Listening, Observing And Making At The Quarry
Presented by Monash Architecture
DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Balam Balam Place, Ground Floor Community Room
15 Phoenix Street, Brunswick VIC, Australia
DATES
Fri 16 May 5 – 8pm
Sat 17 May 10am – 6pm
Listening, Observing and Making at The Quarry is an exhibition of a range of site-specific design projects that have been undertaken at a former sandstone quarry within the traditional lands of the Gadubanud, on the outskirts of the regional Victorian town of Beech Forest. Deeply damaged as a result of years of industrial use, the site is now being carefully rehabilitated through the facilitation and hosting of creative projects that serve as catalysts for the long-term ecological repair of this post-extractive landscape.
The projects presented in the exhibition include a browser-based sound work called ‘Sensing the Quarry’ by Jacqui Alexander, Paul Mylecharane and Polly Stanton that explores a speculative post-human future for the quarry; ‘Oct-Tree’ – an experimental prototype using non-standard material from the quarry by Monash Architecture students led by Tom Morgan and Gwyllim Jahn working with the Folgram platform on AR/VR headsets; and ‘Negative / Positive’, a temporary structure for gathering in the quarry that has been designed and made by a group of Monash master of architecture students led by Ross Brewin using reclaimed material from a former summer pavilion.
The exhibition also includes the screening of a video work about the making of the Negative/Positive project made by Ivan Masic.
Participants
Ross Brewin
Ross Brewin is co-director of Gilby Brewin Architecture and an academic in Architecture at Monash Art Design and Architecture (MADA) in Melbourne where he leads the Design Make program.
Jacqui Alexander
Jacqui Alexander is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Monash Art Design and Architecture (MADA), and a Director of Alexander & Sheridan Architecture. Her research explores the financialisation of the built environment via extractive technologies. She is interested in interdisciplinary and intersectional forms of creative practice as a means to develop new understandings, tools and coalitions in responding to these structural challenges.
Tom Morgan
Tom Morgan is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Monash Art Design and Architecture (MADA) with an architectural and urban research practice that focuses on the projective images of the city, generative design systems and alternative cartographies. He has a parallel research track which focuses on architectural pedagogy.
Polly Stanton
Polly Stanton is an artist and filmmaker. Her work explores how power is generated through land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Her mode of working is expansive and site based, with her practice intersecting across a number of disciplines from film production, sound design, field research, performance, writing and publication.
Paul Mylecharane
Paul Mylecharane is a graphic designer and web developer whose practice focuses mainly on the intersection of physical and digital publishing and its relationship to the archive. He works collaboratively under the name Public Office with people and organisations doing for and not-for-profit work in the arts, culture and education.
Gwyllim Jahn
Gwyllim Jahn is a Lecturer at RMIT and the co-founder of Fologram, an internationally awarded design research practice and startup developing software for designing and making in mixed reality. Fologram’s clients are leading researchers, designers and artists using mixed reality to explore new applications of traditional craft and digital fabrication.
Ivan Masic
Ivan Masic is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the interplay between music, light, and the moving image. He has collaborated with artists and institutions worldwide and recently toured Europe as lead DoP on the forthcoming film, Morning Star. He is currently working on a feature documentary on native grasslands, with support from Documentary Australia.