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Insights into Practice: Embedding Accessibility
Please note: the venue for this event has changed, and will be now taking place at Brunswick Mechanics. Updated Jun 30 2PM
Join us for a facilitated panel discussion with artists Luke Duncan King, Larissa MacFarlane and Gemma Mahadeo who share their learnings and experiences about creating work with access at its core.
This event is part of Making it in Moreland by Arts Moreland, a free series of workshops, gatherings and talks presented by Next Wave in partnership with Moreland City Council
Sustainability in Art Practice with Kay Abude
You’re invited to a free 2-hour workshop with Melbourne based artist Kay Abude at Mood Studios, where we’ll gather for an afternoon of food and conversation to discuss sustainability in art practice.
This event is part of Making it in Moreland by Arts Moreland, a free series of workshops, gatherings and talks presented by Next Wave in partnership with Moreland City Council
Possession –– Marcus Whale
Desire is a form of possession, commanding the body from within. Do we resist its embrace, or allow it to compel us wherever it must? Drawing on film tropes of the monster queer, this electronic opera for one is a magical summoning – a longing for communion with the invisible, where the performer’s body moves, and is moved by sound.
Possession celebrates the high drama and craft of opera via a solo performer inhabited by forces beyond human control.
The Revolution Will Not Be Aestheticised –– Warraba Weatherall
How do we see the world around us, when the dominant contemporary visual language is determined by colonial histories and capital?
In The Revolution Will Not Be Aestheticised artist Warraba Weatherall considers the way that scientific and cultural perspectives inform contemporary cultural knowledge systems and forms of representation. Researched through archival materials, Australian politics, and Indigenous knowledges, the exhibition encourages a deeper insight into the construction and transmission of Indigenous knowledge systems and its direct influence in shaping social, political and cultural futures. In assessing how cultural archetypes are maintained throughout society, Weatherall builds on an existing dialogue of contemporary cultural identity to consider what encourages a healthy cultural continuum.
Archive
Contribute: Department of Lost Notes
Free Public Program: Jacqui Shelton
Music in Exile Presents: Chikchika + DJ Kgomotso Sekhu
Leisuretime I - Aaron Claringbold & Rebecca McCauley
Secretos de la Raíz - Innato –– Kathleen Gonzalez
Hyperlocal Headlines - Make or Break
Insights into Practice: The Power of Community and Vulnerability
Credit: Belinda Locke, ‘Everyday Acts of Disobedience’. Photo: Jack Dixon-Gunn
Credit: Studio Portrait of Aida Azin. Photo: Thomas McCammon
Image: Jenny Barnes. Courtesy of the artist.
Image: Lily Nie at Paperlily Studio. Courtesy of Emerging Writers’ Festival
Credit: The Purple Shall Govern (2022). Photo: Jody Haines.
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Credit: Silk screen printed textiles in the studio (2021). Photo: Kay Abude.
Image: Marcus Whale - Possession. Photo: Rena Zheng.
Image: Kathleen Gonzalez, Secretos de la Raiz (video still), 2022
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Image: New North Foreign, Intimate Concert 4. Courtesy of New North
Image: Radical Hospitality at Next Wave. Photo: Mae Hatrick (2022)
Image: Here We Have It by Amrita Hepi, 2021, VCA Dance, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne. Image by Gregory Lorenzutti.
Image: James McLean (photo credit James McLean)
Image: Jacqui Shelton ‘Department of Lost Notes’ Anne Moffat (2022)
Coil, Image: Lucy Parakhina (2022)
Image: Coil. Photo: Rosie Hasties (2022)
Image: install of Jacqui Shelton at Brunswick Mechanics. Courtesy of the artist.
Image: Chik Chika Photo: Nick Mckinlay
Image: Jacqui Shelton ‘Department of Lost Notes’ video- still 2022
Image: Leisuretime I. Photo: Aaron Claringbold and Rebecca Mccauley (2022)
Image: Magic Steven. Courtesy of the artists and Brunswick Music Festival.
Image: Maria Moles. Photo: Nick Mckinlay
Image: Brunswick Mechanics Institute. Photo: Anne Moffatt (2020)
Image: Coil. Photo:Diana Domonkos
The Revolution Will Not Be Aestheticised
Sat 9 Jul –– Sat Aug 13
Opening event: Sat Jul 9, 4-6pm
📍 Metro Arts
How do we see the world around us, when the dominant contemporary visual language is determined by colonial histories and capital?
In The Revolution Will Not Be Aestheticised artist Warraba Weatherall considers the way that scientific and cultural perspectives inform contemporary cultural knowledge systems and forms of representation. Researched through archival materials, Australian politics, and Indigenous knowledges, the exhibition encourages a deeper insight into the construction and transmission of Indigenous knowledge systems and its direct influence in shaping social, political and cultural futures. In assessing how cultural archetypes are maintained throughout society, Weatherall builds on an existing dialogue of contemporary cultural identity to consider what encourages a healthy cultural continuum.
Including film and paintings, the artist juxtaposes the complexities of his own Kamilaroi heritage and prescribed cultural aesthetics.
Keep an eye on Metro’s website for events and activities related to this exhibition.
Accessibility to the venue
Metro Arts (West Village) is a wheelchair accessible venue. Please refer to the Metro Arts website for more information about access.
Artist bio
Warraba Weatherall is a Kamilaroi visual artist, Lecturer at Griffith University and DVA candidate, who is currently based in Meanjin (Brisbane). Warraba’s artistic practice has a specific interest in archival repositories and structures, and the life of cultural materials and knowledges within these environments.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and is the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
The Revolution Will Not Be Aestheticised was co-commissioned by Next Wave and Metro Arts for Next Wave Festival 2020.
Courtesy of the artist.