This public program convenes a series of discursive and performative events, accompanying the exhibition The place we do not know is the place we are looking for, currently running at West Space and Liquid Architecture’s former studio, at Collingwood Yards. Amplifying the mode of the gathering, the program assembles and attends to resonant practices that are inventing languages to hold ineffable dreams, desires, stories and encounters; unfixed from the discretisation of time, bodies and sensing. Co-presented by Liquid Architecture, West Space, and Sarai-CSDS, the various satellite events will unfold at various venues including West Space, CY Space, Composite, MUMA Monash and beyond.
Program
6pm to 8pm
Recompositions Film Sections
‘I am only Making a Report’ (2023) by Vaibhav Abnave
(George Paton Gallery), University of Melbourne
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11am to 1pm
Score for a Subtle Body
(A workshop performance by Shareeka Helaluddin)
(West Space) and (CY Space), Collingwood Yards
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2.30 to 4pm
A Field (of) Recording
Discussion with Hayden Ryan, Aarti Jadu & Claire de Carteret around their work, processes, and approaches towards field recordings in relation to land, country, memory, and materiality.
(West Space)
6.30 to 8.30pm
Recompositions Film Sections
at the (Brunswick Mechanics Institute)
Priyanka Chhabra ‘Iqrarnaama’ (55m0s)
Raqs Media Collective ‘The cyclist who fell into a time cone’ (25m0s)
(Composite)
11am to 2pm
Machine Listening workshop
at (MUMA Monash)
Egocentric Perception workshop: a closed workshop with Machine Listening and the artists of The place we do not know is the place we are looking for.
Presented in collaboration with Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) in association with Image Economies, curated by Stephanie Berlangieri, Melanie Oliver and Francis E. Parker, 8 Feb–17 Apr. 2025, and featuring the work of Machine Listening.
11am to 1pm
Reading of ‘Rock Paper Scissors’ facilitated by Priyanka Chhabra
(West Space) and (CY Space)
11am to 1pm
Readings from Recompositions Book Sections with exhibition curators Suvani Suri and Laura McLean and the artists
(West Space)
3pm to 4pm
Recompositions Film Sections
Alana Hunt, ‘Surveilling a Crime Scene’ (21m58s) followed by discussion with the artist
(CY Space), Collingwood Yards
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5pm to 6pm
Performance lecture by Joel Spring
(CY Space), Collingwood Yards
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6pm to 7pm
For every name, a forest (Artist presentation by Merv Espina with Kulagu Tu Buvongan)
(CY Space), Collingwood Yards
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Full day program
(CY Space), Collingwood Yards
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11.30am to 1pm
(Artist Presentations) Aarti Sunder, Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Rahee Punyashloka responding to the material of memory and memorialisation while working through the modes of writing, fictioning and listening
1pm
Lunch Break by Camille Thomas
2pm
The place we do not know is the place we are looking for exhibition walk through with curators Suvani Suri & Laura McLean.
West Space and LA former studios, Collingwood Yards
3.30pm
Pathos: Notes on a system. A lecture-performance by Thomas Smith
5pm
Ion Drift: Postscripts on the move. A lecture-performance by Merve Ertufan and Mochu
6.30pm
Bootleg Tongue mixtape. Performance by Aasma Tulika
12 noon to 6pm
Cookout Scenes with I’m all out of spoons: Ronen Jafari & Juliette Berkeley and super dumpling potluck: Merv Espina.
This closing event at (KINGS) features an improv set/ jam session with Aasma Tulika, Reibang Chakma, Shareeka Helaluddin, Thomas Smith, and Suvani Suri.
With improv sound performance from Aasma Tulika, Reibang Chakma, Shareeka Helaluddin, Thomas Smith, Suvani Suri.
