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X-Field – design practice in the margins
The X-Field exhibition showcases new work from a group of practitioners and
researchers at RMIT University who work across the disciplines of art, architecture,
landscape architecture and urbanism.
The collaborators from RMIT’s School of Architecture and Design include Charles
Anderson, Richard Black, Melanie Dodd, Sand Helsel, Andrea Mina and Sue Anne
Ware, with contributions from Richard Goodwin and Lynda Roberts, among others.
They work in the margins of their disciplines where they have discovered fertile
grounds for conversation and action: places of becoming, transaction, negotiation,
and improvisation.
Their investigations are field-based and include the ephemeral and transitory; the
ordinary and everyday. New readings are offered for the family home, a park
bench, the Murray River, mops and brooms, and discarded gum.
X-Field highlights their way of acting – their ethics – and the techniques they invent
and employ at many spatial and temporal scales. They reveal the invisible systems
that make things the way they are, and speculate upon what they can be.
“The project has a social and public agenda,” curator Sand Helsel said.
“We have made the work deliberately accessible, unlike many design practitioners,
in order to engage a broader audience into different ways of looking at and
operating within their environments.”
The exhibition starts its journey in Melbourne at fortyfive downstairs gallery and will
continue the conversation with similar communities of citizens and practitioners in
Beijing, Seoul and Taipei before returning to Melbourne with an expanded
dialogue.
X-Field, which is supported by the RMIT Design Research Institute and School of
Architecture and Design, runs from 18 to 28 August.
Information for Listings
What:
X-Field exhibition
When:
Wednesday, 18 August, to Saturday, 28 August, 11am-5pm
Where:
fortyfive downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Website:
For more information and interviews: Sand Helsel, 0438 941 590 or
sand.helsel@rmit.edu.au.
For general media enquiries: RMIT University Communications, Gosia
Kaszubska, (03) 9925 3176 or 0417 510 735.
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