10 – 12 October
Guided Walks: 12pm and 1pm (30 min each)
Meet at Main Gate
Free Event
10 – 12 October
Guided Walks: 12pm and 1pm (30 min each)
Meet at Main Gate
Free Event
Borrow A Brick for Contact Listening is built as Joy Zhou explores public space with active listening that re-experiences the Convent through momentary encounters, made possible through collective input. The process engages with community collaboration, fostering collective dialogues as a disruptive force that trouble prescribed norms and binaries in public spaces.
The project is made with site-specific materials and simple sound-making devices such as a contact microphone, allowing people to experience vibrancies embodied in objects and their materiality.
Are you an existing Convent audience, artist or creative, interested in walking and spatial exploration? Then this is the perfect project for you. Using instructions and the map provided, discover overlooked voices and unexpected experiences.
10 – 12 October
12pm und 1pm (30 mins each)
Meet at Main Gate
Free. Registration required.
Joy Zhou
Practices as an artist, designer and producer based in Naarm/Melbourne. Their practice engages the affective interior and exterior conditions, unfolds experiences in everyday life with temporary interventions that queer the norms, and aims to amplify overlooked existences. Joy’s creative process is responsive to existing conditions.
They responds to space with embodied knowledge and corresponding power dynamics that are embedded in their intersectional perspectives. In this practice, space is reframed through relationships. There is not one fixed medium they work with, but responding to the context, stretching across sonic, graphic, textual, performative, spatial, and socially-engaged practices.
Ceri Hann
A multidisciplinary arts practitioner who develops participatory art forms intended to enhance the conditions for collective idea generation. This approach to practice often avoids categorisation, as the outcomes are intentionally defused in the wonder/wander of everyday life. Ceri’s completed PhD research at RMIT, The Making of a Knowledge Casino (2016). Ceri has been a sessional tutor and guest lecturer in the School of Art and School of Architecture and Design at RMIT and has an ongoing engagement within the Art in Public Space and MFA post-graduate programs.
Ceri has presented work at Melbourne Comedy Festival (2017), Liquid Architecture (2015), RMIT Project Space (2014) and run workshops at West Space, Blindside Sound Series and Testing Grounds. Ceri is also one half of Public Assembly.
Jessica Tanto
A Chinese-Indonesian creative and thinker based in Melbourne. As a multidisciplinary artist, they have produced site-specific interventions, performances, and community workshops in both digital and physical spaces. Jessica’s creative process is informed by their diverse educational background in fine arts, psychology, occupational therapy, and anthropology, as well as their experience living between Java and Melbourne.
They use playfulness to empower people to reflect on social norms and the unnoticed challenges present in everyday life. Their practice is grounded in honesty, curiosity, and love.
Justine Walsh
A non-binary artist based in unceded Kulin Nations. Their ancestry is Irish, English, Jewish (Poland) and Anglo-Burmese. With materials including stone, eggshells, plants, voice, sound, film and performance, Justine creates gestures of intimacy, subtly posing questions of being and emptiness through iterative & process-based making.
They carve, collect, listen, and produce sound works, arranging these elements together as remnants and offerings. Grounded in a deep-rooted vocal and sound practice, inspired by experimental archaeology and folk healing, they gather and research, sensing affinities in their own experiences and customs of ritual, grieving, transformation and renewal.
