Venetian Blind
Venetian Blind is an art project featuring 23 Australian and New Zealand artists. Developed by Public Art Commission at Deakin University and curated by Cameron Bishop and David Cross, this hybrid exhibition/public art event will see six projects commissioned (one per month) over the duration of the European Cultural Centre’s Personal Structures exhibition from 8 May until 24 November 2019, in conjunction with the 58th Venice Biennale.
Venetian Blind prefaces the importance of site-based research, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and a compressed temporal register as productive constraints in the making of public art works and their documentation and location in the Palazzo Bembo.
Each project is produced by a team of artists who will work collaboratively in situ in Venice, responding to one of six provocations. These provocations engage with a unique aspect of Venetian history and focus on specific locations across the city, inviting teams to make a site-based or performative intervention into the city of Venice.
She renounced sympathy – Venetian Blind Response by Olivia Millard
I bring a different past with me. The real exists in a present that dies in the moment it is created. Something is held, maybe in the in between.
Is deception deliberate?
Movement that impels, movement that meets, movement that disappears.
Is the reality of failing to capture something a deliberate act of destruction or merely letting something slip away?
Eventually everything slumps into the swamp…”but he who is beside himself revolts at the idea of self-possession” (Mann 1912).
AllPlay Dance
AllPlay Dance is founded on a collaborative approach to research between the disciplines of Psychology and the Creative Arts. This genuine cross-disciplinary partnership brings a rigorous scientific methodology to an investigation of the benefits of dance for children with ASD, supported by responsive work in the development of dance programs. As well as directly measuring the benefits of the program for the participating population, the study acts a step in the continuing development of inclusive dance programs for children with a range of disabilities.
Still Point
Still Point (2019) brought together the research practices of spoken poetry text in audio, and dance in video form, exploring the synchronicities and differences between the two artforms. The artists Shaun McLeod, Olivia Millard, Victor Renolds and Lyn McCredden, collaboratively generated this installation work which explored narrativity, linearity, randomness, non-representativeness, the will to meaning-making and interpretation, and the borders between the sacred and the secular.
Exhibition: The Model Citizen, RMIT Gallery.
About Now
About Now, is the shared studio and improvisation practice of Peter Fraser, Shaun McLeod and Olivia Millard. The group have been practising and performing improvised works in research exhibitions and events including in public spaces since 2010.