Collective Lines: Drawing Housing Precarity
Collective Lines: Drawing Housing Precarity
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Norla Dome Launch of HOME and Promotional Videos at Mission to Seafarers, DocklandsEditor/Contributor(s)
Jetmar IStart date
2024-12-06End date
2024-12-13Research statement
Background Algorithms play a largely hidden yet pervasive role in shaping contemporary life and hence have also become an increasingly important cultural phenomenon requiring deeper study. While the visual arts have investigated algorithms as a generative process, and as a means of questioning subjectivity, most of those investigations have been confined to purely abstract idioms. This research investigates how algorithmic play can augment our embodied perceptual and representational systems and suggest more dynamic, participatory ways of engaging with audiences, histories, locations and sites Contribution This exhibition extends my investigation into rule-based, participatory art practices through a new dialogue with transdisciplinary research. Responding to an invitation from HOME SRIC, the work encourages audiences to engage with and reflect upon home and housing precarity. The project resulted in 5 large-scale site-specific drawings that synthesized representational elements, rule-based procedures, and collaborative data visualisation. In this way, the work offers innovative and embodied ways of engaging publics with academic research and serves as a useful model for how arts-based approaches can contribute to transdisciplinary research. Significance Developed for and facilitated at the Norla Dome, Mission to Seafarers building, this project highlighted new possibilities for participatory knowledge-making. The work formed one of two exhibition-performances central to the public launch of Deakin’s HOME Strategic Research Centre. Bringing together internationally recognised researchers, policy makers, community organisations, and the wider public, the event created a rare site of exchange across sectors and lived experiences. The exhibition demonstrated how publics can be engaged not merely as recipients of research outcomes but as active participants in the process of sharing and visualising data.Event
Launch of HOME at Mission to SeafarersPublisher
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