One of our group exploring the exhibition WILAM BIIK at Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, Dandenong, curated by Wurundjeri, Dja Dja Wurrung and Ngurai Illum-Wurrung woman Stacie Piper.
Every month, we run an 'Art Walk' and invite our audiences to join us for a visit to see another creative space, art exhibition, or display - inside or outside. Join us at the ACCA in October to see James Nguyen/Open Glossary.
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James Nguyen: Open Glossary is presented as part of the Copyright Agency Partnerships series of new commissions supporting mid-career and established visual artists to develop and present a major new body of work. With an ongoing commitment to collaborative models of making, James Nguyen has expanded the solo commissioning focus, working with Tamsen Hopkinson (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Pāhauwera), Budi Sudarto, Kate ten Buuren (Taungurung) and Chris Xu on a series of new polyphonic installations presented throughout ACCA’s galleries, as well as an evolving multilingual queer glossary for ACCA’s Digital Wing.
Open Glossary explores the capacity of language to both bind and divide us. Alert to the liveness of lexicons, the exhibition emphasises the ways that words and syntax constantly evolve and transform, marking our connections to others across the specifics of time and place. Conversation is key to Nguyen’s approach, positioning his personal experience and perspective in dialogue with others – family, friends, Vietnamese diasporic and LGBTIQA+ communities, the art world and its institutions.
Learn more —> here.
Credit: Photograph of one of our monthly Art Walk attendees admiring the exhibition, WILAM BIIK, at Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, Dandenong, curated by Wurundjeri, Dja Dja Wurrung and Ngurai Illum-Wurrung woman Stacie Piper, last month. Explore a 3-D tour of the show at TarraWarra Museum of Art where it was first staged (here), and an extensive playlist of information —> here.
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Plan/meeting location:
—Start at ACCA, 111 Sturt Street Southbank VIC 3006 @10:55am for 11:00 am entry
—End ACCA at approx. 1:00 pm
Press the ‘JOIN THE GUEST LIST’ button below to register for free.
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