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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Podcast Episodes
Laura Raicovich: Undoing and Redoing [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:17
Listen to writer and curator Laura Raicovich discuss the artworks and methodologies that inform Mithu Sen’s exhibition 'mOTHERTONGUE' in relation to Raicovich’s own practice which calls for institutional change to improv…
Mithu Sen in conversation [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:16:31
Listen to artist Mithu Sen in conversation with Max Delany, ACCA’s Artistic Director & CEO, alongside special guests Irina Aristarkhova, Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Digital Studies Institu…
Paul Yore In Conversation With Nick Henderson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:54
Listen to the in conversation with artist Paul Yore and Nick Henderson, volunteer committee member at the Australian Queer Archives, and Curator at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. They will be discussin…
WRITING & CONCEPTS Lecture with Mykaela Saunders [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:42
Listen to the lecture by editor Mykaela Saunders speaking on the critically acclaimed anthology 'THIS ALL COME BACK NOW'. 'THIS ALL COME BACK NOW' is the world’s first anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander s…
Artist Talks: Gian Manik, Jason Phu and Jahnne Pasco-White [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:53
Listen to our Artist Talks with Gian Manik, Jason Phu and Jahnne Pasco-White. This Artist Talk was recorded in association with the exhibition ' Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions', now showing at t…
Artist Talks: Lucina Lane, Betty Muffler and JD Reforma [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:22
This Artist Talk was recorded in association with the exhibition ' Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 4 September 2022.…
In Conversation: Frances Barrett and Daniel Mudie Cunningham [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:03
This conversation was recorded in association with the exhibition 'Frances Barrett: Meatus', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 19 June 2022. In this conversation we hear from ar…
Distribution series #3: Publishing Art Serials [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:11
Listen to Melbourne Art Library for the final in their series of discussions about the values of the public library. Reflecting on the library of written materials on public art, public culture and public space in the Re…