Treatment 3 Public Art Project
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posted on 2024-06-02, 23:39 authored by Cameron BishopCameron Bishop, David CrossDavid CrossTreatment 3 Public Art Project
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Multiple Venues from Scienceworks and public sites in Spotswood, Altona Nth and BrooklynStart date
2023-03-17End date
2024-04-17Notes
Treatment 3 was a major festival of public art that worked with numerous partners including Scienceworks, Westgate Tunnel Project, Hobsons Bay City and Melbourne Water to use contemporary art in the forms of film, land art, sculpture, participation and performance to highlight waste water infrastructure in Melbourne's west as the life blood of the city. The four projects commissioned in Hobsons Bay were created by important Australian artists and responded to site and themes carefully selected by the curators. There is legacy in the documentation of the works, the works themselves and in the important social and urban renewal issues they bring to bear. List of events and short descriptors of each work including communities worked with: One curator led Artists' Forum and Project Introduction March 17 One Launch Event at Scienceworks April 5 One major film work, "Prisoners", (Begg) at Scienceworks for one month - opening April 5. Partners and Communities: Sisters Inside (advocacy group for criminalised women) One major sculptural installation, "A Perpetual Reveal" (Andrew) at Scienceworks for one month - opening April 5 Partners and communities: Bunurong Land Council and Scienceworks One major participatory and performance work April 15/16: "No Sleep Until Brooklyn" (Nguyen). Partners and Communities: 15 emerging creatives from Melbourne's west. One major earthwork: "Tending a line in the Year of the Rabbit" (Tegg) at public site from March 17 to December 31 2023. Partners and community: Cadence Property Group, Oculus Landscape Design, The Sustainable Landscape Company, Community Groups One on-site curator led Artist Talk with Linda Tegg, April 1Research statement
Background Building on public art as a way to transform our often static notion of site to one of 'becoming' (Nato Thomson, 2015) we commissioned 4 major Aust artists -Zanny Begg, Linda Tegg, Robert Andrew, and James Nguyen- to make performance, film, participatory, sculptural and earth works. The curatorial approach Bishop and Cross took extends the paramaters for temporary public art practice through its response to waste water infrastructure, using art to challenge the stigma for those that live in close proximity to it, while imagining the historic network as a social connector, encouraging conversation among diverse communities about sustainability and history. Contribution The project investigates the complex relationship between public art on the geographical and political periphery, and the intertwining realist and materialist facts of sewage and public infrastructure. With close to $200,000 in funding the project sought to bring attention to the hidden histories underlining our critical public infrastuctures and the diverse communities in Melbourne's West, seeking to shed light on how public art practice can use research, stakeholder engagement and community co-production to engage disparate demographics in a dialogue about our histories, environments, politics, place-making and urban renewal. Significance Led by the curators in a dialogical process across multiple organisations, historians, and community groups Begg, Tegg, Andrew and Nguyen worked respectively with Sisters Inside (supporting criminalised women), Cadence Development Group and community group, Bunurong Land council, + local emerging creatives on a series of works that explored critical social, environmental and cultural issues. Two of the works were featured at Scienceworks (site of the old pumping station) while the curators were interviewed on radio several times including a long form story on the Art Show on radio National. Over one month tens of thousands of people saw the artworks in-situ.Publication classification
JC2 Curated Exhibition or Event – Exhibition/EventScale
NTRO MediumExtent
3 x MP4 videos 1 PDF with project summaries and mediaEditor/Contributor(s)
Bates M, Reis S, Morley R, Jones SRecognition, awards & prizes
Bishop and Cross, as Public Art Commission, were the only arts and/or culture organisation to receive funding from the Westgate Tunnel Project's $10,000,000 Grant scheme in 2021, The Westgate Neighbourhood Fund. They were originally awarded $217,000. Additionally both Hobsons Bay City Council and Melbourne Water contributed extensive in-kind costs.Event
Four curated works for Treatment 3: Prisoners, Zanny Begg; Tending a line in the Year of the Rabbit, Linda Tegg; Perpetual Reveal, Robert Andrew; No Sleep Till Brooklyn, James NguyenPublisher
Scienceworks / Westgate Tunnel Project (Westgate Neighbourhood fund) / Hobsons BayPlace of publication
Scienceworks / Spotswood / Altona Nth and BrooklynUsage metrics
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