Image: Madison Bycroft, video still from Waterlogue - Four on the Floor, 2024. Supported by Creative Australia, La Becque, Mécènes du sud
GALLERY | CURATED BY AMBER SMITH
WORLDING
SAT 08 JUN 3.00PM - FRI 19 JUL 5.00PM
CURATOR TALK SAT 08 JUN, 3.00PM
OPENING EVENT SAT 08 JUN, 4.00-6.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday 10.00am - 3.00pm
Sunday closed
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
Brook Andrew, Madison Bycroft, Katthy Cavaliere, Daniel Crooks, Julie Davies, Stano Filko, Patrick Pound, Alex Rizkalla, Si Yi Shen, Kieren Seymour, Batia Suter, and Tarryn Love
WORLDING presents the works of twelve national and international contemporary artists that speak to a mobile understanding of how artists partake in the designing, building, and organising of a personal world through their practice.
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.
Worlding runs as a six-week program that begins with a curator floor talk at 3.00pm, followed by an opening event at 4.00 pm on Saturday, June 8th. There will be free public events in partnership with The Centre For Reworlding, including a screening of Refugium followed by a Q+A session on Friday, June 28th; a cross-sector panel talk drawing on world-building expertise from an architect, author, game designer, and an exhibiting artist on Saturday, June 15th. Platform Arts will also host open sessions of the game Dungeons & Dragons in Gallery One throughout the exhibition phase.
“By confronting our own attempts to world-build, we gain insight into the purpose of worlding being about identity and creating an environment that signals back to us—sometimes unconsciously—our identity and essentials like security and self-actualisation. We like to know that our immediate world meets our needs and desires.”
— Curator Amber Smith
With thanks to the Estates of Katthy Cavaliere, Stano Filko, and Alex Rizkalla, through the AGNSW Artist Archives.
This project has been supported by a City of Greater Geelong Community Grant.
For enquiries, please contact curator@platformarts.org.au.
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Amber Smith is an artist, curator, producer and writer working within the sphere of objects, thing theory and collection practices. They are interested in how these operate as a counter-practice to - or a complimentary practice of - digital and new media streams.
Amber Smith holds a PhD from Deakin University in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. They also hold a Bachelor of Design Arts (Visual Arts) from the Australian Academy of Design and a First-Class Honours Degree in Creative Arts at Deakin University. Amber is the Curator at Platform Arts and an academic at Lasalle College International, Melbourne (LCIM) and Deakin University.
