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Jiawen and Carmen will guide you through monthly movement workshops from February to July 2025.
RISING’s annual ritual of Communitas is officially kicking off again.
Explore the concept of Songlines, through yarning, play, and observing with Kiri Wicks.
What does it mean to be seen? How do we uncover what the image is trying to tell us? And how do we reclaim the image from the mediated world?
An exhibition of contemporary women's self-portraiture and how they use lens-based media to subvert the colonial, western, and patriarchal gaze.
Platform Arts’ theatre-in-residence, Overflow, brings their unique retelling of Shakespeare’s most famous work.
Make camera-less photographs through a lumen process, collaborating with time and the sun.
Jiawen Feng and Carmen Yih explore the physical manifestation of absence to examine how humans experience loss.
Refusal / Futurity self-portrait workshop, facilitated by Jody Haines.
Engage your senses in this unique honey-tasting and beeswax candle-making experience.
A groundbreaking installation and sound walk where art meets science on the shores of Geelong
Experience intuitive hand-building and ceramic techniques in a natural setting with Kim Drew.
Explore with Lucy Allinson noise pollution and how it affects our landscapes.
Image, sound, and time untether in a combined live foley and dance performance by Aviva Endean and Rebecca Jensen.
Drawing on principles of Chinese classical dance (influenced by Tai Chi) and incorporating visual art.
The Cloud Maker celebrates goddesses from each of the five female master musician’s cultures, evoking a time when music and language, art and life, were intertwined.
Sympoiesis celebrates “making with” through sensory experiences spanning visual arts, performance, conversations, and food.
A documentary project exploring the Ford Motor Company's closure and its impact on Geelong.
Rowlands’ work with found objects from Ford Motor Company (Geelong) allows its history to come into focus.
A performance lecture and exhibition presenting the history of Ham Hop, a ‘gold mountain wife.'
The community is invited to celebrate the After Walter Hopps exhibition on its closing night.
Ask in-person about curatorial practice, gallery protocols, exhibitions, installs, commissions and more.
A space for local practitioners to discuss, analyse and reflect upon their creative practice and works in development.
Learn arts writing essentials, and find the right language to anchor your practice.
Join artist and gallery technician Lucy Allinson for a talk and demonstration on how to install works to industry standards.
An open call to artists: After Walter Hopps returns in 2024. Platform Arts will hand over the control of their curated gallery program in an open-call exhibition.
A recently restored documentary by Christian Ghazi captures a crucial cross-section of the Palestinian resistance in Lebanon in 1970.
Enter the world of Dungeons & Dragons, with open game sessions in the Platform Arts Performance Space.
A short film exploring themes of climate justice, colonial disruption, apocalypse and intergenerational justice followed by a Q&A with Jen Rae and Claire G. Coleman.
Panel discussion: world-building through the lenses of art and critical theory, architecture, game design, spatial design, play and spirituality.
Alternate realities, memory fields, truth-telling, and material-semiotic worlds are open to exploration in Worlding.
Before the exhibition officially opens to the public, join us for a floor talk with Worlding curator Amber Smith.
Features commissioned and reprinted written works by Dr. Peter Hill, Tarryn Love, Dr. Simon O’Sullivan, Robert Schubert, and Dr. Mira Keratova, and a curatorial essay by our Curator, Dr. Amber Smith.
Visit the Public Platform stall at May’d, Creative Geelong's 2-day festival presented in partnership with Melbourne Art Book Fair.
Purchase publications from a range of publishers, artists and designers exhibiting at the NGV Great Hall - including our publishing arm, Public Platform.
In celebration of IDAHOBIT and to conclude the FAIRY program, join us to share stories about finding identity and community.
At once sexy, erotic and confrontational, Barbara Hammer’s landmark documentary operates at the margins between truth and fiction, memory and history,
Irish artist and filmmaker Padraig Robinson explores the impact of the controversial research of pre-queer sociologist Laud Humphreys.