Interventionist Guide / Urban Curation / Platform Gallery Melbourne / October 2009
Exhibition / Platform Gallery. Degraves Street Subway / Launch: October 2 2009 / Season of Interventions: October 16-18 2009
During the month of October, the Platform Gallery at Flinders St Station is set to transform into a virtual map of Melbourne. Showcasing ten artists whose practice interrogates the urban fabric, the exhibition will reveal sites for individuals and groups to creatively and temporarily intervene with the city.
The Interventionist Guide is an exhibition which applies the principles of a flexible armature within a curatorial context – both framing my Masters research and providing a context for my ongoing practice. The intention of this project is to establish structures both organisational and physical which could provide or highlight opportunities for risk taking by way of public acts of creativity.
The project works on a range of scales – from the broad context of mapping the city, to the city interpreted within display cabinets and A5 sized zines within the subterranean Platform Gallery. It also engages with a range of artistic practitioners whose work ranges from the intimate wearable to the sound walk.