Experimental Institutionalism: Expanded with ruangrupa and The Unbound Collective

Experimental Institutionalism: Expanded with ruangrupa and The Unbound Collective

Author: ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art) July 1, 2021 Duration: 1:22:00
What similarities and alliances can be drawn across borders, and how do we work and learn differently in response to the specificities of locality, place, culture and community? Can we work better together? What futures are possible or likely for the contemporary art ecology? Listen now to Expanded: Collectivity and Solidarity in Changing Times now, with ruangrupa and The Unbound Collective, as part of our lecture series Experimental Institutionalism: Contemporary Art and Curatorial Ecologies. ruangrupa is a Jakarta-based collective established in 2000. It is a non-profit organization that strives to support the idea of art within urban and cultural context by involving artists and other disciplines such as social sciences, politics, technology, media, etc, to give critical observation and views towards Indonesian urban contemporary issues. ruangrupa also produce collaborative works in the form of art projects such as exhibition, festival, art lab, workshop, research, as well as book, magazine and online-journal publication.  The Unbound Collective brings together years of research in a performance that moves through spaces that have historically seen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians excluded and reduced to tell untold chapters of Australia’s true history. The Collective consists of Ali Gumillya Baker (curator), Simone Ulalka Tur, Faye Rosas Blanch and Natalie Harkin.

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