Visual Artist: Dan Bell, Isadora Vaughan , Madeline Kidd , Helen Grogan, Virginia Overall, Kym Maxwell, Jordan Marani, Ash Kilmartin, Claire Lambe, Christopher L. G. Hill, Sean Peoples
Music/ Sound artist: People Person, Wet KIss, Waterfall Person
Performance Artists: Julian Williams, Lane Cormick, Kiera Brew Kurec
Curator: Kym Maxwell Publication Designer: Ziga Testen Graphic Designer: Ross Paxman Writer: Harriet Morgan, Lisa Radford and Kym Maxwell
PUBLICATION The ISBN registered publication ‘Industrial Estate’ was designed by Ziga Testen. It is a 12 page boardsheet newsprint publication with 2 page Risoprint pull out essays by Harriet Morgan, Lisa Radford and Kym Maxwell. Edition of 500.
MEDIA - The exhbition was held in the Industrial Estate of Heidelberg West, funded by Bunyule Council. It recieved 500 visitors in 3 days with an opening event perofrmances. It was reviewed on 3RRR and recieved a double page promotion in The Age.
Industrial Estate Site: 12 Kolara Road, Heidelberg West
Date and times: 10am – 5 pm, 10th of January to 13th of January 2014
Opening night and performances: Friday January 10th from 5pm till late
Curatorial Premise:
The idea of a society without qualities is an indictment of a state that fails to provide a life of quality for its citizens. A society without qualities is an example of capitalisms’ ambition now free to claim victory over the people. And so the idea of the state as a caretaker and an educator, an alleviator of pain, is no longer believable 1. What happens when capitalism consumes the values it fought to free through the union of soul and economy? A ‘society without qualities … we are waiting for it, waiting … without fascination or anxiety’ (Ulrika Flink). Yet with innumerable groups living on the social margins and micro-businesses working at scales that exist on the fringes whose lives are affected. Within this site for exhibition (the industrial estate of Heidelberg West) the hypothesis is apparent, a marginal group living adjacent the businesses working for the economy, creating materials and services for this capitalist agenda
A group exhibition ’Industrial Estate’ is presented within an industrial furniture warehouse on the outskirts of Heidelberg West converses around the themes of production and a dystopian community that sets its gaze fearlessly at the modern city setting the agenda.
