towards the sounds we’ve deemed unwanted – to hear what we may discover in the process. Camilla Hannan, Marco Cher-Gibard, Michelle Macklem, Miyuki Jokiranta and Zoe Scoglio will undertake a sustained engagement to produce works that properly engage with the site – in the heart of Southbank’s arts precinct, and wedged between some of the city’s busiest and loudest roads.
Image courtesy Michelle Macklem.
[ development work ][ residency ][ site-specific ][ sound art ]
0436
Aîkugûabeté
João Marco Deloie
N/A
13.05.21 - 21.05.21
Testing Grounds x Yirramboi Festival present Aîkugûabeté, a photographic exhibition by João Marco Deloie. This project represents Brazil in a different way to the western lens of colonialist photos you often see. It educates viewers of the traditional knowledge of its environments (known as lendas)–its rivers, plants and cultural practises.