NGV Triennnial | Opening Weekend – Candice Breitz, Humberto Campana, Joris Laarman, Formafantasma

CANDICE BREITZ IN CONVERSATION | SUN 17 DEC, 6.30PM–7.30PM

$20 M / $25 A / $22.50 C

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/candice-breitz-in-conversation/

International artist Candice Breitz, discusses her multiscreen video installation Love Story, 2016, a work that focusses on the current, worldwide refugee crisis, in conversation with director and producer Ivan O’Mahoney.

Doors open at 6pm with drinks available for purchase.

Candice Breitz is internationally recognised as a leading contemporary photographic and video artist. Her latest video installation Love story, 2016, considers the global scale of the refugee crisis. The work reflects on how celebrities are often treated by the media as more newsworthy than people facing real-world adversity. The film is based on interviews conducted with six people who have fled their countries as a result of a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Mardini, who escaped war-torn Syria; José Maria João, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa, a survivor from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Saveri, an Indian transgender activist; Luis Nava, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed, a young atheist from Somalia. The interviews were conducted in the cities where each individual is seeking or has been granted asylum (Berlin, New York and Cape Town).

Ivan O’Mahoney is a director, producer and co-founder of In Films. In former lives Ivan O’Mahoney was a lawyer and UN peacekeeper in Bosnia. His BBC film The Devil’s Footpath took him from Cairo to Cape Town through a non-stop line of conflict-riven countries. In 2010, he won a Walkley and a Logie for the Four Corners program Code of Silence and the Australian Directors Guild Award for the refugee series Go Back To Where You Came From (SBS), before co-founding In Films. At In Films, he produced Borderland for Al Jazeera America, a four-part series on illegal immigration. He directed the AACTA and Walkley-winning series Hitting Home with Sarah Ferguson and most recently completed The Queen & Zak Grieve, a series of films on mandatory sentencing for The Australian Online, nominated for the Australian Human Rights Award.

OBJECTS WITH STORIES: HUMBERTO CAMPANA | SAT 16 DEC, 11.30AM–12.30PM

FREE ENTRY

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/objects-with-stories-humberto-campana/

Evoking the colour and creative chaos of São Paulo in Brazil, the Campana brothers create exuberant yet thoughtful design work that celebrates the triumph of simple solutions in a complex world. Since 1983, the influential design collaboration between Humberto and Fernando Campana has achieved international recognition as one of the world’s most progressive and successful design studios. Their work captures the essence of transformation and reinvention, imbuing commonplace and ordinary materials with preciousness.

For the NGV Triennial Humberto and Fernando Campana have created Victoria Amazonica, 2017, in collaboration with Yarrenyty Arltere Artists based in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

On the opening weekend of NGV Triennial, Humberto Campana reflects on his experience of this collaboration, and discusses his design practice as part of Estudio Campana.

Speakers

Humberto Campana, designer, Estudio Campana

Ewan McEoin, The Hugh Williamson Senior Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture, NGV

CRAFTING TECHNOLOGY: JORIS LAARMAN | SAT 16 DEC, 4.30PM–5.30PM

FREE ENTRY

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/crafting-technology-joris-laarman/

Will robots take over all of our work, or will digital fabrication usher in a new era in which craftsmanship, enabled by technology, regains a central position in society?

With reference to his collection of experimental furniture on display in NGV Triennial, Joris Laarman investigates these questions while demonstrating that we are on the cusp of great change.

In 2004 Laarman, together with his partner and filmmaker Anita Star, founded a lab in Amsterdam to collaborate with craftspeople, scientists and software engineers. Laarman is interested in how technology can transform design, and uses emerging technology to develop futuristic objects and design processes. His work provides insight into the shifting nature of design and manufacturing, revealing that we are at the point of a dramatic transition from large-scale twentieth-century industrial manufacturing to a new twenty-first-century paradigm of small-scale and decentralised digital fabrication.

Speakers

Joris Laarman, designer

Simone LeAmon, The Hugh Williamson Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture, NGV

ORE STREAMS: FORMAFANTASMA | SUN 17 DEC, 11.30AM–12.30PM

FREE ENTRY

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/ore-streams-formafantasma/

Formafantasma – one of the most watched design practices in the world – presents the research behind their ground-breaking new work Ore Streams, an investigation into the murky world of electronic waste, precious metals and the global trading systems for e-waste rife with illegal and contested activity.

Ore Streams explores the complex processes related to sourcing and transforming metals. The work proposes a new future of ‘above ground mining’, heralding the end of mining as we know it and a new language for the design of electronics.

With this project, presented as part of NGV Triennial, Formafantasma ask how designers, who define what materials will become, can fail to consider the sources or potential afterlife of the products they create.

Speakers

Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, designers, Formafantasma

Ewan McEoin, The Hugh Williamson Senior Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture, NGV

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