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Lorne Sculpture BiennalePublisher
Lorne Sculpture BiennaleLocation
Lorne BeachPlace of publication
Lorne, Vic.Start date
2018-03-01End date
2018-05-01Language
engRecognition, awards & prizes
$1,800 LSB Funding.Research statement
Background This NTRO sits in the field of socially engaged art and experimental pedagogy. A site-specific, temporary, spatial intervention was selected for activation by the curator of the Lorne Sculpture Biennale. The research investigated the question: how can a publicly activated, socially engaged art intervention mobilize intergenerational participation and other performative, material-discursive ways of reimagining the problematics of plastics and their impacts on marine environments? Complex and entangled interrelationships entwined with/in discourses, objects, spaces, bodies and performative practices rising to matter throughout the unexpected and disruptive nature of the work were also examined. Contribution Situated amidst static works on Lorne’s main beach, this intervention disrupted notions of passive viewership by inviting participants to respond to and co-create its immanently changing form. Experimental pedagogies were enacted to elicit social forms of connection, playful collaboration and a ‘please connect, feel and touch’ approach. These worked to shift the role of the viewer from passive spectatorship to active participation, as citizens re-curated donated objects and things, no longer wanted or needed. Conversations around the ubiquity of single use plastics circulated with/in the space as new co-constructed forms emerged. Significance This work was selected for inclusion by the curator of Australian Art at the Australian National Gallery. It was featured on the public record in various articles, on social media and in the Biennale catalogue and led to an invitation to speak about the work at a civic function for International Women’s Day. This project was viewed/activated by thousands of Australian and global citizens and tourists and led to further grants and interest from curators seeking generative, inclusive and accessible spatial interventions for diverse, intercultural and intergenerational audiences and participants.Publication classification
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