Making Spaces Public

Making Spaces Public

Author: ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art) March 28, 2022 Duration: 53:15
Urbanists and planners need to engage in broader and messier practices if they are to design inclusive and accessible public spaces. The production of space is as much a social and political process, as a physical one, and identities of places are often latent, contested and invisible. A new genre of artists and creative practitioners are engaging in public space, using site-based practices that catalyse new uses, build new constituencies, and amplify marginalised voices. Moderated by Mel Dodd, this roundtable event brings together five leading creative practitioners from Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA) – Gene Bawden, N’arweet Carolyn Briggs, Emily Floyd, Timothy Moore and Sarah Lynn Rees – all working in the public realm, to reveal a more representative city and explore the ways we can make spaces truly public.

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Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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Toilets [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 0:25
Toilets by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Centipede [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:01
Centipede by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Agritemple [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:22
Agritemple by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Trickle down [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 0:46
Trickle down by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Grief Ramp [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:16
Grief Ramp by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Title wall [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:53
Title wall by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Panel discussion: Living Queer Histories [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:36
Listen to our panel discussion focusing on the lineages of queer histories on the present. Featuring the research and practices of three speakers, Angela Hesson, Patrice Sharkey and Elyssia Wilson-Heti, who variously eng…
Artist Talks: Andy Butler and Nicholas Smith [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:20
Listen to our talk with artists Andy Butler and Nicholas Smith on their new works presented as part of 'Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions'. This podcast was recorded as part of an Artist Talk at ACCA on Sat…