Power to the People!
September 24th until 24th October 2015
Spanish artist Julio Falagán’s work questions power and the established status quo through humour and irony. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to become participants and collectors by photocopying and stamping the artist’s work in the gallery.Come along and start your very own art collection – along with discussions about production/reproduction/ copyright and artist’s moral rights and remuneration. All coin donations collected will be sent to the RMIT Scholarship Philanthropy Fund to support disadvantaged undergraduate students.
Power To The People Pre-Opening Discussion
Be the first to print your very own artwork and chat to the artist Julio Falagán over churros
and Spanish wine on his Melbourne visit, at a pre-opening talk on “The Media and Popular Culture’, together with Dr Antonio Castillo and Ciro Márquez.
Date: 4.30 – 5.30 pm, Thursday 24 September
Venue:Location: RMIT Gallery
Free: Bookings essential as places are strictly limited: (03) 9925 1717.
Performing Mobilities
September 24th until 24th October 2015
Caption:UK Artist Graeme Miller’s haunting audio-visual installation BEHELD features in Performing Mobilities.
This exhibition of new Australian and international work explores and reimagines systems of movement, place and event through challenging creative practices and ideas.
Curated by Mick Douglas, this exhibition seeks to creatively and critically explore forms, forces, dynamics, meanings and consequences of performing mobility through a program of new experimental work.
Performing Mobilities explores how contemporary life in Australia, the world’s largest island continent, is framed by borders whilst constantly being reconstructed through dynamic processes of mobility. The works encompass the performing, visual, new media and social and spatial arts, revealing tensions around movement of people migrating lands or crossing a city; the movement of cultural ideas and social practices; the movement of matter through time and across space and through transformations of state; and the movement of non-human species and other than human forces.
UK Artist Graeme Miller – Beheld & beyond - public talk
Graeme Miller’s installation Beheld (2006 -), showing at RMIT Gallery as part of Performing Mobilities, frames the social and political in its geography. Updated with a haunting event that occurred in Sydney airport, this powerful installation charts locations where stowaways have fallen to earth from the wheelbays of airliners in an interactive projection of image and sound in glass.
Date: 1-2pm, Friday 25 September
Venue: RMIT Gallery
Free: Bookings essential as places are strictly limited: (03) 9925 1717.
Full program details and updates, including companion curators and supporting partners, are online at Performing Mobilities Network.
Performing Mobilities is the Australian program of Fluid States – a globally distributed performance research project taking place in a sequence of 15 different locations over 2015.
Exhibiting artists: Mammad Aidani, Omid Movafagh, Mike Fard, Mohsen Panahi and Hoda Kazemitame; Chris Barry; Lucy Bleach; Mick Douglas; Paul Gazzola and Nadia Cusimano with plan b; Jondi Keane and Kaya Barry; La Jete (IT); Graeme Miller (UK); Open Spatial Workshop; Punctum; David Thomas and Laurene Vaughan.
Mobile performances: Bill Aitchison (UK); Kim Donaldson; Ceri Hann, Benjamin Cittadini, Fiona Hillary & Shanti Sumartojo; Deirdre Heddon (UK); Angela Kilford (NZ); Shaun McLeod, Peter Fraser, Olivia Millard, Sophia Cowen & Victor Renolds; Sasha Grbich & Heidi Angove; Eddie Paterson and Lara Stevens; Brian Ritchie and Stuart Tanner; Sam Trubridge (NZ).