Oct
19
to Nov 30
Fordtown 2024
A documentary project exploring the Ford Motor Company's closure and its impact on Geelong.
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Oct
19
to Nov 30
Assembled Lines
Rowlands’ work with found objects from Ford Motor Company (Geelong) allows its history to come into focus.
Oct
19
2:00 PM14:00
Ham Hop the Gold Mountain Wife
A performance lecture and exhibition presenting the history of Ham Hop, a ‘gold mountain wife.'
Sep
20
5:30 PM17:30
AFTER WALTER HOPPS Closing Party
The community is invited to celebrate the After Walter Hopps exhibition on its closing night.
Sep
12
6:00 PM18:00
Ask a curator
Ask in-person about curatorial practice, gallery protocols, exhibitions, installs, commissions and more.
Sep
11
5:30 PM17:30
Studio Crits
A space for local practitioners to discuss, analyse and reflect upon their creative practice and works in development.
Aug
29
1:00 PM13:00
Critical Tools for Arts Practice
Learn arts writing essentials, and find the right language to anchor your practice.
Aug
24
3:30 PM15:30
After Walter Hopps Gallery Install Workshop
Join artist and gallery technician Lucy Allinson for a talk and demonstration on how to install works to industry standards.
Aug
12
to Sep 20
AFTER WALTER HOPPS
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.
Jul
26
6:30 PM18:30
Screening Palestine Series: Resistance, Why? (1971)
A recently restored documentary by Christian Ghazi captures a crucial cross-section of the Palestinian resistance in Lebanon in 1970.
Jul
13
12:00 PM12:00
Dungeons & Dragons: Open Sessions
Enter the world of Dungeons & Dragons, with open game sessions in the Platform Arts Performance Space.
Jun
28
1:00 PM13:00
REFUGIUM SCREENING (2021)
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.
Jun
15
11:30 AM11:30
PANEL DISCUSSION: WORLD-BUILDING
Panel discussion: world-building through the lenses of art and critical theory, architecture, game design, spatial design, play and spirituality.
Jun
8
to Jul 19
WORLDING
Alternate realities, memory fields, truth-telling, and material-semiotic worlds are open to exploration in Worlding.
Jun
8
3:00 PM15:00
CURATOR TALK: WORLDING
Before the exhibition officially opens to the public, join us for a floor talk with Worlding curator Amber Smith.
Jun
8
to Jul 19
WORLDING PUBLICATION
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.
May
31
to Jun 1
May'd Art Festival
Visit the Public Platform stall at May’d, Creative Geelong's 2-day festival presented in partnership with Melbourne Art Book Fair.
May
24
to May 26
PUBLIC PLATFORM @ 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.
May
17
6:00 PM18:00
SPEAKERS' CORNER
In celebration of IDAHOBIT and to conclude the FAIRY program, join us to share stories about finding identity and community.
May
10
6:30 PM18:30
AFW + NFSA: NITRATE KISSES (1992)
At once sexy, erotic and confrontational, Barbara Hammer’s landmark documentary operates at the margins between truth and fiction, memory and history,
Apr
20
2:00 PM14:00
MASQUERADES OF RESEARCH: PART I & II (2020-2022) + Q&A
Irish artist and filmmaker Padraig Robinson explores the impact of the controversial research of pre-queer sociologist Laud Humphreys.
Apr
12
6:30 PM18:30
PALESTINE SCREENING SERIES: THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS (2023)
Through the voices and stories of 8 people, this documentary explains the mechanisms of control that the Israeli state deploys to subjugate Palestinians.
Apr
6
4:30 PM16:30
CELESTIAL
Step into a world of transcendence as Zoë Bastin’s Celestial reimagines angels as heralds of the queer extraordinary.
Apr
6
to May 17
FAIRY
An exhibition that envisages queerness as a slippery spirit that is hard to pin down. How do queerness and desire become visible?
Apr
6
to May 17
A FAGGOT IS A UNIT
For his first exhibition in Australia, Padraig Robinson (IRE) presents an installation drawn from 7+ years of research into queer archives.
Apr
6
to May 17
ONE
As part of the FAIRY program, Platform Arts is pleased to present select works by Djilang-based queer artist Tom Bourke.
Apr
6
3:00 PM15:00
ARTIST TALK: FAIRY
A public conversation between FAIRY artists and co-curators Spiros Panigirakis and Mel Deerson.
Mar
28
5:30 PM17:30
GPFF PROGRAM LAUNCH
Platform Arts is thrilled to partner again with Geelong Pride Film Festival to host the 2024 program launch.
Mar
14
6:30 PM18:30
PRACTICING CONNECTIONS IN MOVEMENT: INTRODUCTION TO KLEIN TECHNIQUE™
To improve movement and heal injuries, Klein Technique™ focuses on moving from our deepest structural and energetic tissue, the bone, and the connections at the level of the bones.
Feb
24
10:00 AM10:00
UPPER STONY CREEK RESERVOIR WALK
Join us for a guided walk to discover the story of the Upper Stony Creek Reservoir, which opened in 1873.