“Platform LAB is our flagship artist development program that champions research, collaboration and experimentation. ”
Platform LAB provides a critically rigorous, responsive framework for artists to challenge and refine creative practice toward the creation of ambitious new works. This tailored residency program supports participating artists to experiment with new methodologies, undertake research, grow their professional practice and contribute to contemporary dialogues.
Fundamental to Platform LAB is an emphasis on artist-led public pedagogy, in the form of lectures, workshops, open studio and field trips, which inform outcomes across performance, exhibition and publication. LAB also provides artists with time, money, space, tailored mentorship, group intensives and presentation opportunities, as well as in-house technical, producing, and marketing support.
In 2023, the LAB program has expanded to include a dedicated First Nations stream through our YOOKAPA program, responding to the critical need for more accessible and culturally safe spaces in the community to ensure First Nations futurity in the arts.
The success of this program relies in part on the ethos of seeding and growing further outcomes beyond the LAB, embedding artists in our regional and national arts ecologies. Alumni have gone on to become artistic associates, facilitators, consultants, and arts workers in regional and statewide organisations and programs. Program facilitators work to tailor creative developments to support artists’ longer-term goals, giving time and resources to develop and pitch ambitious works to major festivals, presenters, and potential funders.
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Platform LAB is made possible with the support of the Australian Government through the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund.