Front Beach Back Beach- Four Curatorial Commissions
Front Beach Back Beach- Four Curatorial Commissions
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Background Sitting underneath the broader event conception and framing, this output includes the curation of four individual commissions. Each commission took place across a different location on the Mornington Peninsula and sought to investigate how artist and site selection might be imbricated with history and context to produce a complex and transformatory temporary public artwork. Operating in a field of research devoted to place-based curation and specifically its capacity to critically investigate history, narratives and the building of community resilience, these commissions sought to investigate and implement new knowledge in artist/curator research. Contribution Four Australian artists (Moller, Waup, LAST Collective, Bleach) were invited by Cross to respond to a broader framing premise predicated on researching key stories, events and sites of pre and post-colonial Mornington Peninsula/ Bunurong land. Embodying an innovative method that prefaced place-based research and community engagement, each commission sought to elide artistic intervention with broader discourses of environment, history, colonialism and geography. Straddling subject areas (the demise of the Chicory industry, a first nations response to paragliding, the Save Flinders Pier campaign), each work offered new approaches to telling local stories Significance FBBB was commissioned by leading Victorian Art space Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and supported with a substantial Rise grant 300k together with MP council funding and private patronage support (RACV). The forthcoming FBBB book published by MPRG includes essays by Australian scholars including Prof Jacqueline Milner, Andrew Atchison and Antonia Pont. Critical responses to the series included 'FBBB will go down in history' Professor Peter Hill. Leading Australian performers Sigrid Thornton and Sammy J contributed to the narrative voice overs and substantial media coverage took place across ABC and RRR.Scale
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Four discrete commissions curated by David Cross including the work of Vera Muller, Lucy Bleach, LAST Collective and Lisa WaupEditor/Contributor(s)
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Mornington Peninsula Regional GalleryUsage metrics
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