Location
Geelong Art CentreStart date
2019-11-16End date
2019-11-16Language
engNotes
Presented initially as an artists talk about the project, the film artefact will be subsequently shown in other contexts eg festivals, galleries etc as it stands as a complete artwrok. The presentation of the film is accompanied by Professor Mirjana Lobanovska who will speak to the broader research of #VACANTGEELONG into post industrial spaces. The work both forefronts complexities inherent in a post industrial environment where vacancy and re development are rife and presents community activation of the spaces as they undergo seismic change that affect the broader community. The art work is a way to start convesations about the urgent issues facing Geelong, as it brands itself a digital city.Research statement
As GPAC undergoes architectural and cultural renewal we are responding to the questions:
What spaces in Geelong lie in stasis and how does creative practice (performance/performative) help re map these spaces to reinvent them?
To explore these questions, we bring a live performance that is a panel - a truly interdisciplinary project between architecture, visual art and performance. The live performance in the film will speak differently than a traditional documentation of a children's choir, one recording a trace or memory of a possible future, the other prompting a discussion to agitate for humans in an unknown future.
Where are the challenges our future generations face regarding Artificial Intelligence? Is the 'Digital Condition' (Stalder 2019) a cultural influence that reduces quality of life? Will those who understand the language of AI be able to oppress those who don't? How can future generations gain a voice and participate in their future given the overwhelming evidence of corruption of power and effects of the digital? Organisations such as ARS Electroncia have within their philosophy that ART THINKING is essential to give people some agency over the effect of new technologies. Our project seeks to unpack what these tensions are. With these questions in mind, we established a framework, a location, a lighting treatment, a youth choir, and directed the shoot as a whole to evoke and provoke audience response and to challenge how technology is used in creative practice - not as an end it itself, but as an active participant, an actor alongside the performers.Publication classification
JO4 Original Creative Works – OtherExtent
1 x MP3 file
3 x production stillsEditor/Contributor(s)
Lozanovska MRecognition, awards & prizes
Funded by Deakin University through a peer review process $3000Event
X Marks the Spot, as part of Reflex Symposium (2019 : Geelong, Victoria)Publisher
GAC/Deakin Symposium: ReflexPlace of publication
Geelong, Vic.
