WHAT’S ON
What does it mean to be seen? How do we uncover what the image is trying to tell us? And how do we reclaim the image from the mediated world?
An exhibition of contemporary women's self-portraiture and how they use lens-based media to subvert the colonial, western, and patriarchal gaze.
Jiawen Feng and Carmen Yih explore the physical manifestation of absence to examine how humans experience loss.
Refusal / Futurity self-portrait workshop, facilitated by Jody Haines.
ZOJ performs at the launch of their second album ‘Give Water to Birds’
Come and join in the planning and design of suburban walking trails of Norlane.
What does it mean to be seen? How do we uncover what the image is trying to tell us? And how do we reclaim the image from the mediated world?
For over 5 years Georgia Banks has delved into the world of reality tv, provoking viewers engage with how this medium influences cultural attitudes. Villain Edit brings her works into a solo exhibition spotlighting much is given and asks what do we get?
Join Geelong performance artist and textile designer Lazarus Gordon in an artist-led costume construction and character-building workshop.
Join artist Jessica Tanto as they lead a workshop that explores the body, the city, and the narratives they can tell and untell about our actions in place.
A workshop for anyone curious about challenging learned social conditioning with an interest in how we perform permission, agency, and the creative possibilities of the body.
The end is coming. Hold my hand. Lets get anti-social IRL and connect like it’s before the internet.
This immersive performance is a dinner event where all attendees are invited into the farce: what would it be like if funerals were treated with the same paparazzi frenzy as other rites of passage?
RECENT PROGRAMS
Be Tru 2 Uluru and Platform Arts invite you to a special screening of Our Warrior: The story of Robbie Thorpe.
The film screening of ‘Beekeeping in the End Times’ and Q&A with film makers.
Jiawen and Carmen will guide you through monthly movement workshops from February to July 2025.
Discover what the wrack zone is and why it matters during an immersive field trip blending science, art, and sensory exploration.
Make camera-less photographs through a lumen process, collaborating with time and the sun.
Donate to Platform Arts before EOFY and you could win a 12 month pass to all Platform programmed events.
Platform Arts’ theatre-in-residence, Overflow, brings their unique retelling of Shakespeare’s most famous work.
Walk, share food and explore how projects can ‘come to us’ and be created through observation, deep listening and responsive practice.
Explore the concept of Songlines, through yarning, play, and observing with Kiri Wicks.
RISING’s annual ritual of Communitas is officially kicking off again.
Engage your senses in this unique honey-tasting and beeswax candle-making experience.
A groundbreaking installation and sound walk where art meets science on the shores of Geelong
Experience intuitive hand-building and ceramic techniques in a natural setting with Kim Drew.
Explore with Lucy Allinson noise pollution and how it affects our landscapes.
Image, sound, and time untether in a combined live foley and dance performance by Aviva Endean and Rebecca Jensen.
Drawing on principles of Chinese classical dance (influenced by Tai Chi) and incorporating visual art.
The Cloud Maker celebrates goddesses from each of the five female master musician’s cultures, evoking a time when music and language, art and life, were intertwined.
Sympoiesis celebrates “making with” through sensory experiences spanning visual arts, performance, conversations, and food.
A documentary project exploring the Ford Motor Company's closure and its impact on Geelong.
Rowlands’ work with found objects from Ford Motor Company (Geelong) allows its history to come into focus.
A performance lecture and exhibition presenting the history of Ham Hop, a ‘gold mountain wife.'
The community is invited to celebrate the After Walter Hopps exhibition on its closing night.
Ask in-person about curatorial practice, gallery protocols, exhibitions, installs, commissions and more.
A space for local practitioners to discuss, analyse and reflect upon their creative practice and works in development.
Learn arts writing essentials, and find the right language to anchor your practice.
Join artist and gallery technician Lucy Allinson for a talk and demonstration on how to install works to industry standards.
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.
A recently restored documentary by Christian Ghazi captures a crucial cross-section of the Palestinian resistance in Lebanon in 1970.