Tell me when it ends: great curatorial minds met last Friday to discuss how to keep audiences in suspense in order to confront uncomfortable truths @ngvmelbourne@mmcakorea #Melbournedesignweek
Amita Kirpalani, NGV curator
Jihoi Lee, MMCA curator
Kate Rhodes, SLV curator
Keinton Butler, Powerhouse curator
Park Chankyong, artist
Rubbish on the shore (ROTS): there's heaps of it washing up in the Top End, including ghost nets, from careless behaviour in the region. A few weeks back, a crosscultural thinktank - Indigenous rangers, Traditional Owners, designers, material scientists - explored design solutions to keep Sea Country healthy. The second iteration will be held at @ngvmelbourne on Tuesday May 28. DM me with your email if you would like a ticket #melbournedesignweek @agencyprojects photos Timothy Hillier
Respect to the Gumatj Clan for hosting us at Gulkula and to the Yolŋu Clan Groups of the Miwatj Region.
Iconic: Mayatili Marika. Around 100 people gathered over the last 3 days to discuss how to protect sea country from marine debris in @agencyprojects Rubbish on the shore think-tank in Gulkula on Yolŋu Country. Among custodial duties as a Rirratjiŋu Traditional Owner, assisting in the management of 550,000 hectares of land and sea country as Chair of Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation, sausage roll and smoko runs, facilitating a conference, and family drama - always a true friend and inspiration. Ŋarra djäl nhuna, babe. Nhäma yalala.
After one million people passed through, it's time to kiss goodbye to NGV Triennial 2023 with a smile, and totems and momentos for a multi species festival; film, tapestry and furniture raising awareness of the impacts of avocado consumption; air as building material, someone we all hold in common; people queuing for the dole office around an amphora; objects and textiles echoing the salon, a place of knowledge exchange for women - with these works, and many more, being curated by NGVs department of contemporary design and architecture.
1. Dunne & Raby, Designs for a world of many worlds: After the festival
2. Fernando Laposse, Conflict avocados
3. Nic Brunsdon, (This is) air
4. Jessica Murtagh, Modern relic IV: All in this together
5. Bethan Laura Woods, Kaleidoscope-o-rama
1, 2, 4, 5 photo: Sean Fennessy
3 photo Ben Hoskings
Addressing the climate emergency is not only a technological problem, it's a cultural and political one. @liam_y Planetary Redesign exhibition at @ngvmelbourne speculates on what we can do to tackle this seemingly insurmountable conundrum. Curated by @ewanmceoin and myself, the show will be on until the end of this long summer. DM me for a tour. Photos: Sean Fennessy
Exhibition design: Annika Toohey; Communication design: Sunny Lei; Multimedia: James Josephides, Ella Sowinska, Tyson Brown, Steven Protuder, Joshua Richards, Benjamin Ducroz, Gabe Hanvey, Greta Colicchia; Lighting: Artur Panos + more
Dystopia, mutable bodies, the uncanny. Watch & Chill 3.0 is now showing online and at @mmcakorea The exhibition features 23 artists, designers and filmmakers from Asia, Oceania and the Americas under the theme of Streaming Suspense.
This third iteration materialised from a decentralised curatorium (that's a mouthful) with @mmcakorea@peabodyessex@tonofestival@ngvmelbourne (Amita Kirpalani and myself). The final cycle is coming to NGV in 2024
A billion thanks to @jihoinim for being the guiding spirit.
Greater Melbourne has grown by one million people in the last decade. This has been matched by increased investment in new architecture projects to provide anchors in this wild urban growth - Melbourne's new civic centres. Designed by the city's leading architects and landscape architects they are a confident expression of a rapidly changing social, cultural and economic landscape. (Curated by me 👋: ExDesign by NGV Design Studio, Jenny Kan)
Installation views of Civic Architecture on display as part of the Melbourne Now exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre. Images @peterbbennetts (except image 2 in the carousel)
Large format photography and portraits @tobiastitzphotography
Last image NMBWs Garden Building @rmituniversity@ngvmelbourne #MelbourneNow
No house style dominates contemporary furniture and residential architecture in Melbourne. This pluralism exists alongside a growing appreciation of contemporary design alongside the accumulation of wealth for some homeowners. It's also seen architects and designers rise to the challenge to provide quality affordable housing and furniture design. Curated by @simoneleamon and myself, No House Style is a tableaux of these trends.
Installation views of NHS on display as part of the Melbourne Now exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre: @ngvmelbourne Australia, Melbourne from 24 March - 20 August 2023. Images @tomross.xyz
Talk, paddle, read, perform, boat and display are some of the verbs I've been using this week.
#melbournedesignweek
#melbourneartbookfair
Photos @tobiastitzphotography@ngvmelbourne
