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Images, clockwise from left: 1) James Geurts, Flood Gauge, from Floodplain Project, National Gallery of Victoria 2018, reconfigured for Platform Arts, 2024. 2) Angela Tiatia / New Zealand/Samoa/Australia / Holding On, 2015 / courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney / Singapore, © Angela Tiatia. (3-4) Murray River Punch performance by Bonita Ely, 1980, documentation by Noelene Lucas. (5) Stills from Wrack Entanglements, Ocean LAB, parabolic sound and video work, 2024, photos Leiko Lopez. (6) A Long Line (Currents) publication, edited by Sarah Jones for Public Platform, 2024. (7) Lichen Kelp and Dylan Martorell (Seaweed Appreciation Society International), Currents opening event, photo Leiko Lopez


Currents

10 FEB—15 MAR ‘24 Angela Tiatia, Bonita Ely, Elena Betros Lopez, Georgia Nowak, James Geurts, Jazz Money, Kelping (Lichen Kelp and Dylan Martorell), Ocean LAB (Fiona Hillary, Prue Francis, and Vicki Hallett), and Baai film artists (Atil Angeth, Kotnyin Thon, Martha Kudum and Nyang Mayen). 

Currents is an exhibition that examines our relationship to water. Featuring the works of 15 contemporary artists, it looks at water as protagonist, collaborator, and material, inviting viewers to reflect on the dynamic forces that shape our interactions with this essential element.

  1. Currents
  2. Upper Stony Creek Reservoir walk
  3. Australian Posthuman Summer Laboratory collab
  4. Water Cycle Meditation
  5. A Long Line (Currents publication)



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Platform Arts
On Wadawurrung Country
60 Little Malop St 
Djilang/Geelong VIC 3220
P: (03) 5224 2815 
M: 0467 094 597
E: hello@platformarts.org.au


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Office hours: Tuesday to Friday / 9.30AM—4.30PM
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday / 10.00AM—4.00PM

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Platform Arts’ accessibility includes a ramp to our Gheringhap St entrance, wheelchair-accessible bathrooms, baby-change facilities, and elevator. Accessible carparks are located on the Little Malop St side of our building. If you have specific accessibility needs, please contact us.
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Platform Arts, based on Wadawurrung Country in Djilang/Geelong, focuses on the development of artistic practice and ideas, leading to the presentation of these ideas as contemporary arts experiences. We curate a multi-artform program of exhibitions, performances, publications and events that respond to themes and provocations we believe are urgent for our times. Learn more

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