At The Above Presents

AT THE ABOVE is a social sculpture. Collectively made, continually moulded anew.
That’s why, Melbourne Design Week, we’re putting a roof over unique talent, curious heads, open minds.
10 days of precise programming. A delightful mutt of an event. Exhibit, fair, party; art, design, print, music, food, champagne!
‘AT THE ABOVE PRESENTS’
ANNIE PAXTON (AUS) functional sculpture.
DALTON STEWART (AUS) furniture design.
ACID MAGAZINE (FR) installation.
IDLE (USA) installation and in residency.
BROWN SAUCE (AUS) artwork.
PAPER-CUTS (AUS) live vinyl DJ set.
JOE JONES X PENFOLDS x FLORIAN (AUS) champagne-food pairing.
TOM FEREDAY (AUS/UK) furniture design.
Sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself, Miles Davis famously said. Sometimes it is necessary to state the obvious, Jasper Johns less
famously said.
After 5 years. Clear as ever. At the Above sounds like itself.
98 shows. 1827 days. 459 Zoom calls. 565 trips to Bunnings.
(95 unforeseen Bunnings excursions).
11,777 bottles of champagne.
Artists in residence, artists in isolation, artists on the roof. You get the idea.
Google suggests avoiding “excessive self-focus” as a guiding social rule. And ATA endorses this.
The first press release ever written (1906) was a trainwreck. Literally, a train crash announcement. And maybe this quasi-release is another casualty. But creative work (everything?) is about doing the thing. Doing it. Keep doing it.
Sometimes beyond logic! sense!
Doing it. Then doing it some more.
We’re energised humbled and elated to keep doing this thing. To make what didn’t exist yesterday. Sculpt the present. Meld disciplines, community, culture
and industry.

To be At the Above. Not @ the above.

Quick! Look busy! People are saying, The robots are coming. Painting’s kaput.
RIP they say. Print is dead. Music’s over. Forcing At the Above to consider a reexamination of necrophilia (!!)