Free Public Program  Webbing - Field Notes

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Free Public Program Webbing - Field Notes

Guided artist talk and screening for Webbing by Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse

By BLINDSIDE

Date and time

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM AEST

Location

BLINDSIDE

714 Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia

About this event

This program guides participants through the Nicholas Building in a consideration of key themes unfurled and entangled in the scope of the exhibition Webbing. Lead by artists Jaxon Waterhouse and Chantelle Mitchell, participants will be encouraged and supported in developing field notes that attend to human/more-than-human encounters and infrastructures within the exhibition space and beyond. Engaged in observation, reflection and speculation, participants will become entangled in the many narrative webs seeded across the site.

Beginning in the Blindside gallery, and with the assistance of our more-than-human collaborators, Argiope mascordi inhabiting the exhibition space, this program attempts to weave its way across site. Equipped with guides and notational equipment, participants in this public program will wander with the arts through the building before arriving at a dedicated space for a screening of John Woodman’s 1979 short film, Spider.

Details:

Meet at BLINDSIDE Gallery (Level 7)

Guided walk and talk through Nicholas Building

Screening at Laneway Learning (Level 3, Room 14)

* Seating available for 30 people

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BLINDSIDE is where you can expect the unexpected. We create dynamic and transformative experiences that activate and expand the possibilities of contemporary art.

BLINDSIDE provides unique experiences for artists and their development, always striving to expand the sphere of artistic practice and empowering artists to see into fruition bold and spectacular ideas. We provide the opportunity for audiences to see the breadth of contemporary art practice from sculpture, drawing, painting and performance art, through to new media, video, sound, installation and craft. If you are heading to our space, expect the unexpected.

We take pride in supporting arts writers as well as artists. All of our exhibitions are supported with critical texts to contextualise the work. We are also committed to the role of education in the future of contemporary art practice and so we offer an extensive program of talks, workshops and forums for artists, the general public and visiting school groups. With an expanding program and strong organisational rigour, and after a decade of developing and presenting contemporary art practice within the city of Melbourne, we are committed to becoming more responsive and engaged with our audiences and community than ever before.

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