Image: Madison Bycroft, video still from Waterlogue - Four on the Floor, 2024. Supported by Creative Australia, La Becque, Mécènes du sud
CURATED BY DR AMBER SMITH
PANEL DISCUSSION: WORLD-BUILDING
SAT 15 JUN 11.30AM - 12.15PM
FREE TO ATTEND, REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED
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Closed captioned and Auslan interpretation version available upon request.
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As part of Platform Arts' Worlding program, join us in Gallery One for a cross-sector panel discussion about World-building through the lenses of art and critical theory, architecture, game design, spatial design, play and spirituality.
Speakers include Dr. Peter Hill (professor of art and critical theory), Melinda Chapman (author/game-designer/playwright), Jess Hume (playground designer), Penny Jenkins (spiritual medium), and proud Gunditjmara Keerray Woorroong woman Tarryn Love, who is one of the exhibiting artists in Worlding.
ABOUT WORLDING
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.
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Jess Hume (they/them) is a queer non-binary person who currently lives on Bunurong Land and Yorta Yorta Country. They are passionate about creativity, visual arts and the environment around us. In their professional life, Jess is an Architectural Draftsperson with over 15 years experience, primarily in prefabricated playgrounds and outdoor gyms for public spaces and schools, specialising in design, setting out, detailing, and site and installation solutions. Currently, they are studying Sustainable Building Design at RMIT to further enhance their skills in sustainable design for our future.
Professor Peter Hill(PhD) is an artist, writer, and independent curator. He is an Honorary Enterprise Professor at the VCA, University of Melbourne. His expertise lies in studio practice, and in lecturing in art history and theory, and building links between both areas. He has delivered Superfiction Performance-lectures at some of the world’s leading art schools, universities, and museums. He has exhibited his Superfictions in the Sydney Biennale, at the Museum of Modern Art (Oxford), at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Auckland City Gallery, the Cite International des Arts in Paris, and with Hubert Winter Gallery in Vienna.
PJ (Penny Jenkins) is a Yin Yoga Teacher whose practice spans Trauma-informed Movement & Facilitation. PJ works within the Community Service sector, engaging diverse people in the community and supporting them on their road to recovery. Through their cross-sector experience, PJ has learned that yoga is not just a physical practice but a transformative tool for healing and self-discovery. PJ’s workshops aim to inspire others to become agents of positive change within their communities. PJ’s practice serves as a framework for personal growth, collective healing, and the cultivation of compassionate action.
Melinda Chapman began in the advertising industry before becoming a pre-production illustrator and games artist at Creative Edge (Scotland). In Australia, she spent several years as a World Builder at ATARI Melbourne House and I.R. Gurus (Melbourne). Melinda has worked on titles for PC, Playstation, and Xbox, including franchises Men In Black, Looney Tunes, and Transformers. Since moving to the G21 region as a freelance artist, Melinda has authored three books and three plays. Her debut comedy Just Far Enough is published with Australian Plays Transform. In 2019, she joined the Platform Arts team, working in marketing and development.
Tarryn Love is a proud Gunditjmara Keerray Woorroong woman, born and raised on Wadawurrung Country. She is a koorroyarr, teenyeen ngapang, tyeentyeeyt ngapangyarr and wanoong ngeerrang - granddaughter, youngest daughter, youngest sister and proud Aunty. Tarryn is an emerging artist, curator, and producer, whose practice exists in the space of creative cultural expression. She creates under the collective of Koorroyarr which means ‘granddaughter’ in her Mother Tongue, honouring her positionality as a Gunditjmara woman. Koorroyarr represents that the sustainability of cultural practice is in the sharing of knowledge and pays respect to her family and Ancestors, past and living. Tarryn Love’s work represents the distinctiveness of Gunditjmara ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing that is not one way but constantly happening and changing. Overall, she aims to explore her identity in the here and now while centering language and carrying on the work of remembering, reclamation, regeneration, and revitalisation.
