Featuring artists Brook Andrew, Madison Bycroft, Katthy Cavaliere, Daniel Crooks, Julie Davies, Stano Filko, Patrick Pound, Alex Rizkalla, Si Yi Shen, Kieren Seymour, Batia Suter, and Tarryn Love
WORLDING
June 8 – July 19, 2024
Opening event: 4.00pm Saturday, June 8
Preview & Curator talk: 3.00pm
Platform Arts, 60 Little Malop Street, Djillong/Geelong, Wadawurrung Country
Worlding presents the works of twelve national and international contemporary artists that speak to a mobile understanding of how artists partake in the designing, building, and organising of a personal world through their practice.
Under the curation of Platform Arts’ Dr Amber Smith, the ‘worlding’ practices proposed in this exhibition reflect how artists un/build worlds and re/imagine the world as-it-is, with consideration to alternate realities, memory fields, truth-telling, and material-semiotic worlds. The mediums span video and digital media as well as object-based and archival practices. Worlding invites viewers to contemplate how one exists among, between, and surrounded by material networks of things.
Premiering is Waterlogue – Four on the Floor (2024), a four-channel video work by Madison Bycroft, which explores metric systems and how standards of measurement govern our speech, our expressions and our representation in images. Also featured is la casa (2002) by Katthy Cavaliere (1972-2012), Courtesy of National Art Archive, Art Gallery of NSW and the Estate of Katthy Cavaliere. The inclusion of Julie Davies’ Matter and Memory (from the Albert Street Archive, 2019), brings to Worlding a photographic series that speaks to the subject of collections.
Worlding runs as a six-week program that begins with a curator floor talk at 3.00pm followed by an opening event at 4.00 pm on Saturday, June 8th. There will be free public programming in partnership with The Centre For Reworlding, including a screening of Refugium followed by a Q+A session on Friday, June 28th; a cross-sector panel talk drawing on world-building expertise from an architect, author, game designer, and an exhibiting artist on Saturday, June 15th; and a film screening of Harry Hooton (1971) through Australian Film Workshop on Friday, June 21st. Platform Arts will also host open sessions of the game Dungeons & Dragons throughout the exhibition phase.
“By confronting our own attempts to world-build, we gain insight into the purpose of worlding being about identity and creating an environment that signals back to us—sometimes unconsciously—our identity and essentials like security and self-actualisation. We like to know that our immediate world meets our needs and desires.”
— Curator Amber Smith
With thanks to the Estates of Katthy Cavaliere, Stano Filko, and Alex Rizkalla, through the AGNSW Artist Archives. Platform Arts is supported by Creative Victoria and the City of Greater Geelong.
To learn more about the program or Platform Arts’ location and access, please visit our website. For further enquiries, contact curator@platformarts.org.au.
