Proximity 2020 Lab
15th Sep 2020
A two-week virtual Lab for Australian artists focused on shifting contexts, conditions and expanded possibilities for making participatory and site-responsive works.
In September 2020, Proximity and DADAA will partner together for the first time to facilitate a virtual lab for 10 WA and Australian-based artists.
The Proximity 2020 Lab will be facilitated by three artists, researchers, writers – Fayen d’Evie, Cassie Lynch and Madeleine Flynn, coordinated by Proximity in collaboration with DADAA. Proximity is a national artist platform known for commissioning intimate participatory experiences for audiences of one at a time.
Participating artists in the Lab include, Bruno Booth (WA), Dominique Chen (QLD), Hanna Cormick (ACT), Aviva Endean (VIC), Riana Head-Toussaint (NSW), Mei Swan Lim (WA), Justy Phillips & Margaret Woodward – A Published Event (TAS), Alec Reade (VIC) and Katie West (WA).
Read more about the Proximity Lab facilitators and artists here.
Guest Speakers: Caroline Bowditch, Claire Cunningham, Jeremy Smith, Kate Sulan, Latai Taumoepeau and Lyno Vuth.
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About the Lab and it’s intentions at this time
In this moment, of multiple ecological, health and social crises, the Proximity 2020 Lab creates space to think and share methodology in response to expanded notions of access and site-based participatory practice. How has our relationship to each other, to place and to audiences has shifted? What new conditions and alternatives do we want to create as we face forward?
Artists are invited to reflect on how they move through, relate to, and care for Country; how to radically open up and embed inclusive and access methodologies into their creative process, and how relationships to intimacy and proximity have altered as we start to emerge from a state of suspension.
What was originally planned to be a Lab taking place on the unceded lands of Noongar Boodjar in Fremantle, has now turned into a virtual Lab engaging artists across Australia. This shift has allowed new possibilities to think about lasting ways to design activities, embed access and equity across in-person and virtual spaces.
Proximity Lab runs from 21 September – 1 October 2020.
Proximity Lab is presented by Proximity and DADAA with support from the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body
Image: Bruno Booth, Hostile Infrastructure, 2019, Testing Grounds, Victoria. Photo: Keelan O’Hehir.
