VISUAL ARTS AUSTRALIA
PUBLIC ART MELBOURNE
BIENNIAL LAB
WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
M T W T
OCTOBER 06
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F S S
07 08 09
14 15 16
21 22 23
FREE
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The Queen Victoria Market, an iconic meeting
place for the city, has been explored anew
through the lens of leading Australian artists
as part of the inaugural Public Art Melbourne
Biennial Lab: What Happens Now? curated by
Natalie King.
From elaborate and evocative installations to
ethereal moments of human connection and
release, this suite of temporary new works will
reinterpret the Market; probing its Indigenous,
mercantile, migratory and colonial past, while
sharing its secrets and celebrating its stories.
In June this year, 14 artists were brought
together for an intense two-week period,
developing concepts in a laboratory environment
under the mentorship of international public
art experts. The results will be revealed at this
year’s Melbourne Festival with commissions
that respond to the many layers of meaning
embedded in the Market.
Lab Artists: Hiromi Tango; Jessie Bullivant;
Kiron Robinson; Steven Rhall; Willurai
Kirkbright; Sanné Mestrom and Jamie Hall
from The Mechanic’s Institute; Isobel Knowles
and Van Sowerwine; Jason Maling and Martyn
Coutts from Field Theory; Will Foster and
Gabrielle de Vietri from A Centre for Everything;
and Timothy Moore from SIBLING.
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VARIOUS TIMES
WORLD PREMIERE
QUEEN VICTORIA MARKET
CLOSING EVENT
SUN 23 OCTOBER
Melbourne Festival’s free program
proudly supported by the City of Melbourne
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